Ngapuhi

alternative Ngapui · alternative Nga Puhi

1. New ZealandA member of a Maori people (or iwi) of the Northland region of New Zealand.First known use 19th c.

   The loss of the Nga Puhi in a battle of 1807 or 1808, which killed two of his brothers and many chiefly kin, was a formative moment in his life.

   2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 71