2. (verb) to become extinct.
Kīhai a Māui i pai kia mate rawa atu te tangata, ki te tino meto rawa atu (White 2 1889:84). / Māui did not want humans to die, to become extinct.
See also korehāhā
2. (verb) Climb.
3. (noun) Dinornis gigantea and other species; extinct birds of the order Dinornithi-formes.
4. (verb) Lay in a heap.
5. (noun) A stone often found in spherical masses, some compound of iron , also called moamoa.
ngaro
1. (verb) (-mia) to be hidden, out of sight, covered, disappeared, absent.
Ko te wāhi e tārewa ana ko ngā roto kei waenganui i ngā whenua, ko ngā parumoana, arā ko ngā whenua e pā ana ki ngā moana, e ngaromia ana e te tai pari. Ki te Māori he whenua ēnei nōna (TTT 1/8/1922:13). / The part still unresolved relates to lakes within the land and the seabed, that is the land associated with the sea which is covered by the high tide. To the Māori this land belongs to them.
Synonyms: makaro, henumi, tārekoreko, kaitu, tamō, matangaro, hōnea, riua, tuakaihau
2. (verb) (-mia) to destroy.
Ko ngā kai katoa i ngakia mō tēnei tau ngaromia katoatia e te wai, tanumia iho ki raro e te onepū i te mimititanga o ngā wai (TWMNT 22/2/1876:40). / All the food that had been cultivated for this year was completely destroyed, buried in the sand when the water subsided.
3. (stative) be missing, lost, consumed, gone, extinct.
Mahara noa a Tiopira kua mate ina hoki te roa e ngaro ana ki raro, mahue atu i a ia tana rāti (TP 10/1902:11). / Tiopira thought that it was dead due to the length of time it had been below, so he put down his harpoon.
4. (modifier) secretly, hidden, undetected, unnoticed.
Rongo kau anō te tupua rā i te haunga āhua tangata, heoi ka puta kei waho o tōna rua, haere ngaro atu te ope rā, haere ngaro mai ana te tupua nei; kite noa ake, ehara, kua tata (NM 1928:126). / That demon smelt the odour of human form it emerged outside its lair, so that party and this demon were moving along secretly. When they finally saw each other, low and behold, they were close.
Synonyms: tārehu, torohū, toropuku, whakamokeke, muna, tōngā, hū, kōkuhu, puku
2. (noun) an extinct nocturnal bird, New Zealand snipe, Coenocorypha aucklandica - a small rotund variegated brown wader with a long slightly drooping brown bill and short legs. Found on preator-free islands in the subantarctic.
Ka whatiwhati koa ngā paihau o te hōkio (M 2006:214). / The wings of the hōkio move slowly in flight (M 2006:215).
See also hōkioi
hōkiwai
1. (noun) an extinct nocturnal bird.
Hōkio: Ko ētahi ingoa he hōkioi, he hakuai, he hōkiwai: he manu kua ngaro; e kīia ana he manu rere pō, whakangaro ai i a ia, kāore e kitea ana (M 2006:218). / Hōkio: Other names are hōkioi, hākuwai and hōkiwai: an extinct bird; said to be a night-flying bird which hid itself and wasn't seen.
korehāhā
1. (verb) to be annihilated, extinct, eradicated, exterminated, become obsolete.
I te wā nei kua ngingio, kua paroparo noa iho te pūtea a te Taura Whiri, otirā anei pea e whai ake nei tētahi ara e oraiti ai ngā kupu-ā-iwi kua korehāhā haere (HM 1/1994:3). / At the moment the Māori Language Commission's funding has dried-up and shrunk, but here perhaps the following is a way whereby the dialectal words that are becoming obsolete can survive.
2. (noun) annihilation, extinction, eradication, extermination.
Kāore rātou i pīrangi kia hoepapatia a Ngāti Toa ki te korehāhā (TTR 1990:298). / They did not wish to see Ngāti Toa destroyed to the point of extinction.
moakirua
1. (noun) A bird like moho, but extinct.
See also moho
mate ā-moa
1. (verb) to be exterminated, disappear, lost forever.
Ka pai tonu te kohikohi i ngā kupu pēnei i te wā e whakamahia tonuhia ana, ka tāpiri atu ki ngā kupu e noho mai ana i rō papakupu Māori. Kei tūpono ka ngaro haere i roto i ngā tau, ā, mate ā-moa tonu atu (HM 2/1998:4). / It's quite good collecting words like this when they are still being used and adding them to the words sitting in Māori dictionaries, lest they disappear over the years and are lost forever.
2. (noun) extinction.
Heoi he mea uaua ka kitea ngā taunakitanga mō te mate ā-moa o tētahi manu, kararehe rānei i te mea, iti noa ngā taunakitanga ka tohu nā te aha i mate ai tētahi kararehe (Te Ara 2011). / But proof of extinctions of birds or animals is hard to find, as there is very little evidence as to what killed an animal.
hōkioi
1. (noun) an extinct nocturnal bird, New Zealand snipe, Coenocorypha aucklandica - a small rotund variegated brown wader with a long slightly drooping brown bill and short legs. Found on preator-free islands in the subantarctic.
He hākuwai (hōkioi) anake hoki te manu e whakahua ana i tōna ingoa (TTT 1/9/1924:112). / A hōkioi is the only bird that calls its own name.
2. (noun) quail, New Zealand quail, Coturnix novaezealandiae - a small extinct bird of open country.
Nā ka puta he hau i a Ihowa, ā kawea ana mai ngā koitareke i te moana, kua maka ki te taha o te puni, kia kotahi pea te rā e haere ai i tētahi taha, kia kotahi pea hoki te rā e haere ai i tērā taha, ā tawhio noa te puni, me te mea anō e rua whatīanga te teitei i runga i te mata o te whenua (PT Tauanga 11:31). / And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high on the face of the earth.
Synonyms: whakaririka, maopo, tāreke, tūpererū, whēwhī, koutareke, koreke, kōkōreke, kāreke
upokororo
1. (noun) New Zealand grayling, Prototroctes oxyrhynchus - a small slender fish, silvery, sometimes with a reddish back. Was caught in large numbers and found only in lowland rivers and streams. They spawned in freshwater streams and developing to maturity in saltwater. Their length was between 20 and 40 cm. Although once common in Aotearoa/New Zealand streams, it is now extinct, possibly because of the introduction of trout.
Ka hīia te hāpuku, te warehou, te tāmure, te upokororo ki Te Tai Rāwhiti (Te Ara 2011). / Groper, warehou and snapper were caught, and grayling were caught on the East Coast.
2. (noun) moa - large extinct flightless birds of nine subspecies endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Titiro ana ngā Pākehā ki te nui o aua takahanga, me te mataratanga o te hīkoinga. Ka mea rātou, he moa pea i roto i ngā awa kōwhatu o taua whenua e noho ana (TH 1/7/1861:4). / The Pākehā looked at the size of those footprints and the length of the strides. They said that there were probably moa living in the rocky valleys of that land.
koea
1. (noun) Delcourt's sticky-toed gecko, Delcourt's giant gecko, Hoplodactylus delcourti - a species of lizard which was the largest of all geckos at over 600 mm long. Endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand but now thought to be extinct.
Ka kitea te koea, he aituā, he kaupapa tahuri (W 1971:122). / When a Delcourt's sticky-toed gecko was seen, there was a misfortune, a failed project.
See also kaweau
koeau
1. (noun) Delcourt's sticky-toed gecko, Delcourt's giant gecko, Hoplodactylus delcourti - a species of lizard which was the largest of all geckos at over 600 mm long. Endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand but now thought to be extinct.
See also kaweau
