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tāwhangawhanga

1. (modifier) headlong, hastily, hurriedly, impetuously.

Ā i ngā rā, i ngā tau ōku e noho ai hei Mema mō te Pāremata nei ka tino rere tāwhangawhanga ahau ki aua tikanga Māori mahi ai (TW 30/9/1876:360). / In the days and years I sat as a Member of Parliament I rushed headlong into working with those Māori customs.

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2. (noun) bay.

Tukua atu tama kia puta i waho i te tāwhangawhanga (NIT 1995:33). / Allow him to go forth beyond the bay.

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Synonyms: kopanga, korutanga, kowhanenga, kokoru, koko, kokorutanga, whanga, koro, awhenga

pei

1. (loan) (noun) bay (horse).

He hōiho poka, he pei, 14 ringa te tiketike, ko te parani i pēnei me te J i te peke katau, ko te utu mō te hē 2 hereni e 6 kapa (TW 12/8/1876:7). / A gelding, a bay, 14 hands in height, with a brand like a J on the right flank, the fine being two shillings and sixpence.

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Matau-a-Māui, Te

1. (location) Hawke Bay.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)

Ko Pāwhare te ingoa o te hau rangaranga te muri kei Te Matau-a-Māui (Te Ara 2013). / Pāwhare is the name of the north-north-east wind in Hawke’s Bay.

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Waione

1. (location) Martins Bay - a bay in southern Westland between Jackson Bay and Milford Sound.

He wāhi whakahirahira a Waione nā te mea koia tēnei te pito whakamutunga o ngā kāinga tū putuputu o Poutini, arā, ko te ara pounamu e ahu mai ana mā te awaawa o Whakatipu-kā-tuka (TTR 1996:216). / Martins Bay was an important place because this was the last in the Poutini chain of settlements, that is of the greenstone trail through the Hollyford Valley.

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Ōraka

1. (location) Colac Bay - a bay to the west of Invercargill.

Mataharehare

1. (location) St. George's Bay (Auckland).

Heke mai ana rātou ko tana whānau ki Ākarana tō rātou kāinga i noho ai, ko te wāhi e karangatia nei ko Mataharehare (KO 15/2/1883:5). / He and his family moved to Auckland and their home where they resided was the place called St. George's Bay.

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Hāku Pei

1. (loan) (location) Hawke's Bay.

Hāki Pei

1. (loan) (location) Hawke's Bay.

Ko te kura tuatahi i haere ai au, ko Nūhaka kei Hāki Pei (HP 1991:32). / The first school that I went to was Nūhaka in Hawke's Bay.

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Harataunga

1. (location) Kennedy Bay (Coromandel Peninsula).

Kapu-kete-reti

1. (location) Wickliffe Bay (Otago Peninsula).

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 18;)

koko

1. (noun) bay, cove, inlet.

Ko te marae i takoto ai te kahurangi nei ko Kakanui, he pā kai tētahi koko i te pito hauāuru o Te Rotoiti; ko Te Tāheke tōna ingoa nui (M 2006:254). / The marae where this aristocratic woman lay was Kakanui, a pā at a cove at the western end of Lake Rotoiti; its main name is Te Tāheke.

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Synonyms: korutanga, kowhanenga, kokoru, kokorutanga, kopanga, koro, tāwhangawhanga, awhenga, whanga


2. (noun) corner, recess.

Haere tonu atu te tangata rā, noho rawa atu i te koko o te whare (M 2006:328). / They called him to go inside and that man went straight in and sat in the corner of the house.

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Synonyms: hiki

kokoru

1. (noun) bay, indentation of the coast, cove, bight.

E haere ana ahau i runga i te hukapapa e whakawhiti ana i tētahi kokoru o te moana i runga i tētahi kōneke e tōia ana e ngā kurī (TP 8/1908:7). / I was travelling on the ice crossing a bay on a sledge being pulled by dogs.

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Synonyms: kopanga, korutanga, kowhanenga, koko, kokorutanga, whanga, koro, tāwhangawhanga, awhenga

kokorutanga

1. (noun) bay, indentation of the coast, cove, bight, sound.

Nō te 8 o Ākuhata i te tau 1874 i whānau ai a Tuiti Makitānara ki te pūau o Kaituna ki ngā kokorutanga o Te Wairau (TTR 1998:99). / Sweet MacDonald was born on 8 August 1874 at the mouth of the the Kaituna river (Havelock) in the Marlborough Sounds.

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Synonyms: kopanga, korutanga, kowhanenga, kokoru, koko, whanga, koro, tāwhangawhanga, awhenga

Moana-a-Toitehuatahi, Te

1. (location) Bay of Plenty (sea).

Ko te kōrero i a Te Arawa, i ū mai a Ngāhue ki Tūhua i Te Moana-a-Toitehuatahi (Te Ara 2011). / Te Arawa say he landed at Mayor Island in the Bay of Plenty.

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Ōkahu

1. (location) Ōkahu Bay (Auckland).

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 110; Te Kōhure Video Tapes (Ed. 1): 3;)

Ōmāhu

1. (location) Hobson Bay (Auckland).

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 107;)

Papati Pei

1. (loan) (location) Poverty Bay.

Ka tapaia e ahau te ingoa o reira ko Papati Pei nō te mea kāhore i riro mai i a mātou tētahi mea i hiahiatia e mātou (TP 10/1906:8). / I named the place Poverty Bay because we did not obtain a single thing that we wanted.

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Synonyms: Pawati Pei, Tūranganui-a-Rua

Pawati Pei

1. (loan) (location) Poverty Bay.

Peiwhairangi

1. (loan) (location) Bay of Islands.

I Peiwhairangi ka kite anō ia i tōna whaea i mauria atu ki reira rā tētahi huarahi, ā hokona atu ana pērātia ana anō me ia (TJ 8/2/1898:4). / In the Bay of Islands, he saw his mother who had been taken there by a different route, and who was sold just as he was.

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Pēwhairangi

1. (loan) (location) Bay of Islands.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)

Kua hoki mai a Tā Tānara Mākarini i Pēwhairangi, i te ahiahi o te Wenerei kua hori nei, i reira e whakaoti ana i ētahi atu tohetohe tawhito a ngā Māori (TW 12/2/1875:9). / Sir Donald McLean has returned from the Bay of Islands last Wednesday afternoon, after satisfactorily arranging some long-pending Māori disputes.

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