English Explanatory Dictionary

ariki

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A person having a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.

Word forms

ariki arikis

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori ariki, Proto-Polynesian *qariki.

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