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Commonly interpreted as 'living' or 'she who lives', from the Arabic root for 'to live'.
Arabic
Means 'angel' in Maori. Te Aka explicitly tags this as a loanword — a Maori transliteration of the English/Christian-era term, from Latin angelus, rather than indigenous pre-contact Maori vocabulary.
Maori (loanword, ultimately from Latin via English)
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