ngāwhā

See also: ngawha

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *ŋafaqa (“to burst open, to crack”) (compare with Tahitian ʻafā, Tongan ngafa, Hawaiian nahā).[1][2]

Verb

ngāwhā

  1. to burst open, to split
  2. to bloom

Noun

ngāwhā

  1. geyser, fumarole, hot spring

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → English: ngawha

Adjective

ngāwhā

  1. geothermal

References
  1. Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 282
  2. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ga-faqa”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online‎

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