hapū

plural hapūs

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of hapu.

   There are three hapūs interested in this land.

   1992, Witi Ihimaera, editor, Te Ao Mārama, Reed Books, →ISBN, page 135

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   Over the hills is a town called Porangahau, we had a friendly rivalry, which still goes on, between the two hapūs, and Waipawa on the other end.

   2003, Paul Diamond, A Fire in Your Belly: Māori Leaders Speak, Huia Publishers, →ISBN, page 181

   No doubt the attitude taken to signing by other, particularly neighbouring or powerful, hapū would have been vitally relevant – and the effects of those hapūs’ future relationship with Britain vis-à-vis that of their own hapū.

   2008, Matthew S[imon] R[ussell] Palmer, The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand’s Law and Constitution, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 68

   But the names of the mere refer to two famous Tainui ancestors, Kauwhata the father and Wehi Wehi his son, who were the eponymous ancestors of two hapū based on the west side of Maungatautari. Both hapū had suffered grievously from the operations of the Native Land Court and had travelled to Rotorua with the mere to have the Prince initiate investigations of their land loss.

   2022, Jock Phillips, A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects, Penguin, →ISBN