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wharepuni /ˌfɑːrɛˈpuːni/noun (plural wharepunis or same) NZA building in which a Maori family lives and sleeps: it was a superior wharepuni in which a high ranking person and his family lived...- He was brought up in the bush, pig hunting with his father, where they would build small wharepuni to stay in for days at a time
- Pictured is a Maori family outside a whare puni near Masterton.
- Their dwellings were rectangular in shape and resembled those of their former homes in Polynesia, and this basic form became the wharepuni.
Origin Early 20th century: from Maori whare 'house' + puni 'group, company'. |