From Proto-Polynesian *ŋafaqa (“to burst open, to crack”) (compare with Tahitian ʻafā, Tongan ngafa, Hawaiian nahā).[1][2]
ngāwhā
- to burst open, to split
- to bloom
ngāwhā
- geyser, fumarole, hot spring
ngāwhā
- geothermal
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 282
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ga-faqa”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- “ngāwhā” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
