Cook Islands Māori Dictionary

6,097 words from the Cook Islands Maori Dictionary by Jasper Buse with Raututi Taringa (1995), searchable in either language, with the example sentences the book gives for each meaning — and 9,248 English words from its finderlist, for going the other way. Vāareka uses the same book when she is asked a word she has not been taught.

Read from a scan. The text was read from the printed book by a machine. It is good, but not perfect: now and then a macron or an ʻāmata is lost, or two words run together. Each entry links to its page of the book — check there before you rely on a spelling. The book is the Rarotongan of the 1990s; where it differs from what a speaker says now, the speaker wins.

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