English

Noun

hangi ‎(plural hangis or hangi)

1. (New Zealand) A traditional Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven.
2. (New Zealand, uncountable) Food cooked in this way.
   • 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

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هانكی ‎(hangi), حنغی ‎(hangi, “which”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] ‎(kankı, “which”), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Ultimately cognate to Turkish hani ‎(“where”), Old Uighur [script needed] ‎(kanu, “what, which”), Karakhanid [script needed] ‎(kayū, “what, which”), Bashkir ҡайһы ‎(qayhï, “which”), Kyrgyz кай ‎(kay, “what, which”), but its relation to the original word is obscure.^[1]

Pronoun

hangi

1. (interrogative) which

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

Declension

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• hangisi
• herhangi

Related terms

• hani
• kanca ‎(“whithersoever, whither”)

References

1. ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 632