What is oranga?
Oranga is a small residential suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. The name is from the Maori noun oranga, meaning ‘survivor, food, livelihood, welfare, health, living’. It used to be a state housing neighbourhood for low-income families, but it is rapidly gentrifying.
What do you mean by Motu?
/ (məʊˈtuː) / noun. Hinglish derogatory a fat man or boy.
What is akonga?
pupil noun. ākonga, tauira, koringo. apprentice noun.
What is my Whakapapa?
Whakapapa means genealogy, lineage, or line of descent. He mea nui ki a tātau ō tātau whakapapa: Our genealogies are important to us. At the center of Tuhono’s online network’s philosophy is an understanding of collective identity and the purpose or perceived value of whānau.
What is Māori for family?
Whānau is often translated as ‘family’, but its meaning is more complex. It includes physical, emotional and spiritual dimensions and is based on whakapapa. Whānau can be multi-layered, flexible and dynamic. Whānau is based on a Māori and a tribal world view.
What tamariki means?
children
plural noun New Zealand. (in Maori contexts) children. ‘I sparked up a conversation, asking the tamariki where they were from’
What is meaning of Motu Patlu?
Motu Patlu is an Indian animated sitcom television series airing on Nickelodeon and Vasantham. The series is produced by Cosmos-Maya. It is adapted from the classic comic strip on Lot Pot. It focuses on two friends, Motu and Patlu, living in the fictional city Furfuri Nagar.
What is mahi in New Zealand?
mahi. work or an activity. mana. dictionaries usually translate this as ‘authority, prestige, pride, or status’. Fluent speakers of Māori are aware that this concept in Māori can mean something else that is not always expressed well by the English translations.
What is a Kaiarahi?
What are Kaiarahi? Kaiārahi are the Whānau Ora ground-force, supporting whānau to access integrated care and support. Kaiārahi will advocate for whānau and wrap the necessary services around them to assist in achieving whānau goals.
Where does the word Kaitiakitanga come from?
The Māori kupu/word kaitiakitanga means guardianship and protection. It is a way of managing the environment, based on the Māori-world view. A kaitiaki is a guardian who is given the role, based on experience and whom the tribe sees as fit for the task.