tāhae
1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to steal, cheat, rob, embezzle.
2. (modifier) stealing, thieving, dishonest, fraudulent.
Ka haere mai a Puru-aute ki te mahi tāhae i ngā kai o aua whenua (JPS 1912:83). / Puru-aute came to carry out the task of stealing the food of those lands.
3. (noun) thief, cheat, robber, crook, theft, dispossession.
I te kāinga o Māhanga a Hotu-nui e noho ana, ka whakapaea ia he tāhae (NIT 1995:105). / While Hotu-nui was living at Māhanga's home he was accused of being a thief.
Synonyms: keiā, pāhua, whānako, māhurehure, kaiā
4. (noun) young fellow, bloke, chap.
I pania e te kōhine tana kakī ki te hinu taramea me kore ngā tāhae pūrotu e kōingo mai ki a ia (PK 2008:114). / The girl applied taramea scent to her neck in the hope that the handsome fellows would desire her.
5. (noun) excrement, filth.
Ka hangā hoki e ia te heketua hei whakareinga mō ngā tāhae (NM 1928:27). / He also built the lavatory to dispose of the excrement.
taha
1. (verb) to pass by.
Kua taha ngā rā i hao ai i te ika o te moana, o te wai māori (TP 1/1/1901:6). / The days have passed to net the fish of the ocean and fresh water.
Synonyms: tīpoka, pahika, hiemi, hihipa, hemo, hipa, whakatataha, tāhapa, tohipa, kopa, kape, whakatipi, numi, pahemo, pahure, paneke, whakahipa, whakataha
2. (noun) side, margin, edge, bank (of a river), beside.
Ka ahiahi ka kite rāua i tētahi tohorā, ko te upoko i mā, e mānu haere ana i te taha o tō rāua poti, mōhio tonu ake rāua he raiti wēra (TP 10/1902:10). / When it was evening they saw a whale and its head was white and it was floating along beside their boat, so they knew that it was a right whale.
3. (noun) part, portion, section.
Kātahi ka kōwhakina tētehi wāhi o tōna kōhatu kiripaka - ko tētehi taha i mahue atu i Moehau (JPS 1893:224). / He then broke off a portion of his flint-stone - the other portion was left at Moehau.
Synonyms: tūtanga, hea, pīhi, maramara, tiri, kōwai, wae, kōwaewae, kaupeka, kōwae, wāhi, moka, kōihi, wāhanga, wawae, tūāporo, tekihana, tekiona, wehenga, whiti, rārangi
2. (noun) leg-side.
2. (noun) practical.
taha pounamu
1. (noun) blue shark, Prionace glauca - sometimes as taha-pounamu or tahapounamu. Light-bodied with long pectoral fins. Body slender, tapering from the snout. The top of the body is deep blue, lighter on the sides, and the underside is white. The male blue shark commonly grows to 1.82 to 2.82 m at maturity, whereas the larger females commonly grow to 2.2 to 3.3 m. They feed primarily on small fish and squid, although they can take larger prey. Common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand.
See also aupounamu
Synonyms: matawhā, mangō au pounamu, mangō pounamu, ngengero, aupounamu
taha Māori
1. (noun) Māori identity, Māori character, Māori side, Māori heritage, Māori ancestry, Māori descent.
Kitea ana tōna kaingākau ki tana taha Māori i te nui o ngā whakataukī nāna i kohi mai, he mea āta tuhi ā-ringa tonu e ia ki runga kāri (TTR 1998:6). / Balneavis's interest in his Maori heritage was evident in the large number of whakatauki (proverbs) that he collected, which he meticulously hand-wrote on cards.
2. (noun) part-Māori.
Ko tana tangata tohutohu i a ia ko Tom Jones, he taha Māori, he taha Pākehā hoki nei ōna (TTR 1994:91). / His adviser was Tom Jones, who was part-Māori and part-European.
2. (modifier) selling illegally, selling fraudulently.
I ēnei marama ka hori ake nei, ka tomokia e ngā pirihimana tētahi whare hoko tāhae i te waipiro i Pōneke (TPH 31/1/1912:6). / In the past months, the police entered a building in Wellington selling liquor illegally.
3. (noun) fraudulent transaction.
Kua tae mai ki konei te taniwha kai whenua nei, a Te Make, he hoko tāhae i tō mātou whenua i Wharekahika (TWMNT 1/2/1879:275). / Mr Mackay, the land devouring taniwha has been here, for the purpose of fraudulently purchasing our land at Hicks Bay.
moe tāhae
1. (verb) to commit adultery.
E ono marama i muri mai ka whakahaua e Īhāia a Rīmene o Ngāti Ruanui kia patua. Nā tērā i moe tāhae a Hāriata, te wahine a Īhāia (TTR 1990:214). / Six months after this Īhaia had Rīmene of Ngāti Ruanui killed for committing adultery with Hāriata, Īhaia's wife.
2. (noun) adultery, fornication, consenting sex involving someone unmarried.
Nā, whakamatea ō koutou wāhi i runga i te whenua; te moe tāhae, te poke, te minamina ki te hē, te hiahia kino, me te apo, he karakia whakapakoko hoki tēnā (PT Korohe 3:5). / Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
taha o te rangi
1. (noun) edge of the heavens, horizon.
Ko Kahukura rāua ko Tūāwhiorangi, he atua ēnā, tō rāua matua ko te imurangi e mau mai nā i te taha o te rangi (W 1971:77). / Kahukura and Tūāwhiorangi, those are atua and their father is the fragmentary rainbow that is held on the edge of the heavens.
