mauri

Borrowed from Maori mauri.

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʉriː/

mauri (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) life force, according to Maori beliefs

• -arium, Miura, Umari, Urmia

From Proto-Oceanic *maqurip, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ma-qudip, from *qudip, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qudip, from Proto-Austronesian *qudip.

mauri

1. to live[1]

mauri

1. inflection of maurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

mauri

1. genitive singular of maur
2. partitive singular of maur
3. illative singular of maur

From German Maure.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑu̯ri/, [ˈmɑ̝u̯ri]
• Rhymes: -ɑuri
• Syllabification^(key): mau‧ri

mauri

1. (historical) Moor (member of a North African ethnic group)

• “mauri”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• muria, rumia

mauri

1. hello

maurī

1. inflection of maurus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

• mauri in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mauri”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mauri”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

mauri m

1. nominative/vocative plural of maurs

From Proto-Polynesian *maquri, from Proto-Oceanic *maqurip, from *qurip, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qudip, from Proto-Austronesian *qudip (“life, alive”).

mauri

1. life principle; metaphorical soul; source of life
   • 2006, Joanne Barker, Sovereignty Matters, page 208:

     In 1979 a gathering of elder at the Waananga kaumatua affirmed te reo Maori “Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Maori” the language is the life principle of Maori mana.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → English: mauri

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

From Proto-Oceanic *mauʀi, variant of *mawiʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)wiʀi, from *wiʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *wiʀi.

• IPA^(key): /mauri/

mauri

1. left

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *wiRi