• Māori(preferred usage in Māori text and increasingly in New Zealand English text)
• Mäori(alternative usage in Māori text when macrons are not available)
• Maaori

Borrowed fromMaorimāori(“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”).Doublet ofMaoli.

• IPA^(key):/ˈmaʊɹi/

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• (New Zealand, anglicised)IPA^(key):/ˈmɐʉɹiː/,/ˈmæʊɹiː/
• (New Zealand, approximating Māori pronunciation)IPA^(key):[ˈmɑːɔɾi]

• Rhymes:-aʊɹi
• Hyphenation:Mao‧ri

Maori (pluralMaoriorMaorisor(obsolete)Maories)

1. A member of the indigenous people ofNew Zealand.

• The pluralMaori is now typically preferred, as the term is invariant in Māori.
• The formMāori (with a macron) is preferred by some New Zealanders as a more accurate reflection of the Maori self-designation (even when an Anglicised pronunciation is used). A double vowel is occasionally used instead of a macron; this was formerly more common, but has fallen out of use since theMāori Language Commission's decision to adopt the macron as the standard representation of Māori long vowels.

Maori

1. The language of these people.

• te reo
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Maori terms

Maori

1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori.

• Ngata Dictionary (new URL 2005 - it now has macrons, but it is initially unable to recognise them in a Maori-English search)
• ngā aho whakamāori-ā-tuhi (English and Maori Word Translator) formerly from the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of University of Otago, now based in Auckland
• He Kupu Rorohiko - Computer-related terms, by Te Taka Keegan - over 350 Maori-English words and phrases, followed by English-Maori
• Maori - English Dictionary: fromWebster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
• ISO 639-1 codemi,ISO 639-3 codemri(SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Maori,mri ⁠

eTexts at the NZ Electronic Text Centre

• A Dictionary of the Maori Language, by Herbert Williams (1957).
• Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, by Edward Tregear (1891).
• First Lessons in Maori, by Bishop William Williams (1930)

• Mario,Moira,Moria,Omari,morai,moria

• IPA^(key):/ma.ɔ.ʁi/

Maori m (pluralMaoriorMaoris,feminineMaorie)

1. a person ofMaori descent