Meaning of waka | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name from Japanese.
2. A kind of classical Japanese poem.
3. A Maori canoe.
   New-Zealand
4. A broad Maori community consisting of numerous Maori tribes, all sharing common ancestors thought to have come to New Zealand in a particular canoe. (A waka is divided into several iwi.)
   New-Zealand

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Examples

““Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.””

“On occasion this orientation would extend to wider tribal units […] or even to waka federations such as Tainui, Te Arawa or Mataatua.”

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