New Zealand

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نِيُوزِيلَانْدَا

نِيُوزِيلَنْدَا

نِيُوزِيلَانْدَة

نِيُوزِيلَنْدَة

→ Arabic: نِيُوزِيلَانْدَا (niyūzīlāndā), نِيُوزِيلَنْدَا (niyūzīlandā), نِيُوزِيلَانْدَة (niyūzīlānda), نِيُوزِيلَنْدَة (niyūzīlanda)

নিউজিল্যান্ড

→ Bengali: নিউজিল্যান্ড (niujilênḍ)

→ Chinese: 紐西蘭／纽西兰 (Niǔxīlán)

→ Danish: New Zealand

→ Fijian: Niusiladi

→ Hawaiian: Nukilani

נְיוּ זִילַנְדּ

→ Hebrew: נְיוּ זִילַנְדּ (nyú zíland)

→ Hebrew: נְיוּ זִילַנְדּ (nyú zíland)

→ Hindi: न्यू ज़ीलंड (nyū zīlaṇḍ), न्यूज़ीलैंड (nyūzīlaiṇḍ), न्यूज़ीलैण् (nyūzīlaiṇ)

→ Japanese: ニュージーランド (Nyū Jīrando)

→ Korean: 뉴질랜드 (nyujillaendeu)

→ Maori: Niu Tireni

→ Niuean: Niu Sila

→ Norwegian Bokmål: New Zealand

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: New Zealand

→ Pashto: نيوزيلنډ (nyuzelanḍ)

→ Persian: نِیوزیلَنْد (niyuziland)

→ Rarotongan: Nū Tireni

→ Samoan: Niu Sila

→ Swahili: Nyuzilandi

→ Thai: นิวซีแลนด์ (niu-sii-lɛɛn)

→ Tokelauan: Niu Hila

→ Tongan: Nuʻusila, Nuʻu Sila

نْیُوزی لَینْڈ

نْیُوزیلَینْڈ

→ Urdu: نْیُوزی لَینْڈ (nyūzī lainḍ), نْیُوزیلَینْڈ (nyūzī-lainḍ)

→ Yiddish: ניו־זילאַנד (nyu-ziland)

Calque of Dutch Nieuw-Zeeland (“new Zeeland”), (nieuw calqued as new), Zeeland calqued as the respelling Zealand to parallel the historical exonym, after the Dutch settlement in Batavia, which in turn had been named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, from Middle Dutch sêelant, equivalent to zee (“sea”) + land (“land”).

cal

A country and archipelago in Oceania, to the east of Australia. Official name: New Zealand. Capital: Wellington.


Tokelau

Borrowed from Tokelauan Tokelau, from Tokelauan tokelau (“north wind”), from Proto-Polynesian *tokelau (“northwesterly”). Compare Maori tokerau (“north”); Rapa Nui tokerau (“wind”).

Three atolls forming a dependent territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.

تُوكِيلَاو

a territory of New Zealand in the Pacific


Niue

From Niuean Niuē (“behold the coconut palm”), from niu (“coconut”) + ē (“o (vocative particle)”).

Republic of Niue
Republic of Niue#English

An island and country in Polynesia in Oceania, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand. Official name: Republic of Niue. Capital: Alofi.


Cook Islands

An archipelago and self-governing country in Oceania, in free association with New Zealand.


kiwi

en-noun

kiwi (countable and uncountable, plural kiwi or kiwis)

→ Catalan: kiwi

→ Dutch: kiwi

→ French: kiwi

→ German: Kiwi

→ Korean: 키위 (kiwi)

→ Polish: kiwi

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→ Portuguese: quivi, quiuí, kiwi (unadapted)

A flightless bird of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand.

Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (“person from New Zealand”).


Maori

en-noun

Maori (plural Maori or Maoris or (obsolete) Maories)

Maori (plural)
Maoris (plural)
Maories (obsolete plural)

New Zealand, approximating Māori pronunciation

Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.

bor

A member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

Maori

member of the Maori people of New Zealand


Cook Islander

A person from the Cook Islands or of descent of the Cook Islands.


New Zealander

A person from New Zealand or of New Zealand descent.

Nieu-Seelander

a person from New Zealand or of New Zealand descent


Aotearoa

/ˌɑː.əʊ.teəˈrəʊ.ə/

/aʊˌtæɪ.əˈrɐʉ.ə/

Borrowed from Maori Aotearoa (“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”), see there for more.

bor+

Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistens like a pearl at the bottom of the world [...].

1981, Tim Finn, Split Enz (lyrics and music), “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”:

The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877:

You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.

2019, Kamaka Pili, “Ep. 37: Manulani Aluli Meyer - Hawaiian Epistemology” (4:35 from the start), in Aloha Authentic, via YouTube:

There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.

2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 10:

New Zealand vaccinated at least 2.5% of its people on Saturday as the government tries to accelerate inoculations and live with COVID-19, preliminary health ministry data showed.
Through an array of strategies, gimmicks and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's encouragement through the day, 124,669 shots were administered by late in the day in a country of 4.9 million.
"We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service. "Let's go for 150 [thousand]. Let's go big or go home."

2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-10-16, Asia Pacific:

(chiefly New Zealand) New Zealand, a country in Oceania; especially seen in a Polynesian or pre-colonial context.


shilling

From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.

look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence

A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

(historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.


moa

Borrowed from Maori moa, from Proto-Polynesian *moa (“fowl”).

The moas (order Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand are likewise extinct but almost certainly some still survived when Tasman first sighted the islands in 1642.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 29:

For instance, the little bush moa fed nearly exclusively on forest vegetation, whereas the heavy-footed moa was a grazer in open vegetation habitats.

2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world.


Enzedder

Spelling out of NZ, the abbreviation of New Zealand, + -er, denoting a native of a place.


te reo

Borrowed from Maori te reo (“Māori”, literally “the language”).

Currently, many Kiwis are learning te reo.


Anzac Day

April 25, a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand that originally commemorated the sacrifices made by members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and now honours people from those countries who have served in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.

澳新軍團日

public holiday in Australia and New Zealand on April 25


Enzed

Phonetic respelling of the abbreviation NZ.


Kiwi

en-adj

Kiwi (comparative more Kiwi, superlative most Kiwi)

more Kiwi (comparative)
most Kiwi (superlative)

From kiwi, a flightless bird native to and a national symbol of New Zealand.

The two Kiwi brothers who spent time in a Thailand prison after allegedly wrestling an officer to the ground and taking his gun, have returned to New Zealand.

2024 July 13, Poppy Clark, “Kiwi brothers back in country after spending time in Thailand prison”, in stuff.co.nz/:


Established in the United Kingdom as the first emergency service number in the world, initially chosen because of its suitability at a time of rotary-dial telephones.

I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?
You mean 999...
I mean 999!
That's the American one!
Yeah!

2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2

When you call 999 in the UK, the operator usually answers the phone with "Emergency. Which service?"

The telephone number for emergency services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Burma, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and the Seychelles.

三条九 (saam¹ tiu⁴ gau², literally “triple nine”)


florin

From Middle English florin, floren, from Old French florin, from Italian fiorino (“little flower”). Doublet of fiorino.

A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.


tapu

en-noun

tapu (countable and uncountable, plural tapus)

Borrowed from Maori tapu. Doublet of kapu.

Spies were sent to test the Moriori’s mettle by violating tapu & despoiling holy sites.

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:


tapu

en-verb

tapu (third-person singular simple present tapus, present participle tapuing, simple past and past participle tapued)

tapus (present singular third-person)
tapuing (participle present)
tapued (participle past)
tapued (past)

Tapuing seeds and fields are types of the English laws for protecting out-door property; women tapued to men is matrimony; tapuing sick persons is analogous to the quarantine orders against lepers, the plague and the yellow fever.

1859, Arthur Saunders Thomson, The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present, page 105:


ariki

Borrowed from Maori ariki, Proto-Polynesian *qariki.

A person having a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.


Land of the Long White Cloud

the Land of the Long White Cloud (canonical)

Loose calque of Maori Aotearoa, from ao (“cloud, daytime, world”), tea (“white”), and roa (“long, tall”). Allegedly the first English-language mention was in the February, 1916, New Zealand School Journal (King, 2004). Probably a reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after an ocean voyage.


Gladstone

Any of places of the same name.
An area near Levin, New Zealand.


cauri

An extremely tall tree found exclusively in New Zealand, the kauri.


half-crown

From its value of half of the crown (five-shilling) coin.

[…] though we play but half-crowns, you know you may bet half guineas with him.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 249:

Keeping, therefore, an eye to the main chance, stimulated by the best possible motive, Helen emptied her purse on the bed, in such a manner, as to allow a stray half sovereign to escape, when she added the shillings and half-crowns to the little heap, and said, in a tremulous voice, "Here is my money."

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 10:

Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:

This is a masterly work of condensation, omitting nothing of importance and providing a most readable book that for a modest half-crown is incredibly good value.

1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: Great Western. By Cecil J. Allen, Ian Allan. 2s 6d.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:

(historical) A pre-decimal coin used in Britain, Ireland and New Zealand, equivalent to 30 pence or two shillings and six pence.

Half crown (British coin)
Half crown (Irish coin)


God Save the Queen

The national anthem of the United Kingdom when the current monarch is female.


God Save the Queen

(UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) An expression of one’s patriotism and hope for the long life of the monarch, especially in her presence.

(UK) A formal statement at the end of many proclamations issued by the UK's queen or in her name.

The King is dead! God save the Queen!

(UK) A formal declaration following the death of a reigning monarch when the next monarch is female.


Waitangi Day

The national day of New Zealand and a public holiday held each year on February 6 to celebrate the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document. The Treaty made New Zealand a part of the British Empire, guaranteed Māori rights to their land and gave Māori the rights of British citizens.


land down under

Referring to Australia's and New Zealand's location at the southern hemisphere, when observed at a map or a globe.

"Do you come from the land down under?"


Cook Islands Maori

The official language of the Cook Islands.


Rarotongan

Cook Islands Maori, the official language of the Cook Islands.


God Save the King

(UK) A formal statement at the end of many proclamations issued by the King or in his name.


wairua

(New Zealand) A spirit associated with a person or thing, according to Māori beliefs.


noa

The power of the spoken word has meant that some dangerous things are not mentioned by their "real" names, but by noa terms, like gullfot (literally "golden foot") for "wolf", or tallbjörn (literally "pine bear"), granoxe (literally: "fir ox"), trädräv (literally: "tree fox") or granälg (literally: "fir elk") for "squirrel".

(New Zealand, among the Maori) Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo.


New Zealand dollar

en-noun

New Zealand dollar (plural New Zealand dollars)


South Islander

A person from the South Island, New Zealand.


North Islander

A person from North Island, New Zealand.


Zealandia

Te Riu-a-Māui

the hills and valleys of Maui; Maori name, meaning

A nearly submerged continent or microcontinent that sank after breaking away from Australia many millions of years ago.


New Zealand English

The form of the English language used in New Zealand.


rangatira

A hereditary Māori leader of a kinship group.


wananga

Borrowed from Maori wānanga (“traditional knowledge”).

(New Zealand) A school in New Zealand that teaches native Maori knowledge, instituted by the Education Act of 1990.


Cheltenham

A neighbourhood and beach near Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand.


Mihanere

Borrowed from Maori mihinare, from English missionary.

(New Zealand, archaic, religion) A convert to Christianity.


Chatham Islands

Named after the Earl of Chatham by the captain of HMS Chatham in 1791.

an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 680 kilometres off the east coast of New Zealand, and territorially part of New Zealand.


Chatham Island

The biggest island in the Chatham Islands group off the east coast of New Zealand.


rangatiratanga

(New Zealand, Maori) chieftainship; sovereignty


New Zealand bellbird

New Zealand bellbird (plural New Zealand bellbirds)

Anthornis melanura, a greenish passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, with a distinctive bell-like song.


New Zealand flax

Plants native to New Zealand with fiber in the leaves which was formerly much used for rope and other purposes; Phormium tenax and Phormium colensoi or Phomium cookianum.


Wellywood

(informal) The film industry located in Wellington, New Zealand, originally formed by the filming of the Lord of the Rings movies.


kawanatanga

Borrowed from Maori kāwanatanga; the first part of the word is a borrowed form of English governor.

It would seem unthinkable that the granting of kawanatanga was other than permanent if Maori were to be subject to it.

2013, F. M. Brookfield, Waitangi and Indigenous Rights:


Matariki

Borrowed from Maori Matariki, in turn derived from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *matafiti, Proto-Eastern Polynesian *matasiti
One Maori folk etymology claims it represents ngā + mata + o + te + ariki + o + Tāwhirimātea, meaning "the eyes of the [wind] god Tāwhirimātea". In Māori legend, the Pleiades star cluster which it is named after was from Tāwhirimātea's plucked eyes.
Cognate with Hawaiian makahiki.

af

The season, in late May or early June, when the Pleiades star cluster first rises, treated as the beginning of the new year by the Maori.


New Zealandize

en-verb

New Zealandize (third-person singular simple present New Zealandizes, present participle New Zealandizing, simple past and past participle New Zealandized)

New Zealandizes (present singular third-person)
New Zealandizing (participle present)
New Zealandized (participle past)
New Zealandized (past)


NZer

(informal) Of or pertaining to New Zealand.


NZer

(informal) A citizen or resident of New Zealand; a New Zealander


Ross Dependency

An Antarctic region claimed as a dependent territory by New Zealand, lying between 160° E and 150° W, and south of 60° S.


Southlander

The University of Canterbury has won $500,000 to fund research into why Southlanders roll their Rs.

2016 November 4, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

A native or inhabitant of Southland in New Zealand.


All Black

A player in the New Zealand national rugby union team


Black Cap

New Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.
The value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.

2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:

(cricket) A player for the New Zealand national cricket team


RNZAF

Royal New Zealand Air Force
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(New Zealand, military, aviation) Initialism of Royal New Zealand Air Force.


Cape Farewell

A headland in New Zealand, the most northerly point on the South Island.


ANZUS

Blend of AUS (“Australia”) + NZ (“New Zealand”) + US (“United States”).

blend

(geopolitics) A security treaty between Australia, New Zealand, and America for the Pacific region; particularly in naval affairs.


A variant of the British 999, originally selected as an appropriate number for rotary-dial telephones and adapted in New Zealand because the formatting on its pulse-dial system made 1 equivalent to 9 as processed by its British-made telecommunications equipment.

When you call 111 in New Zealand, the Spark operator usually answers the phone with "111 Emergency. Do you require fire, ambulance, or police?"

The telephone number for emergency services in New Zealand and Nauru.


New Zealand studies

(humanities) The study of New Zealand, New Zealanders, and Zealandic culture.


tekoteko

The core of the pā, found on the cliff corner, has been reconstructed in recent years to include a traditional Māori fence and a tekoteko.

2021 January 22, Mina Kerr-Lazenby, “Secret NZ: The historic pā site which lies just north of Auckland's Castor Bay”, in Stuff NZ, archived from the original on 2021-01-25:


tino rangatiratanga

Borrowed from Maori tino rangatiratanga.

(New Zealand, Maori) self-determination; absolute sovereignty (of the Maori people)


ANZPB

A New Zealand Prayer Book
w:A New Zealand Prayer Book

(Anglicanism) Initialism of A New Zealand Prayer Book.