kiekie
English
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Alternative forms
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editNoun
editkiekie
- Freycinetia banksii, a high-climbing shrub of New Zealand.
Afrikaans
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editkiekie (plural kiekies)
- diminutive of kiek
Etymology 2
editFrom kiekie (“diminutive of kiek”).
Noun
editkiekie (plural kiekies, diminutive kiekietjie)
- photo; photograph (usually taken by an amateur photographer)
- (figuratively) brief but very vivid description through writing or spoken words
Synonyms
edit- (photograph): foto
Maori
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *kiekie (“Freycinetia species”) from Proto-Oceanic *kiRe-kiRe (“pandanus”) from Proto-Oceanic *kiRe from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiRay.
Noun
editkiekie
- A vine used by the Maori for food and as material for mats, Freycinetia banksii
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- English terms borrowed from Maori
- English terms derived from Maori
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals
- en:Pandanales order plants
- Afrikaans terms suffixed with -ie
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans nouns
- Afrikaans diminutive nouns
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Oceanic
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Maori lemmas
- Maori nouns