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Aotearoa is the Māori name for New Zealand. You will hear it in the country itself — in welcome speeches, on the news, and more and more beside the English name, or even in front of it, as in Aotearoa New Zealand. Say it in slow pieces, roughly ah-oh-teh-ah-roh-ah. The Māori word is often explained as "long white cloud," from a story of voyagers seeing a long cloud over the land. Though actually, the name has also been used for the North Island, not only for the whole country, and not every scholar tells the cloud story the same way. What you can stand behind is this: it is a Māori name, now widely used for New Zealand as a whole, and it is not an English nickname invented for tourists. Use it with the respect you would give any people's name for their home.
奧特亞羅瓦（紐西蘭的毛利名稱；常解作「長白雲」）
組成借自毛利語 Aotearoa，意為長白雲，也用來指北島，並用來指紐西蘭。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Aotearoaname/aʊ.tɪəˈrɐʉ.a/
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obsoleteThe North Island of New Zealand.
- he found in the sea this island Aotearoa (the northern island of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there.
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New Zealand, a country in Oceania; the Māori name, used especially in a Polynesian or precolonial context.
- Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistening like a pearl / at the bottom of the world [...].
- The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。