whare wānanga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori whare wānanga (“house of knowledge, [traditional] school”).

Noun

whare wānanga (plural whare wānanga)

  1. (New Zealand, historical) Formerly, a type of traditional Maori school.

See also

Maori

Noun

whare wānanga

  1. a type of traditional Maori school.
  2. university, polytechnic
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.