hangi
See also: Hàn-gí
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hangi (countable and uncountable, plural hangis or hangi)
- (New Zealand) A traditional Māori pit oven, in which (suitably wrapped) raw food is lain on a base of heated stones. [from 19th c.]
- 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 134:
- The ovens were used to cook food in identical fashion to the Maori hangi and the Papuan stone ovens.
- (New Zealand, uncountable) Food cooked in this way. [from 20th c.]
- 2015, Anne Ashby, Worlds Collide:
- He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now.
Translations edit
Maori pit oven
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Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish هانكی (hangi), خانغی (hangı, “which”), from earlier قنغی (kangı), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qanqï, “which”), from Proto-Turkic *kan-, *kań-, a derivation from the interrogative stem *ka-. Ultimately cognate to Turkish hani (“where”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (kanu, “what, which”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kayū, “what, which”), Bashkir ҡайһы (qayhı, “which”), Kyrgyz кай (kay, “what, which”), but its relation to the original word is obscure.[1]
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Pronoun edit
hangi
- (interrogative) which
- Hangi ayda doğdun? ― Which month were you born in?
Usage notes edit
- Note: Declension of the singular form requires hangi-si, which literally translates to “which one, which of”.
Declension edit
Declension of hangi
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References edit
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ka:ñu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 632