haka
suomi-englanti sanakirjahaka englanniksi
dog, pawl
enclosure, natural enclosure
hook
catch
timber hitch
becket
carbon monoxide
A group dance of New Zealand|New Zealand's Maori people featuring rhythmic chanting, vigorous facial and arm movements, and foot stamping. Traditionally a dance, today it is also performed to welcome guests, as a mark of respect at occasions such as commemorations and funerals, as a challenge to opposing teams at sports events, and for artistic purposes.
(quote-book), publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty|year=1838|volume=I|page=81|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/newzealandbeingn00polapage/n104/mode/1up|oclc=1003989957|passage=After each of my retinue were presented to the chief, partaking of the honour of the ougi, or salutation, the hákà, or dance of welcome, was performed; this was commenced by our entertainers, who placed themselves in an extended line, in ranks four deep. This dance, to a stranger witnessing it for the first time, is calculated to excite the most alarming fears; (..)
(quote-journal), 15 London|Waterloo Place|month=January|year=1876|volume=XXXIII|issue=193|page=65|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzMFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA65|oclc=561748243|passage=A "Haka" is the native dance, answering to the ''corroboree'' of the Australian aboriginals, and we were anxious to see it. (..) Later in the evening, however, the complaisant Herekiekie entertained a small and select party at a "Haka" in his "whare" or house (pronounced wharry). It was exactly what I expected. The performers, all male, stood in a row, one, slightly advanced, acting as fugleman. They shouted and gesticulated with the most hideous and revolting gestures, grimaces, and yells.
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(quote-book) But ''hakas'' are not restricted to war; they are also used as a welcome to strangers, as part of a funeral, or as part of various celebrations and ceremonies.
(quote-book); Wanganui, New Zealand: H. Ireson Jones|year=1870|page=274|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=LcERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA274|oclc=57701969|passage=They hoisted him up to the ridge pole and lighted the fire; they began to haka, when they were tired of that they sang songs, (..)
(quote-book) &91;page 214&93; She hakaed for some time, and all the people were quite in love with her.
(l) (gloss)
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to go
(syn)
to mark with a check mark (usually with the preposition (m))
(inflection of)
(ja-romanization of)
(cln) four
to paint, to smear(R:ki:Armstrong)Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). ''Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom'', pp. 64, 229.
to propitiate by gift
to bribe
(infl of) (q)
(l) dance
(alt form)
(infl of)
(nn-former)
(senseid) (alt form)
(n-g)
, (m), or (m) to hook (attach with something hook-like)
to get hooked (stuck on something hook-like, not figuratively)