Etymology

namu

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Today it means: A sandfly of the genus Austrosimulium. Full definition →

Māori namu
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  1. Māori · borrowed fromnamu
  2. English todaynamu

From Māori namu. Compare Malay nyamuk (“a mosquito”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.