whānau

whānau (usually uncountable, plural whānau or whānaus)

1. (New Zealand) Alternative spelling of whanau.
   • 2014, Tina Makereti, “He Taonga te Reo: How ngā Kupu Māori Contribute to New Zealand Writing in English”, in Jolisa Gracewood, Susanna Andrew, editors, Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015, Auckland: Auckland University Press, →ISBN, page 119:

     It was the 1880s, so timber houses also featured, but here the whānau were travelling to tribal lands and building makeshift whare to camp in.

Proto-Polynesian *faanau ~ *fānau “to give birth” (compare with Hawaiian hānau and Tokelauan fānau) from Proto-Oceanic *pañaʀu from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pañaʀu.^[1][2] Compare also parallels between Malay beranak ~ peranak “to give birth” with peranakan “womb; people of mixed descent” in the same language family with regards to sense of kinship.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːnaʉ/, /ˈɸaːnaʉ/

whānau (passive whānaua)

1. to give birth
2. (intransitive) to be born

whānau

1. an extended family; a group of family members

• whanaunga (“relative”)

• → English: whanau

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “whānau”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 572
• “whānau” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.