tangi

British  

/ ˈtʌŋiː /

noun

1. a Māori funeral ceremony

2. informal a lamentation

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Etymology

Origin of tangi

Māori

Example Sentences

“Now I don’t come here anymore to collect scrap,” he said on a recent visit to the blast site in the Tangi Valley in central Afghanistan.

From New York Times

In November, Mr. Rahman and his son were drawn to the abandoned Afghan military outpost in the Tangi Valley because of its supply of so-called Hesco barriers, sand-filled containers held together by metal caging.

From New York Times

The father-son duo in the Tangi Valley were taking apart one of the Hesco barriers and had dug around its base when Mr. Rahman found a mortar shell, most likely left behind by either the Soviet army or one of the militias that used the base after the Soviets withdrew in 1989.

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“When the Russians were leaving Afghanistan, one of them turned to me and said: ‘We’re leaving now but the land will fight you for another 30 years,’” recalled Muhammed Asif, 59, a Tangi Valley village elder.

From New York Times

In Fiji, delays were partly the result of local nonprofits taking on far more work than they could handle, said Tukatara Tangi, the senior humanitarian adviser for the Australia office of Plan International.

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