hangi

See also: Hàn-gí

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori hāngī.

Noun

hangi (countable and uncountable, plural hangis or hangi)

1. (New Zealand) A traditional Māori pit oven, in which (suitably wrapped) raw food is lain on a base of heated stones. [from 19th c.]
   • 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 134:

     The ovens were used to cook food in identical fashion to the Maori hangi and the Papuan stone ovens.

2. (New Zealand, uncountable) Food cooked in this way. [from 20th c.]
   • 2015, Anne Ashby, Worlds Collide:

     He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now.

Translations

Maori pit oven

• Maori: hāngi
• Samoan: please add this translation if you can
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Ghani, Hagin, ahing, anigh, ghani

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هانكی (hangi), خانغی (hangı, “which”), from earlier قنغی (kangı), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qanqï, “which”), from Proto-Turkic *kan-, *kań-, a derivation from the interrogative stem *ka-. Ultimately cognate to Turkish hani (“where”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (kanu, “what, which”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kayū, “what, which”), Bashkir ҡайһы (qayhı, “which”), Kyrgyz кай (kay, “what, which”), but its relation to the original word is obscure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɲ.ɟi/

Pronoun

hangi

1. (interrogative) which

   Hangi ayda doğdun? ― Which month were you born in?

Usage notes

• Note: Declension of the singular form requires hangi-si, which literally translates to “which one, which of”.

Declension

Declension of hangi

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	hangi	hangileri
definite accusative (belirtme)	hangisini	hangilerini
dative (yönelme)	hangisine	hangilerine
locative (bulunma)	hangisinde	hangilerinde
ablative (ayrılma)	hangisinden	hangilerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	hangisinin	hangilerinin

Derived terms

• hangisi
• herhangi

Related terms

• hani