2. (noun) shame.
Kei te kōrerotia ana mahi whakarihariha, kua noho ko te ngaringariā te kai (PK 2008:518). / His disgusting behaviour is being talked about and shame rests upon him.
Synonyms: poapoataunu, māteatea, whakamā
māteatea
1. (verb) to be ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject.
I māteatea te hinganga o te taha makau (Ng 1993:214). / The favourite side suffered an ignominious defeat (Ng 1993:214).
Synonyms: taurekareka
2. (modifier) ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject, dishonourable.
Ko tana whanonga māteatea te whakamātanga a ōna hoa mahi (Ng 1993:102). / His dishonourable behaviour was an embarrassment to his colleagues (Ng 1993:102).
3. (noun) shame, distress, disgrace, scandal, embarrassment.
Ka tau mai te māteatea ki ngā mātua mō te patunga a tā rāua tama i tana wahine. / Embarrassment overwhelmed the parents about their son beating his wife.
Synonyms: poapoataunu, whakamā, ngaringariā, heitara, paki, pakiwaitara, pakitara, tara, tarawau
taurekareka
1. (verb) (-tia) to be enslaved.
Nō muri mai i tō rātou whakarerenga i tērā kāinga i te tekau tau atu i 1850, ko te āhua nei, i noho kē mai ia ki Te Ara-a-Kiwa, kia kore a ia e whakahokia ki Wharekauri, taurekareka ai (TTR 1976:172). / After their abandonment of that home in the 1850s, it would seem that she settled in Foveaux Strait to avoid returning to the Chatham Islands, to slavery.
2. (modifier) dastardly, shameful, low, base, dishonourable.
Kātahi te mahi taurekareka rawa atu a ngā kaimahi Pākehā i kitea ko tēnei! (TTR 2000:122). / This was the most dastardly action ever committed by Pākehā workers.
Synonyms: pāpaku, hangahanga, hakahaka, hahaka, māteatea
3. (noun) captive taken in war, slave, prisoner of war.
He tikanga hē te whakatupu ake i ngā kōtiro hei pononga, hei taurekareka mā te tāne (TTT 1/12/1929:1955). / It is wrong to raise girls as servants and slaves for men.
4. (noun) scoundrel, idiot, rascal, rogue.
Ko wai te taurekareka nāna nei i waiho te hō ki konei takoto ai? (HW 1969:59). / Who was the idiot who left the spade lying here?
Synonyms: whiro, nauwhea, nanakia, tainanakia, nauhea
[tō] kaha kē
1. you've got a nerve, you've got a cheek, that's not on, shame on you, you're a dick - sometimes used as an idiom to criticise someone's actions.
Pare: Anei ā tāua rare - nāku i tango mai i ngā tamariki rā. Rangi: Tō kaha kē! (HKK 1999:84). / Pare: Here are our sweets - I took them from those children. Rangi: Shame on you!
Tō koutou kaha kē ki te mātakitaki noa atu i te kuia rā e hauhake ana i ana taewa (HKK 1999:84). / Shame on you just watching that elderly woman harvesting her potatoes.
Te kaha kē o Pukupā ki te pati moni i te wahine e hia kē nei ana tamariki (HKK 1999:84). / Pukupā has got a nerve begging money from that woman who has so many children.
poapoataunu
1. (noun) stigma, shame.
Synonyms: māteatea, whakamā, ngaringariā
whakamā
1. (verb) to be ashamed, shy, bashful, embarrassed.
Ki te haere au ki te tāone he tarau poto, kāore he tōkena, ka kite tonu au i ngā tāngata e tiro mākutu ana ki te nawe o taku waewae, ka whakamā au (HP 1991:21). / If I went to town in shorts and no soxs, I saw people staring at the scar on my leg and I was embarrassed.
Synonyms: numinumi, konekone, matakakā, pūihi, matakā, matawhiwhiu, matakana, memeke, hūiki, hihira, mokepūihi
2. (modifier) ashamed, shy, bashful, embarrassed.
He tangata whakamā au ki tēnei mahi (JPS 1946:19). / I am a person that is embarrassed by this sort of thing.
3. (noun) shame, embarrassment.
Ka kite au i ngā tāngata me ngā wāhine e puta hurori mai ana ki waho, hāmama ana ō rātou māngai, puta ana ngā kupu a tētahi ki tētahi, tau mai ana te whakamā ki ahau; tū ana ngā haka me ngā ruriruri, he nui atu te kino o ngā kōrero, ānō kua rēweratia (KO 17/5/1886:4). / I saw men and women staggering out, shouting to each other, and I was ashamed; they performed haka and bawdy ditties and what they said was terrible, as if they had been taken over by the devil.
Synonyms: poapoataunu, māteatea, ngaringariā
