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ngai

/ əŋˈɡɑːiː /

prefix

  1. clan or tribe: used before the names of certain Māori tribes

    Ngai Tahu

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ngai1

Māori
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Example Sentences

What makes Ngai's discussion novel is her application of the "cute" to highbrow poetry.

Once you read Ngai's account of it, you'll see "zany" everywhere.

Characteristically, Ngai adduces two very different examples of the zany: Lucille Ball and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Indeed what's most depressing about Ngai's terms is their smallness, their triviality.

For Ngai, the zany is an aesthetic about the withering of sensibility.

The tu, of course, is non-radical, the Gudang form being ngai.

So Ko-Ngai returned home sorrowful at heart; but she kept secret all that she had heard, and told no one what she had done.

Natta ngai padlo ngaityarniappi; watteyernaurlo tappandi ngaityo parni tatti.

Apparently all those people, being Ngai-Tai, were of one tribal identity.

Much etiquette was observed in the method of our admission into Hoa Ngai.

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