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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori h?ngi.

Noun

hangi (countable and uncountable, plural hangis or hangi)

1. (New Zealand) A traditional M?ori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven.
2. (New Zealand, uncountable) Food cooked in this way.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ghani, Hagin, ahing, anigh, ghani

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (hangi), ????? (hangi, “which”), from older ????? (kang?), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kank?, “which”), from Proto-Turkic [Term?], a derivation from the interrogative stem *ka-. Ultimately cognate to Turkish hani (“where”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (kanu, “what, which”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kay?, “what, which”), Bashkir ????? (qayhï, “which”), Kyrgyz ??? (kay, “what, which”), but its relation to the original word is obscure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??i/

Pronoun

hangi

1. (interrogative) which

Declension

Usage notes

• Note: Declension of the singular form requires hangi-si, which literally translates to “which one, which of”.

Derived terms

• hangisi
• herhangi

Related terms

• hani
• kanca (“whithersoever, whither”)

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori hongi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??.i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Noun

hongi (plural hongis)

1. The Maori greeting of touching noses.

Verb

hongi (third-person singular simple present hongis, present participle hongiing, simple past and past participle hongied)

1. To perform the Maori greeting of touching noses.

Anagrams

• Gihon, ohing

Japanese

Romanization

hongi

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Maori

Noun

hongi

1. The Maori greeting of touching noses.

Verb

hongi

1. To perform the Maori greeting of touching noses.

Rapa Nui

Verb

hongi

1. smell