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Maoritanga

Maoritanga noun: māori culture, traditions, and way of life; Maoriness.

Noun

Maoritanga (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) Māori culture, traditions, and way of life; Maoriness.
    • ‘But I'm Maori. And that's the way I feel too, the way you said, that that the Maoritanga has got lost in the way I live.’1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 62

Forms of Maoritanga

alternative formMāoritanga

Origin of Maoritanga

Borrowed from Māori Māoritanga.

Questions about Maoritanga

What does Maoritanga mean?
Maoritanga means māori culture, traditions, and way of life; Maoriness.
What part of speech is Maoritanga?
Maoritanga is a noun.

Words near Maoritanga in the dictionary

  1. Maoriland
  2. Maorilander
  3. Maorilanders
  4. Maoriness
  5. Maoris
  6. Maoritanga
  7. maormor
  8. maormors
  9. Maors
  10. maos
  11. Maotai

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