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Meaning of "mapau" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MAPAU

Māori.

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

PRONUNCIATION OF MAPAU

ˈmɑːpɑːuː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAPAU

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mapau 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 MAPAU MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mapau in the English dictionary

The definition of mapau in the dictionary is a small New Zealand tree, Myrsine australis, with reddish bark, aromatic leaves, and dark berries Also called: red matipo.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MAPAU

Diu · kawau · mairehau · piupiu · Tiu

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAPAU

map · map onto · map out · map projection · map reference · map-reading · Mapes · maple · maple butter · Maple Leaf · maple leaves · maple sugar · maple syrup · maplelike · mapless · maplike · mapmaker · mapmaking · mappable · mapped

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAPAU

au · bateau · beau · Bissau · bureau · cadeau · chateau · Cocteau · Dessau · Frau · Guinea-Bissau · Nassau · nouveau · Palau · Pau · plateau · tableau · tau · Tokelau · Zwickau

Synonyms and antonyms of mapau in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mapau» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MAPAU

Find out the translation of mapau to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of mapau from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mapau» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

mapau
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

mapau
570 millions of speakers
en

English

mapau
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

mapau
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mapau
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Mapau
278 millions of speakers
pt

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Mapau
270 millions of speakers
bn

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mapau
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Mapau
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mapau
190 millions of speakers
de

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Mapau
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

mapau
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

mapau
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Mapau
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mapau
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

mapau
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मॅपो
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Mapau
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

Mapau
65 millions of speakers
pl

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mapau
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Mapau
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

mapau
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mapau
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Mapau
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mapau
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Mapau
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mapau

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAPAU»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of mapau
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «mapau».

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAPAU»

Discover the use of mapau in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mapau and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
Mapau, n. a Maori name for several New Zealand trees ; called also Mapou, and frequently corrupted by settlers into Maple, by the law of Hobson-Jobson. The name is applied to the followingThe Mapau— jlfyrsine urz/z'lZez', De C., N0.
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
2
Casino Shrine
Port of Spain: Casino Mapau: Mapau Casino has 85 games including blackjack, video poker, baccarat, roulette, craps and, of course, slot machines including big progressive slots. http://www.mapau.com/ Valsayn: The Island Club Casino: ...
Jesse Dallas
3
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Mapau Family. White Mapau ; Tarata (Pittosporum euyenioidea). One of the most beautiful trees in New Zealand, grows to a comparatively large size in Otago, with a trunk 18 inches to 2 feet diameter. Leaves shining, silvery. Flowers in large ...
‎1869
4
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
... on a clay soil (Waitemata series) ; the height these have attained during twenty years is given in the following table : — Ft. In. Ti (Cordyline australis) ... ... ... 24 0 Puriri (Vitex littoralis) ... ... ... 20 0 Mapau or Tipau, black var. (Myrsine australis) .
New Zealand Institute, 1873
5
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
452 Proceedings. Pohutukawa (Metrosideros tomentosa) Titoki (Alectryon exreUum) ... Tanekaha (Phylloclwhis irichomanoides) Hohoheka (Aralia crasrifolia) Mapau, red var. (Myrsine, sp.) Whauwhau Kahikateii (Dacrydium exclmun) Karaka ...
‎1873
6
Transactions
The five trees that will be considered under the generic name of Mapau are not all members of the same botanical order. The first three are pittosporeal; the fourth, red mapau, is the only Otago representative of a large New Zealand family ; and ...
Royal Society of New Zealand, 1877
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International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, ...
... 568 Mamanillo, 906 Manzimane, 207 Mapata, 244 Mapau, 471, 592 Mapau, white, 658 Maple, black, 2 Maple, higleaf, 1 Maple, New South Wales, 370 Maple , Queensland, 628 Maple, red, 4 Maple, silver, 5 Maple, striped, 3 Maple, sugar, ...
Edward Wight Washburn, 1927
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OpenGL Development Cookbook
The gl au ” HeriData call allocates the GPU memory, however, it is not initialized. In order to initialize the buffer object memory, we can use the gi Mapau " "er function to obtain a direct pointer to the GPU memory. Using this pointer, we can then ...
Muhammad Mobeen Movania, 2013
9
The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 3 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944)
It was not necessary to stay awake all night, like the children in Haiti, to catch the mapau tree which moves in the night. The mobile mapau tree is the storyteller's game with his memory album, his moving around the characters to see them from  ...
Anaïs Nin, 1971
10
The Naturalisation of Animals and Plants in New Zealand
Melicytus ramiflorus (mahoe), Pittosporum tenuifolium (kohuhu or black mapau) and P. eugenioides (tarata or white mapau), Gaya Lyallii (lace-bark), Aristotelia racemosa (mako-mako), Discaria Toumatou (tumatukuru), Sophora tetraptera (ko - ...
George M. Thomson, 2011

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAPAU»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mapau is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Defense Wants Bail For Female Accused Of Murder
Hazel applied for disclosure of evidence, to wit a video tape from MaPau casino on the night the incident allegedly occurred. He said he went ... «The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer, May 15»
2
Music Festival Promotions Gets into High Gear
The last stop on Saturday will be at Unleashed "Worst Behaviour" Exam Revenge party at Club Mapau starting at 10pm. Music by A$AP, Sugar ... «SKNVibes.com, Jun 14»
3
Magnitude 8 Quake Near Solomon Islands Triggers Tsunami
... earthquake was felt in the eastern provinces of the Solomon Islands, where people moved to higher ground as a precaution, Douglas Mapau, ... «Bloomberg, Feb 13»
4
How Pearl Harbor, 9/11 changed US forever
... whose wife was on the 97th floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center, and Milton Mapau, who was on a U.S. military vessel in Pearl Harbor ... «CBS News, Sep 11»
5
New Oscar Contest Lets You Win at the Academy Awards
Think you know who will win the Oscars this year? If you do, then you can win too. Mapau Bingo is holding a new contest for the 78th Annual ... «PR Web, Mar 06»
REFERENCE
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