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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HANGI

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PRONUNCIATION OF HANGI

hangi  [ˈhʌŋiː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HANGI

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hangi is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HANGI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hangi

Hāngi

Hāngi is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven still used for special occasions. To "lay a hāngi" or "put down a hāngi" involves digging a pit in the ground, heating stones in the pit with a large fire, placing baskets of food on top of the stones, and covering everything with earth for several hours before uncovering the hāngi. There are many variations and details that can be altered. Hāngi "experts" have developed and improved methods that often, like the stones themselves, have been handed down for generations. Another name sometimes used is umu, for instance the umu tī, used in the South Island to cook Cabbage trees .

Definition of hangi in the English dictionary

The first definition of hangi in the dictionary is Also: Māori oven, umu. an open-air cooking pit. Other definition of hangi is the food cooked in it. Hangi is also the social gathering at the resultant meal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HANGI


hongi
ˈhɒŋiː
mingimingi
ˈmiːəŋiːmiːəŋiː
Palagi
pɑːˈlʌŋiː
tangi
ˈtʌŋiː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HANGI

hangbird
Hangchow
hangdog
hanger
hanger-on
hangers-on
hangfire
hanging
hanging basket
hanging committee
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
hanging glacier
hanging indentation
hanging judge
hanging offence
hanging pawn
hanging plant
hanging valley
hanging wall
hanging wardrobe

WORDS THAT END LIKE HANGI

bostangi
cumbungi
fungi
lungi
porangi
putangitangi
rangi
sarangi
sengi
shilingi
Treaty of Waitangi
Ubangi
wongi

Synonyms and antonyms of hangi in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hangi» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HANGI

Find out the translation of hangi to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hangi from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hangi» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hangi
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hangi
570 millions of speakers

English

hangi
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hangi
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hangi
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Hangi
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hangi
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hangi
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hangi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hangi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hangi
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハンギ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

항이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hangi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hangi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hangi
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हँगजी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hangi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hangi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hangi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Hangi
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Hangi
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

hangi
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hangi
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hangi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hangi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hangi

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HANGI»

The term «hangi» is very widely used and occupies the 12.937 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HANGI» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hangi» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hangi» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hangi

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANGI»

Discover the use of hangi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hangi and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Frommer's New Zealand
Basically, they all offer a hangi (earth oven feast) and a song-and- dance performance, and they're all similarly priced. The hangi is the traditional Maori method of cooking. A large pit is filled with a wood fire topped by stones; when the stones ...
Adrienne Rewi, 2012
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Camera-Aided Robot Calibration
Robot calibration is the process of enhancing the accuracy of a robot by modifying its control software. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the theory and implementation of robot calibration using computer vision technology.
Hangi Zhuang, Zvi S. Roth, 1996
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The Land of the Moa
Hangi: Give me — (Holds out his hands) Marks: (Giving powder) Best for you. Hangi: (Looking L starts, alarmed) Some people! Marks: I'll be with my fellows in the bush. (Exits L) (Hangi takes up basket, is opening door, when Rewi comes ...
George Leitch, Adrian Kiernander, 1990
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New Zealand
hangi. own" wine, sometimes for a small corkage fee (typically $2-5). In most restaurants you can expect to pay upwards of $15 for a main course, perhaps $35 for three courses without wine. Service tends to be unpretentious and helpful  ...
Laura Harper, Tony Mudd, Paul Whitfield, 2002
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Turkish
The following table is for hangi in its use as an interrogative pronoun (rather than in its attributive use), with the possessive inflection for the third person singular preceding the case suffixes; other possessive suffixes can also be used in the ...
Jaklin Kornfilt, 2013
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Sea Songs: Readers Theatre from the South Pacific
The hangi allows our earth mother, Papa-tua-nuku, to do the cooking for us through the even generation of heat that comes from the soil once it is heated. Imagine the fun and excitement when, at the end of the powhiri, all the people are given ...
James W. Barnes, 2004
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Waihou Journeys: The Archaeology of 400 Years of Maori ...
Hangi and fire scoops Terms such as hangi, fire pit and fire scoop have been used for a variety of commonly occurring features (Fig 6.33b). They were interpreted as shallow pits used either in the cooking of food or for heating purposes. Hangi ...
Caroline Phillips, 2000
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Australia and New Zealand on a Shoestring
MAORI CONCERTS & HANGI Although Maori culture in Rotorua has been heavily commercialised, it's still well worth experiencing. The two big activities are concerts and hangi; often the two are combined. The concerts are put on by locals.
‎2005
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Food Culture in the Pacific Islands
The hangi style of earth oven cooking has been through phases of decline and rebirth that have followed those of Maori culture itself. In New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, home to more Polynesian people than any other urban area inside ...
Roger Haden, 2009
10
Adventure Guide to New Zealand
Admission $18 adults, $9 children; hangi buffet combo, $35 adults, $30 children. www.whakarewarewa.com, entrance at the end of Tryon Street. %/fax 07-349- 3463 or 0800-924-426. Also in the Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley and Reserve  ...
Bette Flagler, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HANGI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hangi is used in the context of the following news items.
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Warning over unlicensed hangi sales
The New Plymouth District Council said it had had an increase in complaints about the online sale of homemade foods, including hangi. «Radio New Zealand, Jul 15»
2
Selling homemade hangi about to get harder
People are being warned that selling kai from a homemade hangi for profit could soon attract a hefty fine. The New Plymouth District Council ... «Radio New Zealand, Jul 15»
3
Updated 4 minutes ago
People are being warned that selling home-made hangi could attract a four hundred and fifty dollar fine when the new Food Act comes into ... «Radio New Zealand, Jul 15»
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Kadir Gecesi hangi güne denk geliyor İtikaf nedir? - GÜNCEL …
Bununla birlikte 2015 yılı Ramazan bayramı ne zaman hangi tarihte ve hangi gün ... Kadir gecesinin hangi gece olduğu kesin olarak bilinmemekle birlikte, ... «Haber7.com, Jul 15»
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MEB 2015-2016 Takviye Kurslarının Tüm Detayları
Kurslar hangi derslerden açılacak? İlkokullarda kurslar açılacak mı? Müzik, resim ve beden eğitimi derslerinden de kurslar açılabilecek mi? «Kamudanhaber, Jul 15»
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You'll Need a Mallet to Eat This Roast Duck
Ah yes, the hangi. As the daughter of a New Zealander, I have performed a fair few hangis in my time—heating a set of rocks in a fire until ... «Munchies_ Food by VICE, Jul 15»
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Keeping the hangi fires burning
They came from far and wide for the first of two hangi-making workshops held as part of the month's Matariki celebrations. On a hump of earth ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
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Matariki fashion on show
Saturday began with the Matariki markets and the smell of the hangi drifting throughout the Kaikoura car park. The celebration came to a ... «Marlborough Express, Jul 15»
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Kiwi chef hosts 'hangi workshops'
Kiwi chef hosts 'hangi workshops'. Sun, Jul 5. share. One News. Source: Kiwi chef hosts 'hangi workshops'. It's Kiwi as, but there are fears the hangi is becoming ... «TVNZ, Jul 15»
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Auckland hangi workshop 'an opportunity to reconnect'
"Many Maoris don't know how to lay a hangi as they've been disconnected from the culture due to various circumstances. This is an opportunity ... «TVNZ, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Hangi [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hangi>. Apr 2024 ».
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