hangi

See also: Hàn-gí

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori hāngī.

Noun

hangi (countable and uncountable, plural hangis or hangi)

  1. (New Zealand) A traditional Māori pit oven, in which (suitably wrapped) raw food is lain on a base of heated stones. [from 19th c.]
    • 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 134:
      The ovens were used to cook food in identical fashion to the Maori hangi and the Papuan stone ovens.
  2. (New Zealand, uncountable) Food cooked in this way. [from 20th c.]
    • 2015, Anne Ashby, Worlds Collide:
      He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now.

Translations

Anagrams

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هانكی (hangi), خانغی (hangı, which), from earlier قنغی (kangı), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qanqï, which), from Proto-Turkic *kan-, *kań-, a derivation from the interrogative stem *ka-. Ultimately cognate to Turkish hani (where), Old Uyghur [script needed] (kanu, what, which), Karakhanid [script needed] (kayū, what, which), Bashkir ҡайһы (qayhı, which), Kyrgyz кай (kay, what, which), but its relation to the original word is obscure.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haɲ.ɟi/

Pronoun

hangi

  1. (interrogative) which
    Hangi ayda doğdun?Which month were you born in?

Usage notes

  • Note: Declension of the singular form requires hangi-si, which literally translates to “which one, which of”.

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ka:ñu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 632
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.