kainga
Britishnoun
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Origin of kainga
Māori
Example Sentences
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Mr Mohsin moved to New Zealand with Ms David to work for a government housing agency, Kainga Ora.
From BBC
That evening we stop at the Maori settlement of Tieke Kainga, where we’re to sleep in the community’s marae, or meeting house.
From The Guardian
Some Rapanui contend that their last king, Simeón Riro Kainga, was poisoned in 1898 during a visit to Chile’s coast.
From New York Times
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 Project Gutenberg
I would give him a piece quite close to the kainga, where I would always have him close to me; I hope he may take the land; then I should have two pakehas, him and ——.
From Project Gutenberg
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