hapu

British  

/ ˈhɑːpuː /

noun

1. a subtribe

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Etymology

Origin of hapu

Māori

Example Sentences

And Francois Tumahai, a spokesman for Ngati Waewae, the local hapu or subtribe, told the New Zealand news outlet Stuff that it had not authorized the people to take the fossil.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

Twenty years ago a hapu, in number just forty persons, removed their kainga from a dry healthy position to the edge of a raupo swamp.

From Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by 'A Pakeha Maori'

Every man in a native hapu had to procure a musket, or die.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

Were not all your hapu present when the money was paid?

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

He was head of a strong family, or hapu, which mustered a considerable number of fighting men; all his near relations.

From Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by 'A Pakeha Maori'