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papatupu

1. (modifier) traditionally owned, customary title, ancestral (of land).

E ai ki tāna i tautohe ai, kāore e taea te whakarite te kāpeneheihana me ka mahue te wāriu i ngā whare Māori, he wāhanga tonu hoki nō te kāinga papatupu, ko tōna wāriu kē i mahia i runga i te tikanga me te aroha Māori (TTR 1998:136). / He argued that compensation could not be determined if the value of Māori buildings, as part of an ancestral village, was left out, its value was made as a result of the culture and Māori concern.

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2. (noun) ancestral land - Māori land held under customary title and not having a European title.

Ko taua wāhi, he papatupu,he whenua mau tonu i a mātou (TW 27/7/1878:379). / That place is ancestral land, land we have retained continuously.

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3. (noun) solid mass.

I a au te papatupu o te oneone (W 1971:261). / I had the solid mass of soil.

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papatipu

1. (modifier) traditionally owned, customary title, ancestral (of land).

E ai ki te pūrongo i tukua e Te Make ki te Pāremata, kei te mau tonu te mana papatipu o Ngāi Tahu ki te whenua, i runga i te take tipuna, i te take raupatu me te take ahikāroa (TTR 1994:101). / According to the report submitted by Mackay to Parliament, the Ngāi Tahu customary title to the land was still retained on the grounds of heredity, conquest and occupation.

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2. (noun) ancestral land - Māori land held under customary title and not having a European title.

He kōrero nui mō Maruiwi i ngā tātai kōrero o neherā. He iwi nō te papatipu, ko Pūtauaki, ko te awa o Tauranga (Waimana) ōna nohoanga (M 2004:32). / The story concerning the Maruiwi is important In the traditional accounts. They were a tribe that lived on the ancestral lands at Mount Edgecumbe and the Waimana Valley.

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3. (noun) solid mass.

He papatipu te uku (PK 2008:591). / Clay is a solid mass.

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4. (noun) mass.

Ko te karamu me te manokaramu hei waeine mō te papatipu (RP 2009:314). / The gram and kilogram are units for measuring mass (RP 2009:314).

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Synonyms: ngahue

whenua papatupu

1. (noun) land held under customary title, ancestral land - the base upon which the hapū was nurtured.

Ka hangaia he whare mōna i runga i ōna whenua papatupu i Maungaroa, e tūtata atu ana ki Te Kaha (TTR 1996:58). / A house was built for her on her ancestral land at Maungaroa, near Te Kaha.

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Synonyms: whenua papatipu

whenua papatipu

1. (noun) land held under customary title, ancestral land - the base upon which the hapū was nurtured.

I ngā tekau tau o 1820, o 1830, ka whakarērea e Te Āti Awa ō rātou whenua papatipu ki Taranaki (Te Ara 2014). / In the 1820s and 1830s, Te Āti Awa left their ancestral lands in Taranaki.

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Synonyms: whenua papatupu

ipukarea

1. (noun) ancestral home, homeland, native land, inherited land - significant water or geographical feature of a tribe's homeland relating to the tribe's identity and the source of their livelihood. Describes a body of water within a vessel, a place that represents the history and emotional attachment of the tribe, a place central to the identity of the people where they can go to be rejuvenated, a place that represents the hopes and aspirations of the people, the lifegiving waters from which they drink. It is also the place associated with significant battles of the tribe and where the bones of their ancestors lie. As an example, Lake Waikaremoana is the ipukarea of Ngāi Tūhoe.

Ka whakahokahokai anō au kia topa iho i te ipukarea a Kahumatamomoe ki te riu o te waka Te Arawa (Wh4 2004:201). / I stretch out to soar down the ancestral homeland of Kahumatamomoe to the bilge of the Te Arawa canoe.

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take tupuna

1. (noun) ancestral land right - continuous occupation of land through several generations.

Nāwai ā, ka hanumi te take whenua kite ki te take tupuna. Mā te take tupuna kaha ake ai te kerēme a ngā uri whakaheke ki te whenua i nōhia tuatahitia e ō rātou tūpuna. Mā te whakapapa e whakaatu ai i te take tupuna (Te Ara 2014). / Over time the right of first discovery merged with ancestral rights. Ancestral rights strengthened descendants' claims to land, if it was still occupied by the descendants of those ancestors. Ancestral land rights are shown through genealogies.

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