1. Papua, Papua New Guinea.
niu pāpua /
a variety of coconut introduced from Papua.
1. (loc.n.) The name used in the Cook Islands for New Guinea and the general Melanesian area .
1. (n.) A variety of creepers, the poisonous roots are used in fish poisoning .
2. (n.) A variety of vine of the roots of which are used to poison fish; this was brought from Papua .
1. (n.) A variety of coconut, having small but numerous nuts introduced from Pāpua New Guinea .
1. (Serve as a) preacher, missionary, priest, pastor, minister of religion. Kāre au i manako ē i ‘orometua ana ‘aia ki Pāpua. I don’t think that he has been to Papua as a preacher; Kua tā‘okota‘i tikāi te tangata i tōna ‘orometua‘anga ki taua ‘enuā ra. The people were very cooperative during his time as a minister in that country; Tere ‘Orometua, Pastor Tere; i ako te ‘orometua mua i te ‘ēvangeria ki runga i tēia toka. The first missionary preached the gospel from this rock; Ko Kaitara te ‘orometua i te pōpongi Ru‘itoru. Kaitara was the preacher on Wednesday morning; ko te kāinga ‘orometua tēnā. That is the minister’s residence. [‘oro1, metua.].
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