Mauri
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Mauri may refer to:
- In the Maori language of New Zealand, Mauri means the life force which all objects contain.
- In Polynesian mythology, Mauri is the soul of a person which lives on after death. It is roughly equivalent to the western ghost - see Mauri (soul).
- The Mauri were the people of Mauretania (not the same as Mauritania), and gave their name to the Moors.
- Mauri was the name of a 1987 New Zealand feature film, set in a Maori coastal settlement.