English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Maori whare (house).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

whare (plural whares)

  1. A Maori hut.
    • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store:
      We were on the brow of the hill, and below us there was a whare roofed in with corrugated iron.

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Maori edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Polynesian *fale, from Proto-Central-Eastern Oceanic *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɸa.re/, [fɐ.ɾɛ]

Noun edit

whare

  1. house
  2. building
    Kua tūtakina te whare none i Tūranga nei, kua hokona te whare me te whenua, ko ngā none kua hoki anō ki te kākahu o te ao.
    The nunnery here in Gisborne has closed and the land and building have been sold, the nuns have returned to worldly garments
  3. people in a house
    E te whare nei, titiro tāua ki te tangata nei.
    People of this house, let us look at this man.
  4. suit (cards)

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Descendants edit

  • English: whare