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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HINAU

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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HINAU

hinau  [ˈhiːnəuː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HINAU

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hinau 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 HINAU MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hinau in the English dictionary

The definition of hinau in the dictionary is a tall New Zealand tree, Elaeocarpus dentatus, with white flowers and purple fruit.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HINAU

hin
hinahina
Hinayana
Hinayanist
Hinckley
hind
Hind.
hindberry
hindbrain
Hindemith
Hindenburg
Hindenburg line
hinder
hinderance
hinderer
hindering
hinderingly
hinderland
hinderlings
hinderlins

WORDS THAT END LIKE HINAU

au
beau
Bissau
bureau
cadeau
chateau
Dessau
Donau
Frau
Guinea-Bissau
Hanau
nouveau
Palau
Pau
Rathenau
tau
Tokelau
unau
whanau
Zwickau

Synonyms and antonyms of hinau in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hinau» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HINAU

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

Translator English - Chinese

hinau
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hinau
570 millions of speakers

English

hinau
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hinau
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hinau
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hinau
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Hinau
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hinau
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hinau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hinau
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hinau
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hinau
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hinau
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hinau
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hinau
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hinau
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हिनाऊ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hinau
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hinau
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hinau
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hinau
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hinau
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hinau
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hinau
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hinau
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hinau
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hinau

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HINAU»

The term «hinau» is normally little used and occupies the 137.923 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HINAU» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hinau» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hinau» 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 hinau

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HINAU»

Discover the use of hinau in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hinau and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hmnzs Hinau
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMNZS Hinau (P3556) was a Moa-class inshore patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was commissioned in 1985 for the Naval Volunteer Reserve and decommissioned in 2007.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Flowers of four native plants (hinau, rcwarcwa, :awakawa, and nikau) and one introduced plant gorse) were eaten consistently by possums. Small imounts of unidentified flower remains were also ecordcd in all months during late spring and ...
3
Wildlife Population Growth Rates
Bayliss & Choquenot (1998) developed an interferential numerical response function for possums by statistically combining both extrinsic (rposs versus hinau, V) and intrinsic (rp0ss versus density, Dposs ha"') numerical responses (figure ...
R. M. Sibly, J. Hone, T. H. Clutton-Brock, 2003
4
Vegetation Science in Forestry: Global Perspectives Based on ...
C. Kauri-Podocarp-Hardwood-Beech - [small, perhaps secondary kauri and beech; northern North Island] - kauri (N), rimu, miro, mountain totara. tanekaha. toatoa (N), hard beech (N. truncata), silver beech (N. menziesii), tawa, rata, hinau  ...
Elgene Owen Box, 1995
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
56/63 1956 Mar 16 08-40-53 36-7° S 177-7° E S M = 5i~5$ (C) "Severe" Great Barrier Island (14). ? Moko Hinau (11); Cuvier Island (14); Auckland (16). 56/67 1956 Mar 16 13-44-11 36-7° S 177-7° E S M = 4j (D) ? Great Barrier Island (1-1);  ...
6
Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
H. Maiden, 'Useful Native Plants,' p. 426: “'Heilaman [sic] tree.' The wood is soft, and used by the aborigines for making their 'heilamans ' or shields.” Hinau, n. Maori name for the New Zealand tree, Elzeocazyfius dentatus, Vahl., NO. Tiliaceaz.
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
7
Alaka`i: Traditional Leadership
According to Kamakau, KauhiaKama was saved by Hinau, a “foster son of Lono-i -ka-makahiki.” And strangely Kamakau adds, “Ka-uhi-a-Kama made Hinau's name a famous one. It was said that Ka-uhi-a-Kama was annoyed with Hinau ...
Malcolm Nāea Chun, 2008
8
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom
The hinau and tanahaka are employed in tanning, all the leather used in the colony being tanned either at the Bay of Islands or Port Nicholson. The bark of the Rimu or red pine (Dacrydium Cupressinum, of Solander), a very common tree , ...
P.L. Simmonds
9
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
The volcanic Pleistocene-Pliocene Moko Hinau Islands at the north-eastern end of the profile rest upon a 430-m-thick pedestal of volcanic rocks with a velocity of 3-1-4-0 km/s. The highstanding greywacke rocks in the central part have a rather  ...
10
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
This is the only specimen collected since the original series from Moko Hinau. Tanychilus metallicus White, 1846 (Alleculinae) 1 adult: Jan. 1956, beaten from Melicytus ramiflorus. Xylochus sp. cf. spinifer Broun, 1893 (Alleculinae) 1 adult: Jan.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HINAU»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hinau is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tuvalu claim first-ever Pacific Games gold medal as Samoa and …
... giving him victory in front of Ronald Raboe of Nauru, who enjoyed their best day at Port Moresby 2015 so far, and Tahiti's Hinau Teotahi. «Insidethegames.biz, Jul 15»
2
Big trevally, snapper and eel on the menu
... the bottom end of Waiheke Island and further afield at the Moko Hinau group and Little Barrier and Great Barrier and the Mercury group. «New Zealand Herald, May 15»
3
Hamilton dog attack owners fined $200
Zachary Losaki was left with bite marks on his back and scratches on his arm after the 5-year-old Labrador cross attacked him on Hinau St on ... «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»
4
Tough country, tough sheep
... pasture, but when European settlers first arrived the hills were covered in rimu and northern rata emerging over a canopy of tawa and hinau. «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»
5
Hamilton boy scarred in dog attack
Bite marks were left on nine-year-old Zachary Losaki after he was attacked by a dog on his way to school on Hinau Street, Forest lake, Hamilton ... «Waikato Times, Mar 15»
6
Tauranga to keep pensioner villages - for now
Also threatened were the 12-unit Hinau St village by Blake Park and the 35-unit Shelley St-Pillans Rd village. The council elected 15 months ... «New Zealand Herald, Jan 15»
7
Old boy recalls Rangiwahia as a schoolboy
... South Road and Karewarewa schools had closed and were consolidated with Rangiwahia. Ruahine and Hinau schools followed in 1947. «Manawatu Standard, Dec 14»
8
Two men stabbed in Wellington brawl
The fracas took place in Hataitai's Hinau Street, between two groups of men and women around 1am, police said. Following the fight, two men ... «New Zealand Herald, Nov 14»
9
Cyclist spewing at hurling incident
“They pulled into Hinau Street and parked up by Blake Park,” she adds. “I was like, should I follow them? But it was too dark and there was just ... «SunLive, Oct 14»
10
Getting to Riccarton House/ Bistro and Christchurch Market
... or Rata St, off Straven Road. On the other side, Totara, Puriri, Hinau, Konini provide access to Kahu Road at the university end of Kahu Road. «Scoop.co.nz, Sep 14»

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