kehua

kehua englanniksi

1. tout

2. compliment

3. praise

1. A ghost; an evil spirit.

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1906|title=Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rC6-CwFDT4IC&q=%22kehua%22&dq=%22kehua%22&hl=en&ei=NpehTbLFIM_BcZmDxf0B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCQ|page=228

3. 1924, Best|Elsdon Best, ''Māori Religion and Mythology: being an account of the cosmogony, anthropogeny, religious beliefs and rites, magic and folk lore of the Māori folk of New Zealand'', Part 2, 2005, Te Papa Press, page 42,

The other aspect of the "etheric double" of the theosophist, that is the wraith or apparitional spirit seen after the death of the body, is the ''kehua'' of the Maori.

4. {{quote-book|en|year=2001|author=Patricia Grace; Irihapeti Ramsden; Jonathan Dennis|title=The Silent Migration: Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club, 1937-1948|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WRSCu-TOufIC&pg=PA17&dq=%22kehua%22&hl=en&ei=5qmhTfvMN4HZcabYgP4B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBjgov=onepage&q=%22kehua%22&f=false|page=17

5. to praise, tout, acclaim, commend (+obj)

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(ux)

6. to tell, say