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Kia ora (Māori pronunciation: [k i ˈ a ɔ ɾ a], approximated in English as / ˌ k iː ə ˈ ɔːr ə / KEE-ə-OR-ə [1] or / ˈ k j ɔːr ə / KYOR-ə) is a Māori-language greeting which has entered New Zealand English. It translates literally as "have life" or "be healthy", [2] wishing the essence of life upon someone, from one speaker to ...
The Kia Ora Incident is an incident that took place in 1984, at a time when the use of Māori phrases was uncommon in New Zealand. An Auckland telephone operator, Naida Glavish (then known as Naida Povey), was instructed to stop using "kia ora" when greeting callers after the post office had received a complaint. At the time, the Post Office ...
Kia-Ora (/ ˈ k j ɔːr ə / KYOR-ə) is a concentrated fruit soft drink brand, made by Atlantic Industries (a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company) and licensed for manufacturing in Ireland and up to 2019 in the UK by Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd. The juice drink is sold in a concentrated state.
Another Samoan salutation To life, live long! properly translated Ia ola! also echoes in places such as Aotearoa (New Zealand), where the formal greeting in Māori is Kia ora and in Tahiti (French Polynesia) where it is 'Ia orana. Talofa is also the greeting of the island of Lifou (New Caledonia), and of the island state of Tuvalu.
transliteration of the English word "governance," sometimes mistranslated as "sovereignty." See also: tino rangatiratanga and Differences in the Māori and English versions of the Treaty of Waitangi kia kaha an expression of support, lit. be strong kia ora a greeting, lit. be healthy koha gift, present, offering, donation, contribution [9 ...
Waewae takahia kia kino nei hoki! Stomp the feet as hard as you can! Team: Kia kino nei hoki! As hard as we can! Leader: Ka mate, ka mate! I die, I die! Team: Ka ora, Ka ora! I live, I live! Leader: Ka mate, ka mate! I die, I die! Team: Ka ora, Ka ora! I live, I live! All: Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru: This is the Hairy Man...
Kia Ora Incident: 1 Fired after insistence on using the greeting Kia Ora. 2004 Foreshore and seabed Hīkoi: Nationwide Protest over the seabed and foreshore being declared public land. 2004 Tim Selwyn axe protest [6] 1 Auckland Charged with sedition: 2006 6 February Waitangi protest [7] Northland 2007 15 October New Zealand police raids
The use of Māori words in New Zealand English has increased since the 1990s, [2] [3] and English-language publications increasingly use macrons to indicate long vowels. [4] Māori words are usually not italicised in New Zealand English, and most publications follow the Māori-language convention of the same word for singular and plural (e.g ...