wiri

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiɹ̠i/

wiri

1. shoulder

• Page 75 of Zuckermann, Ghil'ad, Emma Richards and the Barngarla (2021), Mangiri Yarda (Healthy Country: Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature), Adelaide: Revivalistics Press.

wiri

1. two

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋi.ri/
• Hyphenation: wi‧ri

Possibly borrowed from Sranan Tongo wiwiri.

wiri m (plural wiri's, diminutive wirietje n)

1. (slang) marijuana, weed

Compare wiri-wiri.

wiri m (plural wiri's, no diminutive)

1. a scraper ideophone made of a metal bar, traditionally used in music from Curaçao

From Bantu; cf. Nyaturu mw-iri.

• IPA^(key): /wiɺi/

wiri m (masc. plural wiribii, fem. wiriko, fem. plural wiribee) (Note: the form after a determiner is wiri)

1. root (masc. = a thin root, fem. = a tuber)

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Hawaiian wili and Samoan vili.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiri/ [ˈwiɾi]

wiri (passive wiria or wirihia)

1. (transitive) to bore, twist, drill
2. (intransitive) to tremble, shiver, shudder

• kōwiri
• whakawiri
• wiriwiri

wiri

1. gimlet, auger, drill, screwdriver, anything for boring holes
2. (music) trembling of the hands in Maori singing to indicate the interface between the mind and the body (the wiri represents the shimmering of the ocean water, the heat waves rising from the ground, the wind rustling the tree leaves)

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

Borrowed from Dutch wiel.

wiri

1. wheel, gear