taiaha
noun
taiaha is a noun meaning “A traditional Māori wooden staff weapon, used for short, sharp strikes or stabbing thrusts, usually decorated on one end” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-I-A-H-A, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of taiaha is taiahas.
What does taiaha mean?
noun
- 1
A traditional Māori wooden staff weapon, used for short, sharp strikes or stabbing thrusts, usually decorated on one end.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of taiaha
- taiahas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is taiaha?
Taiaha appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does taiaha come from?
Borrowed from Māori taiaha.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).