France - Te Aka Māori Dictionary

Parani

1. (loan) (location) France.

Ko ngā tāngata mahi rīnena i Parani e tae ana ki te rima rau mano (TKH 15/7/1885:9). / There are five hundred thousand people making linen in France.

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Wīwī

1. (loan) (location) France - a country in western Europe.

Ā ko Wīwī e minamina ana ki te mea i a ia kia ea ai tana mate i te Tiamana (TW 22/6/1878:310). / France wishes to avenge its defeat by the Germans.

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2. (loan) (modifier) French.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 70;)

E kīia ana nō te tau 1603 i tīmataria ai te mahi o tēnei patu, o te pēneti, ā nā ngā iwi Wīwī i kite te mahi o taua patu (TW 23/11/1878:586). / It is said that the use of the weapon, the bayonet, started in the year 1603 and it was the French who invented that weapon.

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3. (loan) (noun) French, Frenchman.

Mehemea, he Wīwī rānei, he Tiamana rānei te Kāwanatanga e tū nei, e kore rawa a ia, a Tawiti, e tautoko i ā rātou kupu (TW 26/10/1878:531). / If the government now in office were Frenchmen or Germans he, Tawiti, would not uphold what they had to say.

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Paranihi

1. (loan) (location) France - a country in Western Europe.

Me te whakapiringa o te Hīri o Haina, o Ingarangi, o Paranihi (TH 2/1861:2). / With the attachment of the seals of China, England and France.

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Nīhi

1. (loan) (location) Nice - a town in southern France.

Riwira

1. (loan) (location) Riviera - the coastal area of south-east France and north-west Italy.

Ko te rū i puta i te ata nei ki ngā tāone o Nihi me Kanehi, i puta katoa hoki ki ngā tini wāhi o te taha whakararo o Itari, ā i te tāone o Riwira he rau he rau ngā tāngata i mate (KO 19/4/1887:3). / This morning an earthquake occurred in the towns of Nice and Cannes extending to many places on the northern coast of Italy, and in the Riviera hundreds and hundreds of people died.

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Parī

1. (loan) (location) Paris - the capital of France on the river Seine.

Synonyms: Pārihi

Hongere Ingarihi, Te

1. (loan) (noun) English Channel - the sea separating southern England from northern France.

Uru ana ngā whenua katoa e takoto ana ki te hauāuru o ngā Hakihona o te Tonga me ngā whenua i te awa o te Temu tae noa ki te moana i karangatia ko Te Hongere Ingirihi (KO 15/10/1887:6). / It encompassed all the lands lying to the west of the South Saxons and the lands from the River Thames right to the ocean called the English Channel.

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Kanehi

1. (loan) (location) Cannes - a resort on the Mediterranean coast of southern France.

peita kōpura

1. (loan) (noun) impressionism painting - a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterised by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and colour.

Ko te peita kōpura, i tīmata mai i a Claude Monet i Parī i te rautau 19, e tino aro ana ki te whakaatanga o te aho i te kaupapa o te peita, me te kapo a te ringapeita i te wairua e kitea ana e ia (RTA 2014:133). / Impressionism painting began with Claude Monet in Paris in the Nineteenth Century and focuses on the effect of light as the subject of the painting and the painter's capturing of the mood perceived by him.

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