poaka
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Maori poaka (“pig”).
Noun edit
poaka (plural poakas)
- (New Zealand, among the Maori people) A pig.
- 1904, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives..., New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 62:
- When I write that scores of houses have been burnt, whole villages renovated, kaingas fenced in, poakas and dogs fenced out […]
Maori edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Polynesian *puaka.
Noun edit
poaka