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tikangas

tikangas is the plural of tikanga.

Meaning of tikanga

Noun

tikanga (countable and uncountable, plural tikangas or tikanga)

  1. (New Zealand) A custom, value or principle, especially of the Maori people.
    • Male primogeniture was still the concept most often ratified by tikanga.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 236

Questions about tikangas

What is tikangas the plural of?
Tikangas is the plural of tikanga.

Words near tikangas in the dictionary

  1. tikam tikam
  2. tikam-tikam
  3. Tikamgarh
  4. tikanga
  5. tikanga Maori
  6. tikangas
  7. tikas
  8. Tikay
  9. tike
  10. tikes
  11. Tikhon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tikangas (page history and authors); tikanga (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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