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hapu: extended family
haere mai: welcome
haere ra: good bye
harakeke: flax, weaving with flax
hikoi: journey
hongi: traditional greeting by pressing noses
hui: meeting
iwi: tribal group
kaitiaki: guardian
karakia: prayers
kaumatua: elders
kaupapa: purpose or topic
kia ora: hello or "gidday"
kohanga reo: Maori language nest (pre-school)
kokiri: to prepare or pave the way, a training centre
kowhaiwhai: painting
maata waka: direct descendents of the people of all the waka
manawhenua: people with tribal affiliation with the area
Maoritanga: Maori culture
marae: a gathering place
neinei: mountain dracophyllum

pa: a fortified living place
raranga: weaving
raupatu: conquest
reo: Maori language
tamariki: children
tangata whenua: people of the land
taniwha: monster
taonga: things held dear, treasures
Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Maui: the top of the South Island (generally Nelson and Marlborough)
Te Wai Pounamu: the South Island
tikanga Maori: things Maori
tukutuku: woven wall panels
urupa: burial site
waha: gateway
wahi tapu: sacred sites
waiata: song, poetry
wairua: spiritualness
waka: traditional canoe, also can be the first canoes that brought the people to this country, as in 'the Tainui waka'
whakairo: carving
whakapapa: origins or genealogy
whanau: family
wharekai: cooking and eating house
wharenui: meeting house
whenua: land