kahukura
1. (stative) be multicoloured.
Synonyms: kanorau
2. (noun) rainbow.
Ka tare i runga he haki, he kara, ko ngā āhua katoa o te kahukura e tāwhana nei i runga (TP 1/2/1901:13). / Hanging on it was a flag with all the colours of the rainbow forming an arch on it.
Synonyms: Uenuku, Tūāwhiorangi, āniwaniwa, kōpere, Ōuenuku, tāwhana, tāwhanawhana, āheahea, atuapiko
4. (noun) cloak coloured with red ochre.
Kahukura
1. (personal name) a name of several atua and ancestors, including: the atua of the rainbow, the ancestor of the North who learnt the art of netmaking from the patupaiarehe, an atua of war, and the ancestor who returned to Hawaiki on Horouta to bring the kūmara to Aotearoa.
Ka tukuna mai e ia ana karere ki te tango i te āria o Māui, arā i tētahi wāhi o ōna toto, hei mākutu māna. Ka tukuna mai ko Kahukura, he pūrerehua; ka pākia e Māui, ka mate tērā (M 2006:206). / She sent her messengers to take away the likeness of Māui; that is, some of his blood, upon which she could exercise black magic. So she sent Kahukura the moth, and Māui slapped at it,and killed it (M 2006:207).
Ka tū a Kahukura, e rua i te tūranga, ko te tāne, ko te wahine. Te ingoa o te wahine ko Tūāwhiorangi, te ingoa o te tāne ko Kahukura (W 1971:448). / When Kahukura appears, there are two parts, the male and the female. The name of the female is Tūāwhiorangi, the name of the male is Kahukura.
See also atua, Uenuku, Haere, Tūāwhiorangi
arero whero o Kahukura
1. (adjective) The red tongue of Kahukura: an accomplished male performer of haka.
Hīnawanawa ana te kiri i kitenga o te arero whero o Kahukura, / The skin shivers at the sight of the dreaded exponent of haka.
Synonyms: kaiwhakaataata, kaihaka, kaiwhakatau, kaiwhakaari
Tūāwhiorangi
1. (personal name) rainbow - a personification of the rainbow and wife of Kahukura. Said to be the bottom one of a double rainbow.
Ka tū a Kahukura, e rua i te tūranga, ko te tāne, ko te wahine. Te ingoa o te wahine ko Tūāwhiorangi, te ingoa o te tāne ko Kahukura (W 1971:448). / When Kahukura appears, there are two parts, the male and the female. The name of the female is Tūāwhiorangi, the name of the male is Kahukura.
Synonyms: kahukura, Uenuku, āniwaniwa, kōpere, Ōuenuku, tāwhana, tāwhanawhana, āheahea, atuapiko
2. (noun) spectrum.
I rapu te Māori ki tētahi wāhi o te tūāwhiorangi ki raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Ara 2009). / Māori sought a share of the spectrum under the Treaty of Waitangi.
