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tangis

tangis is the plural of tangi.

Meaning of tangi

Noun

tangi (plural tangis or tangi)

  1. (New Zealand) A Maori dirge, or song for the dead.
  2. (New Zealand) Funeral rites; a funeral ceremony, a tangihanga.
    • He goes on to say that the Government, The Maori Sanitary Councils, and the Native Land Court have endeavoured to prevent Maori tangis lasting for more than three or four days […].1906, The District Court and Magistrate's Court Reports
  3. (New Zealand) Crying, wailing, especially when seeing someone after a long absence.

Questions about tangis

What is tangis the plural of?
Tangis is the plural of tangi.

Words near tangis in the dictionary

  1. tangily
  2. tanginess
  3. tanging
  4. Tangipahoa
  5. Tangipahoa Parish
  6. tangis
  7. Tangiwai
  8. tangiwaite
  9. Tangjamba
  10. tangka
  11. tangkas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tangis (page history and authors); tangi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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