Ngapuhi
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editNgapuhi (plural Ngapuhi)
- (New Zealand) A member of a Maori people (or iwi) of the Northland region of New Zealand. [from 19th c.]
- 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 71:
- The loss of the Nga Puhi in a battle of 1807 or 1808, which killed two of his brothers and many chiefly kin, was a formative moment in his life.