mana
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I guess in the context I see it used, it means their "mana". * that is the Maori word NZ has chosen to describe it.
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- noun A supernatural force believed to dwell in a person or sacred object.
- noun Power; authority.
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- "I'm beginning to be glad your mana was strong during our border clash." — The Magic May Return
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I guess in the context I see it used, it means their "mana". * that is the Maori word NZ has chosen to describe it.
— MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory -
One-third of a mana was the price paid for a slave who was killed.
— History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery -
His library, his study, his study table, with everything on it just as he left it when Cadde la stanca mana are there, and there is the death-chair facing the window, from which he gasped for "more light" at last.
— Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete - " The Marines, trained for the bloody business of boarding enemy ships, were the troops he needed now. — Sharpe's Siege
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- Maori, integrity, charisma, prestige.
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/ (mäˈnə)/
ahd pronounces "mana"
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