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metararahi

1. (noun) great, noble, honourable.

Nā wai i whakatakoto tēnei whakaaro mō Taira, mō te pā whakakarauna, he rangatira nei ōna kaihokohoko; ko ōna kaiwhakawhitiwhiti taonga, ko ngā metararahi o te whenua? (PT Ihaia 23:8). / Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

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