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tuhinga

1. (noun) document, text, writing, script.

He maha anō hoki ngā tuhinga atu a Tāmihana ki te kāwana i muri mai ki te kī atu, kāhore kau te Māori e rapu whawhai ana, me te pātai he aha te take e hanga nei i ngā rāihe me ngā huarahi mai i Ākarana ki ngā rohe ki te raki o Waikato (TTR 1990:322). / Tamihana later wrote more letters to the governor, saying that the Māori were not seeking war, and questioning the construction of redoubts and roads between Auckland and northern Waikato.

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Synonyms: tuhi

whakarauwaka tuhinga

1. (noun) typesetter.

kaiwhakatika tuhinga

1. (noun) editor.

tuhinga hukihuki

1. (noun) draft, preliminary version, preliminary writing.

Nō tana oranga mai, ka mahi a Pēneti ki raro i a Meiha Tianara Howard Kippenberger i te Puna Kōrero Tuku Iho mō te Pakanga o te Tari Taiwhenua, e tuhi ana i tētehi tuhinga hukihuki mō te hītori o te hokowhitu Māori (TTR 2000:19). / After his recovery Bennett worked under Major General Howard Kippenberger on the draft of the Māori Battalion’s history with the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs.

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momo tuhinga

1. (noun) genre, category of literature.

tuhinga auaha

1. (noun) creative writing.

tuhinga totoko

1. (noun) creative writing.

tuhinga ingoa

1. (noun) signature.

He whākorekore ki te tuhinga ingoa ki ngā pukapuka tuku whenua (TWMNT 15/10/1873:125). / Denials of having signed land deeds.

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tuhinga whakapae

1. (noun) thesis, theses, indictment.

Hore kau ana i oti i a ia tana tuhinga whakapae, ka whakaae kē nei ia ki te tono mai a te Pirimia, a Waata Naahi i Hepetema o te tau 1958, kia haere ia ki te Kotahitanga o Mareia – ā taihoa ake ko Marēhia te ingoa – hei māngai kāwanatanga mō Aotearoa (TTR 2000:20). / His thesis was not completed. Instead in September 1958 he agreed to the request of the Prime Minister, Walter Nash to go as New Zealand high commissioner to the Federation of Malaya – eventually known as Malaysia.

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tuhinga whakarāpopoto

1. (noun) abstract, summary, synopsis, precis.

tuhinga whakapā hē

1. (noun) (justice) charge.

tāpae tuhinga whakapae

1. (transitive verb) indict.

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