2. (noun) women, females, ladies, wives – plural form of wahine.
Ko tana pūtake i tohe ai ia, he tokomaha ngā wāhine e whiwhi whenua ana, ko rātou anō kei te whakahaere, he kore tungāne tonu nō rātou, he mōhio ake rānei nō rātou i ngā tāne (TTR 1994:54). / The basis of her argument was that many women owned land and they themselves administered it because they had no male relatives, or because they were more competent than the men.
See also wahine