harakeke

English

Alternative forms

  • haragag (historical, 1769)

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori harakeke.

Noun

harakeke (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) New Zealand flax, Phormium tenax

Māori

Etymology

The hara- segment is ultimately derived from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN. Cognate with Hawaiian hala and Malay pandan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈharakeke/ [ˈhɐɾɐkɛkɛ]

Noun

harakeke

  1. New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax)
    Unuhia te rito o te harakeke / Kei hea te kōmako e kō?
    If you remove the centre of the flax bush / Where then will the bellbird sing?

References

  • “harakeke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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.