100+Maori+words

The marae

 * [|Hui] - a meeting of any kind, conference, gathering
 * [|Marae] - the area for formal discourse in front of a meeting house or applied to a whole marae complex, including meeting house, dining hall, forecourt, etc.
 * Haere mai- Welcome! Enter!
 * Nau mai- Welcome!
 * Tangihanga - funeral ceremonies, when body is mourned on a marae
 * [|Tangi] - short for the above or to cry, to mourn
 * [|Karanga] - the ceremony of calling to the guests to welcome them to enter the marae
 * [|Manuhiri] - guests, visitors
 * [|Tangata whenua] - original people belonging to a place, local people, hosts
 * [|Whaikōrero] - the art and practice of speech making
 * [|Kaikōrero] - or kaiwhai kōrero speaker
 * [|Haka] - chant with dance for the purpose of challenge;
 * [|Waiata] - song or chant which follows speech
 * [|Koha] - gift, present
 * [|Whare nui] - meeting house; in writing this is sometimes run together as one word – wharenui
 * [|Whare whakairo] - carved meeting house
 * [|Whare kai] - dining hall
 * [|Whare paku] - lavatory, toilet
 * [|Whare horoi] - ablution block, bathroom

Concepts

 * [|Aroha] compassion, tenderness, sustaining love
 * [|Ihi] power, authority, essential force
 * [|Mana] authority, power; secondary meaning: reputation, influence
 * [|Manaakitanga] respect for hosts or kindness to guests, to entertain, to look after
 * [|Mauri] hidden essential life force or a symbol of this
 * [|Noa] safe from tapu, non-sacred, not tabooed
 * [|Raupatu] confiscate, take by force
 * [|Rohe] boundary, a territory of an iwi or hapū
 * [|Taihoa] to delay, to wait, to hold off to allow maturation of plans, etc.
 * [|Tapu] sacred, not to be touched, to be avoided because sacred, taboo
 * [|Tiaki] to care for, look after, guard ( kaitiaki – guardian, trustee)
 * [|Taonga] treasured possessions or cultural items, anything precious
 * [|Tino rangatiratanga] the highest possible independent chiefly authority, paramount authority, sometimes used for sovereignty
 * [|Tūrangawaewae] a place to stand, a place to belong to, a seat or location of identity
 * [|Wehi] to be held in awe
 * [|Whakapapa] genealogy, to recite genealogy, to establish kin connections
 * [|Whenua] land, homeland, country; also afterbirth, placenta

People and their groups

 * [|Ariki] person of high inherited rank from senior lines of descent, male or female
 * [|Hapū] clan, tribe, independent section of a people; modern usage – sub-tribe; to be born
 * [|Iwi] people, nation; modern usage – tribe; bones
 * [|Kaumātua] elder or elders, senior people in a kin group
 * [|Ngāi Tātou] a way of referring to everyone present – we all
 * [|Pākehā] this word is not an insult; its derivation is obscure; it is the Māori word for people living in New Zealand of British/European origin; originally it would not have included, for example, Dalmatians, Italians, Greeks, Indians, Chinese, etc.
 * [|Rangatira] person of chiefly rank, boss, owner
 * [|Tama] son, young man, youth
 * [|Tamāhine] daughter
 * [|Tamaiti] one child
 * [|Tamariki] children
 * [|Tāne] man, husband, men, husbands
 * [|Teina/taina] junior relative, younger brother of a brother, younger sister of a sister
 * [|Tipuna/tupuna] ancestor
 * [|Tuahine] sister of a man
 * [|Tuakana] senior relative, older brother of a brother, older sister of a sister
 * [|Tungāne] brother of a sister
 * [|Wahine] woman, wife (wāhine women, wives)
 * [|Waka] canoe, canoe group (all the iwi and hapū descended from the crew of a founding waka)
 * [|Whāngai] fostered or adopted child, young person
 * [|Whānau] extended or non-nuclear family
 * [|Whanaunga] kin, relatives

Components of place names
Ordinary geographical features such as hills, rivers, cliffs, streams, mountains, the coast and adjectives describing them, such as small, big, little and long, are to be found in many place names. Here is a list so you can recognise them:
 * [|Au] current
 * [|Awa] river
 * [|Iti] small, little
 * [|Kai] one of the meanings of kai is food; in a place name it signifies a place where a particular food source was plentiful, e.g., Kaikōura, the place where crayfish (kōura) abounded and were eaten
 * Mānia plain
 * [|Manga] stream
 * [|Maunga] mountain
 * [|Moana] sea, or large inland 'sea', e.g., Taupō
 * [|Motu] island
 * [|Nui] large, big
 * [|One] sand, earth
 * [|Pae] ridge, range
 * [|Papa] flat
 * [|Poto] short
 * [|Puke] hill
 * [|Roa] long
 * [|Roto] lake; inside
 * [|Tai] coast, tide
 * [|Wai] water
 * [|Whanga] harbour, bay

Greetings

 * [|E noho rā] Goodbye (from a person leaving)
 * [|E haere rā] Goodbye (from a person staying)
 * [|Haere mai] Welcome! Come!
 * [|Hei konā rā] Goodbye (less formal)
 * [|Kia ora] Hi! (general informal greeting)
 * [|Mōrena] (Good) morning!
 * [|Nau mai] Welcome! Come!
 * [|Tēnā koe] formal greeting to one person
 * [|Tēnā kōrua] formal greeting to two people
 * [|Tēnā koutou] formal greeting to many people
 * [|Tēnā tātou katoa] formal inclusive greeting to everybody present, including oneself

Body parts

 * [|Arero] tongue
 * [|Ihu] nose
 * [|Kakī] neck
 * [|Kauae] chin
 * [|Kōpū] womb
 * [|Māhunga] hair (when used for hair must always be used in plural, indicated by ngā [the, plural]), head
 * [|Manawa] heart
 * [|Niho] teeth
 * [|Poho] chest (also called uma)
 * [|Puku] belly, stomach
 * [|Raho] testicles
 * [|Ringa] hand, arm
 * [|Toto] blood
 * [|Tou] anus
 * [|Turi] knee (also known as pona)
 * [|Tūtae] excrement, ordure
 * [|ū] breast (breast-milk is wai-ū)
 * [|Upoko] head
 * [|Ure] penis
 * [|Waewae] foot, feet, leg, legs