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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English Ballarat.

Proper noun edit

Pararata

  1. Ballarat (a city in Victoria, Australia)
    Ko ētahi Pākehā i waimārie te kiteatanga e rātou ētahi kōhatu he kōura katoa i te takiwā kari kōura i Pararata.
    Some Pākehā were lucky to find some rocks which were pure gold in the gold field area of Ballarat.

References edit

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