Polynesian Animals
Included here are animal names and words compared with Polynesian languages such as Sāmoan language and Hawaiʻian language.
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English | Sāmoan Word | Hawaiʻian Word | Tongan Word | Tahitian Word | Māori Word | Scientific |
Bat (Flying Fox) | Peʻa | ʻŌpeʻapeʻa | Peka | ʻIore Pererau | Pekapeka | Chiroptera |
Blacktip Reef Shark | Malie Alamata | Manō pāʻele | Carcharhinus melanopterus | |||
Bluespotted stingray | Fai Tala | Neotrygon kuhlii | ||||
Brown noddy | Gogo | Anous stolidus | ||||
Burrowing Sea Urchin | Tuitui | Echinometra Mathaei | ||||
Centipede | Atualoa | Kanapī | Scolopendra subspinipes | |||
Chicken | Moa | Moa | Moa | Moa | Heihei | Gallus gallus |
Coconut Crab | Ūū | Uʻa vāhi | Birgus Latro | |||
Coral | ʻAmu | ʻĀkoʻakoʻa | Katoa | Toʻa | Kāoa | Anthozoa |
Cow | Povi | Pipi wahine | Pulu | Puaʻatoro | Kau | Bos taurus |
Crab | Paʻa | Pāpaʻi | Paka | Paʻapaʻa | Pāpaka | Brachyura |
Dog | Maile | ʻĪlio | Kulī | ʻŪrī | Kurī | Canis familiaris |
Dolphinfish | Masimasi | Mahimahi | Mahimahi | Mahimahi | Coryphaena hippurus | |
Fish | Iʻa | Iʻa | Ika | Iʻa | Ika | |
Fluted Giant Clam | Faisua | ʻOlepe | Tridacna Squamosa | |||
Great frigatebird | Atafa | Fregata minor | ||||
Horse | Solofanua | Lio | Hoosi | Puaʻahorofenua | Hōiho | Equus ferus caballus |
Lesser frigatebird | Atafa | Fregata ariel | ||||
Manta Ray | Fai Malie | Hāhālua | Manta Birostris | |||
Octopus | Feʻe | Heʻe | Feke | Feʻe | Wheke | Octopus Cyanea |
Palolo Worm | Palolo | Palola viridis | ||||
Pig | Puaʻa | Puaʻa | Puaka | Puaʻa | Kunekune | Sus scrofa, Sus scrofa domesticus |
Portuguese man o' war | Vaʻa tau | Physalia physalis | ||||
Rectangular triggerfish | Sumu aloalo | Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa | Rhinecanthus rectangulus | |||
Reef triggerfish | Sumu aloalo | Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa | Rhinecanthus rectangulus | |||
Rock Crab | Amaʻama | ʻAʻama | Grapsus | |||
Scalloped Hammerhead | Mataʻitaliga | Manō kihikihi | Sphyrna lewini | |||
Sea Urchin | Vaga | Wana | Vana | Vana | Kina | Echinoidea |
Shark | Malie | Manō | ʻAnga | Maʻo | Mangō | |
Skipjack Tuna | Aku | Katsuwonus pelamis | ||||
Wahoo | Paāla | Ono | Valu Louniu | Pāere | Acanthocybium solandari | |
Wedge-tail Triggerfish | Sumu aloalo | Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa | Rhinecanthus rectangulus | |||
Whitebanded Triggerfish | Sumu uoʻuo | Rhinecanthus aculeatus | ||||
Yellowfin Tuna | Asiasi | ʻAhi | Takuo | ʻAʻahi | Thunnus albacares |
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