A visitor or guest, especially someone visiting a Maori meeting house.
they will welcome manuhiri from far and wide
Example sentencesExamples
- We simply offer our manuhiri (guests) a cup of tea and chance to 'be'.
- They were laying down a powerful wero, a challenge to the visiting manuhiri.
- The tapu (sacredness) must be lifted from the manuhiri (visitors) before one can enter.
- The behaviour, abuse, and intimidation of manuhiri and visitors by a minority of extremists was regrettable.
- The men will provide a spectacle as they transport their manuhiri back to the central city.
- We seem to be able to countenance policy ideas for tangata whenua that we would never find acceptable for manuhiri.
- I apologise to members of this House and the manuhiri who attended at Te Tii Marae.
- A 'karanga' is the call sent out by a woman who stands at the front of the marae calling the manuhiri (visitors) onto the marae.
- The marae welcomes both overnight visitors (manuhiri) as well as those who come just for the concert and the hangi.
- They came carrying 500 loaves to feed their manuhiri - their visitors who were their invaders.