waka

noun3

1. •
   (New-Zealand) A Maori canoe.
2. •
   A kind of classical Japanese poem.

   • “Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.” — 1962
3. •
   (New-Zealand) A broad Maori community consisting of numerous Maori tribes, all sharing common ancestors thought to have come to New Zealand in a particular canoe. (A waka is divided into several iwi.)

   • On occasion this orientation would extend to wider tribal units […] or even to waka federations such as Tainui, Te Arawa or Mataatua. — 2003