Māui
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Hawaiian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Māui
- (Hawaiian mythology) a trickster god who pushed up the sky and fished up the Hawaiian islands
- (astronomy) a star near the Pleiades
- a male or (sometimes) female given name from Hawaiian
References
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986
- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Maui (in the old orthography) occurs in 19th-century marriage records as the only name of 5 women and 19 men.
Maori
Etymology
Possibly related to mauī (“left side”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Māui
- (mythology) A trickster and a hero who had his superhuman strength and shapeshifting, believed to have created the islands of New Zealand from a great fish that he caught.
Derived terms
- Te Ika-a-Māui (“the fish of Maui, North Island”)
- Te Ika-nui-a-Māui (“the great fish of Maui, North Island”)
- Te Waka-a-Māui (“the canoe of Maui, South Island”)
- Te Upoko-o-te-Ika-a-Māui (“the head of Maui's fish, the city of Wellington”)
- Te Pāpaka-a-Māui (“the paddle crab of Maui, Australia”)
- Te Riu-a-Māui (“the hills and valleys of Maui, Zealandia (submerged former continent that New Zealand was part of)”)