| cabbage – kāpeti |
| cake – keke |
| calf – kāwhe |
| canoe – whaka |
| Canterbury – Waitaha |
| Canterbury Plains – Ngā Pākihi-whatatekateka-a-Waitaha |
| Cape Reinga – Te Rerenga Wairua
Te Rerenga – the place one flies from. Wairua – spirit. Reinga – Place of leaping. |
| carvers – Kaihauhau
A person who produces or shapes a figure or pattern or design by cutting into a hard material. |
| carving – whakairo |
| cat – ngeru |
| cave – ana |
| cent – hēneti |
| challenge – wero |
| Chatham Islands – Wharekauri
Located east of the South Island, the ‘Chathams’, as they are affectionately known, is approximately a 1 ¾ hour flight from Wellington or Christchurch! The distance that separates the islands from the mainland puts Chatham Islands 45 minutes ahead of standard New Zealand time, and a close look at the international dateline shows that the Chathams are the first to see the light of every new day – a fact that made the islands famous at the time of the new millennium. |
| cheek – pāpāringa |
| chest – poho |
| chest – uma |
| chicken – heihei |
| Chief – Ariki
Chief A leader or ruler, head of a tribe, clan . A first born of high inherited rank. |
| children – tamariki |
| chin – kauae |
| Christchurch – Ōtautahi
O – the place of Tautahi. |
| cloak – korowai
A finely woven Māori cloak which is worn as a mantle of prestige and honour. |
| clothes basket – pahikete kākahu |
| clothes drier – mīhini whakamaroke kākahu |
| clothing – kakahu |
| cloud – ao |
| Clutha – Mata-au
To the local āori Clutha was known as Mata-au which means surface current but was finally named Clutha which is Gaelic for Clyde by the Scottish settlers after a river in their native country. |
| coconut – kikinati |
| coffee machine – mīhini kawhe |
| cold – makariri |
| colour – kara |
| comb – heru |
| corn – kanga |
| Coromandel Range – Te Paeroa o Toi
The long range of Toi. |
| cot – moenga pēpi |
| cow – kau |
| crawl – ngōki |
| cricket – kirikiti |
| cup – kapu |
| cupboard – kapata |
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