haka

Etymology


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Noun

 * 1) A group dance of New Zealand's Maori people featuring rhythmic chanting, vigorous facial and arm movements, and foot stamping. Traditionally a war dance, today it is also performed to welcome guests, as a mark of respect at occasions such as commemorations and funerals, as a challenge to opposing teams at sports events, and for artistic purposes.

Translations

 * Arabic: هَاكَا
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 毛利人戰舞
 * Mandarin: 哈卡舞
 * Czech:
 * Galician: haka
 * Georgian: ჰაკა
 * German: Haka
 * Hebrew: האקה
 * Hindi: हाका
 * Japanese: ハカ
 * Korean: 하카
 * Maori: haka
 * Persian: هاکا
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хака
 * Ukrainian: га́ка

Verb

 * 1)  To perform the haka.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  dance of New Zealand's Maori people featuring rhythmic chanting, vigorous facial and arm movements, and foot stamping.

Etymology 1
Borrowed from dialectal (compare standard ).

Noun

 * 1) hook, clasp type of fastener

Etymology 2
Probably borrowed from, ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) corral, paddock, croft enclosure for livestock

Etymology 3
From dialectal.

Adjective

 * 1)  very good, skilled, masterful

Usage notes
Chiefly used in the verb phrase, meaning "to be (very) good at something, to be a master at". Only used predicatively in any case (never attributively).

Declension
Indeclinable.

Verb

 * 1) to go

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) shelf
 * 2) platform

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  chin

Etymology 2
See

Verb

 * 1) to pick with a pickaxe
 * 2) to mark with a check mark (usually with the preposition )

Numeral

 * 1)  four

Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kuhaka as an equivalent of English in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Verb
(infinitive )


 * 1) to paint, to smear
 * 2) to propitiate by gift
 * 3) to bribe

Etymology
From, from. Word is with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A war dance; a haka.

Usage notes
Used in the form.

Derived terms

 * (a ceremonial haka)
 * (the participants in the haka)

Related terms

 * (the proper term for the war dance)

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  dance

Etymology 2
To the noun.

Etymology 3
From.

Etymology 4
on with split infinitive. From, from , from.

Etymology
Related to the root of, from , referring to something pointing out.

Noun

 * 1) chin

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) chin, lower part of face

Verb

 * 1)  to hook (attach with something hook-like)
 * 2)  to get hooked (stuck on something hook-like, not figuratively)

Noun

 * 1) idea; opinion
 * 2) notion; understanding
 * 3) belief
 * 4) guess
 * 5) suspicion
 * 1) guess
 * 2) suspicion
 * 1) suspicion
 * 1) suspicion