different between mauka vs manuka

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).

Adverb

mauka (not comparable)

1. (Hawaii) inland, towards the mountains.

See also

• makai

Etymology 2

From Aymara mauka (“mauka (Mirabilis expansa)”).

Noun

mauka (plural maukas)

1. The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa, which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.
2. One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.

Synonyms

• chago

Anagrams

• Kamau, Makua

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Hawaiian mauka (“towards the mountain”).

Adverb

mauka

1. towards the mountains

See also

• makai

Icelandic

Etymology

From mauk (“mash, purée”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?møy?ka/
• Rhymes: -øy?ka

Verb

mauka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative maukaði, supine maukað)

1. to mash, purée

Conjugation

Latvian

Etymology

Maybe related to maukt.

Pronunciation

Noun

mauka f (4th declension)

1. (colloquial, derogatory, vulgar) indecent, dissolute woman; prostitute, whore

Declension

Synonyms

• ielasmeita
• prostit?ta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori m?nuka.

Noun

manuka (countable and uncountable, plural manukas)

1. Leptospermum scoparium, a shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia.
   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"

     There was nothing to be seen but wave after wave of tussock grass - patched with purple orchids and manuka bushes covered with thick spider webs.

2. (uncountable) The wood of this plant.

Synonyms

• Leptospermum scoparium
• tea tree

Derived terms

• manuka honey

Translations