1. (loan) (personal name) Tasman, Abel Janszoon Tasman (1602-1659); mariner, explorer, trader, landowner who visited Aotearoa/New Zealand in 1642-1643.
Ko te Pākehā tuatahi nāna i kite ēnei moutere ko Tāhimana he Dutch tōna iwi (TTT 12/12/1921:2). / The first foreigner to discover these islands was Tasman, who was a Dutchman.
Te Aka Māori-English, English-Māori Dictionary and Index by John C Moorfield comprises a selection of modern and everyday language that will be extremely useful for learners of the Māori language.
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He Pātaka Kupu is a monolingual Māori language dictionary, and was designed using its own culturally authentic terms.
