Etymology

Tauranga

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Today it means: A city in the northwest corner of the Bay of Plenty region, on the north coast of the North Island, New Zealand. Full definition →

Māori Tauranga
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The story

  1. Māori · borrowed fromTauranga“anchorage”
  2. English todayTauranga

From Māori Tauranga (“anchorage”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.