Aroha is a
Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Co ...
word meaning "
love
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", cognate with the Hawaiian term ''
aloha
''Aloha'' ( , Hawaiian: ˈlohə is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, that is commonly used as a greeting. It has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians, for whom the term is use ...
''. It is also a given name, and can be either masculine or feminine.
Notable people
Notable people with the name include:
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Aroha Awarau, journalist and playwright from New Zealand
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Aroha Clifford, first woman in New Zealand to gain a pilot's license from an aero club
* Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford (born 2018), daughter of former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Jacinda Ardern
Dame Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern ( ; born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician and activist who was the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, leader of the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023. She was ...
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Aroha Harris (born 1963), New Zealand historian
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Aroha Reriti-Crofts (1938–2022), former national president of the Māori Women's Welfare League
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Te Aroha Keenan
Te Aroha Keenan is a New Zealand former netball coach and member of the Silver Ferns in the 1980s. She later coached the Cook Islands national team at the 1999 Netball World Championships, as well as a multinational Team Pasifika in a test seri ...
, New Zealand former netball coach
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Aroha Savage
Aroha Savage (born 11 March 1990) is a rugby union player. She plays for and Auckland. She previously played for the Blues Women in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition. She has competed for the Black Ferns at three Rugby World Cup's — 2010, 2 ...
(born 1990), rugby union player from New Zealand
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Aroha Yates-Smith, New Zealand performer
Fictional characters
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Aroha Reed, character in the TVNZ soap opera ''Shortland Street''
Other uses
* ''Aroha'' is an alternate spelling for
Hindi language
Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the Government of India, alongside English, and is the ''li ...
word
''Aaroh''.
See also
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Te Aroha
Te Aroha is a rural town in the Waikato region of New Zealand with a population of 3,906 people in the 2013 census, an increase of 138 people since 2006. It is northeast of Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton and south of Thames, New Zealand, T ...
, a town in the North Island of New Zealand
References
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Māori given names
Given names
Unisex given names
Māori words and phrases