hangi

Borrowed from Maori hāngi.

hangi (countable and uncountable, 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.

• Ghani, Hagin, ahing, anigh, ghani

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 Uyghur [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]

hangi

1. (interrogative) which

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

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

• hangisi
• herhangi

• hani
• kanca (“whithersoever, whither”)