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Japanese
Romanization
karikari
- Rōmaji transcription of かりかり
- Rōmaji transcription of カリカリ
Maori
Etymology 1
Reduplication of kari “to dig out”
Verb
karikari
- to strip off (of bark etc.)
Etymology 2
Reduplication of kari “to cleave”
Noun
karikari
- notch
Derived terms
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “karikari”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 119
- “karikari” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.