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hangi
hangi
See also: Hàn-gí
English
Noun
hangi (plural hangis or hangi)
- (New Zealand) A traditional Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven.
- (New Zealand, uncountable) Food cooked in this way.
- 2015, Anne Ashby, Worlds Collide
- He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now.
- 2015, Anne Ashby, Worlds Collide
Translations
method of cooking food
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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish هانكی (hangi), حنغی (hangi, “which”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kankı, “which”), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Ultimately cognate to Turkish hani (“where”), Old Uighur [script needed] (kanu, “what, which”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kayū, “what, which”), Bashkir ҡайһы (qayhï, “which”), Kyrgyz кай (kay, “what, which”), but its relation to the original word is obscure.[1]
Pronoun
hangi
- (interrogative) which
- Hangi ayda doğdun? ― Which month were you born in?
Declension
declension of hangi
Usage notes
- Note: Declension of the singular form requires hangi-si, which literally translates to “which one, which of”.
Derived terms
- hangisi
- herhangi
Related terms
References
- ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 632