(复同单, 或Maoris)
1
- a member of the aboriginal people of New Zealand毛利人。
2
- mass noun the Polynesian language of this people, with about 100,000 speakers毛利语。
- of or relating to the Maoris or their language(与)毛利人(有关)的; (与)毛利语(有关)的。
The Maoris arrived in New Zealand as part of a series of waves of migration from Tahiti, probably from the 9th century onwards. They lost large amounts of land in the colonization of New Zealand by the British, in particular after the Maori Wars of the mid 19th century, and now number about 280,000.
词源
the name in Maori.