tahua

From Maori tahua.

tahua

1. A pile of food presented as a gift.

• Thaua

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tafuqa (“platform; foundation, base”) (compare with Tahitian tahua (“floor, deck, field”) and Hawaiian kahua (“field”)).^[1]

tahua

1. field, enclosure, courtyard

   tahua riringa: battlefield

   Synonym: marae (of a house)

2. square, plaza
3. expanse

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tahua

1. heap
2. menu
3. fund, budget

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tahua

1. stencil

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tahua”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 421
• “tahua” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tafuqa (“platform; foundation, base”) (compare with Maori tahua and Hawaiian kahua).^[1]

tahua

1. floor, base, field

   tahua manureva: airfield

   tahua fare: floor of a house

   tahua ʻeraʻa pōpō : football (or soccer) pitch

   Synonym: marae

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “tahua” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.