tuangahuru
1. (modifier) tenth.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 11;)
Ko te Huihuinga Tuatahi o te Pāremete tuangahuru o Niu Tīreni, i whakatuwheratia e te Kāwana i tēnei rā (KO 18/11/1887:2). / The first assembly of the tenth New Zealand Parliament was opened by the Governor on this day.
See also tua-
whakatekau
1. (noun) to tithe, tenth part - give one-tenth of one's produce or earnings. This is a particular use of the prefix whaka- with numerals for fractions but is uncommon in modern Māori.
Āta wehea te whakatekau o ēnei moni mō ngā mahi a Ihowā tō tātou Atua, arā, mō Tōna Hāhi, mō te kawe i te Rongo Pai ki ngā Tauiwi, mō te whāngai rawakore, pouaru, tūroro, me ērā atu tini mahi pai, mahi aroha (TP 1/9/1901:5). / Carefully divide off a tenth of this money for the work of Jehovah, our God, that is, for His Church, for conveying the Gospel to the heathens, for feeding the poor, widows, invalids, and for those many good works and deeds of charity.
ngahuru
1. (numeral) ten, tenth (following te) - used in a similar way to tekau but less frequently. Combines with other words to form the numbers from 11 to 19.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 12;)
Ā pēnei tonu tae rawa ki te ngahuru o ngā rāngi (NM 1928:177). / And it continued like this until he reached the tenth heaven.
I te wā ka tae ki te ngahuru mā whā o ngā rā ka tae katoa mai ngā tohunga nei ki te mahi i te waka nei (JPS 1957:223). / When it came to the fourteenth day all the experts came to work on the canoe.
Hei te tīmatanga o ngā ua o te marama ngahuru ka tipu haere ēnei kai ki runga i te ākau (Te Ara 2016). / It grows on the reef at the beginning of the rains of the tenth month.
See also ngahuru mā tahi, ngahuru mā rua, ngahuru mā toru, ngahuru mā whā, ngahuru mā rima, ngahuru mā ono, ngahuru mā whitu, ngahuru mā waru, ngahuru mā iwa, tekau, tuangahuru
2. (noun) tenth month of the Māori year, autumn, harvest time - approximately equivalent to March.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 12;)
Haria mai ana e ia he paruparu nō te awa, ngā rau e horohoro nei i te tino ngahuru, he whenua tawhito anō hoki, mahia katoatia ana e ia hei whakamōmona i tana pāmu (TH 1/12/1859:3). / He carries soil from the river, leaves that fall in the autumn as it is old ground and he does it all to make his farm fertile.
Poutūterangi
1. (personal noun) tenth lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to March. Also the name of Altair, the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila, whose appearance in the night sky heralds the start of the month. Others say that Ōtamarākau (Fomalhaut) is the star of the lunar month of Poutūterangi.
Poutūterangi: Kua hauhake te kai (Best 1922:16). / Poutūterangi: The crops are harvested.
2. (personal noun) Altair - the brightest star in the constellation Aquila.
tekau
1. (numeral) ten, 10 - originally it meant 20 as it, or its cognate forms, do in other eastern Polynesian languages. Tekau combines with other words to form the numbers from 11 to 99.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 5; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 12;)
Kotahi rau e toru tekau mātau i te kura (HP 1991:32). / There were one hundred and thirty of us in the school.
2. (numeral) tenth - when used with this meaning it is preceded by te and followed by o.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 5; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 12;)
Nō te tekau o Ākuhata ka haere mātou. / On the tenth of August we departed.
Putoki-o-tau
1. (personal noun) tenth lunar month of the Māori year, approximately equivalent to March and traditionally used by Ngāti Kahungunu.
See also Poutūterangi
Ngahuru o Poutūterangi, Te
1. (personal noun) tenth lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to March.
Ko te putanga mai o Matariki te tohu mō te marama tuatahi, ko ngā ingoa hoki ēnei o ngā marama katoa: Te Tahi o Pipiri, Te Rua o Takurua,Te Toru Here o Pipiri, Te Whā o Mahuru, Te Rima o Kōpū, Te Ono o Whitiānaunau, Te Whitu o Hakihea, Te Waru o Rehua, Te Iwa o Rūhi-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru o Poutūterangi, Te Ngahuru mā tahi, Te Ngahuru ma rua (TP 1/3/1901:6). / The appearance of Pleiades is the sign for the first month and these are the names of all the months: The first is Pipiri, the second is Takurua, the third is Here o Pipiri, the fourth is Mahuru, the fifth is Kōpū, the sixth is Whiti-ānaunau, the seventh is Hakihea, the eighth is Rehua, the ninth is Rūhi-te-rangi, the tenth is Poutūterangi, the eleventh and twelfth months.
Huna
1. (personal noun) moon on the eleventh night of the lunar month, or sometimes the tenth night - for some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the twenty-sixth night of the lunar month.
E rua anake ngā kupu kua tuhia e ngā pakeke ki te taha i a Huna: 1. Tūpuhi; 2. Kino (WT 2013:67). / There are only two words that the elders have written beside Huna: 1. Emaciated; 2. Bad.
2. (noun) moon on the twenty-sixth night after the full moon.
Kia hoki ake anō ki te Huna nei. I kīia ake i mua nei, ko tōna tikanga kai te huna ngā mea katoa (WT 2013:66). / To return to this Huna. It was stated before that its meaning is that all things are hiding.
epa
1. (loan) (noun) ephah - an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, equal to a tenth of a homer or about one bushel (35 litres).
Kia kotahi te mehua mō te epa, mō te pati; ko te pati he whakatekau nō te homa, ko te epa hoki he whakatekau nō te homa (PT Ehekiera 45:11). / The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer.
2. (personal noun) Pluto - tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the sun.
He tawhiti kē noa ake a Whiro i te rā, tēnā i a Kōpū (HJ 2012:143). / Pluto is very much further away from the sun than Venus is.
Synonyms: Whiringa ki Tawhiti
Tangaroa-whakapau
1. (personal noun) moon on the twenty-fifth night of the lunar month - for some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the tenth night of the lunar month. Also as Tangaroa Whakapau.
Ko Tangaroa Whāriki Kiokio rāua ko Tangaroa Whakapau ngā pō taumata o te wā tino tiketike o te maramataka (WT 2013:34). / Tangaroa Whāriki Kiokio and Tangaroa Whakapau are the two best nights of the best period in the lunar month (WT 2013:34).
