awa
1. (noun) river, stream, creek, canal, gully, gorge, groove, furrow.
Ahakoa te kino o ngā rā o te hōtoke o tērā tau, e 40 anake ngā hōkete i toromi i te waipuketanga o te awa (TRA 1/1/1929:914). / Despite the bad weather in winter last year, only 40 hoggets drowned when the river flooded.
Synonyms: wai
awa o te atua
1. (noun) menstrual cycle.
Synonyms: mate wahine, mate marama
Mead, Hirini Moko
1. Ngāti Awa; carver, writer, professor and leader of Ngāti Awa. Educated at Te Teko, St Stephen's School, Te Aute, University of Auckland and the University of Southern Illinois from which he graduated with a PhD. Lecturer at the University of Auckland and then founding Professor of Māori at Victoria University of Wellington. Establish Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi at Whakatāne. Chief negotiator for the Ngāti Awa claims settled in 2005. He was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 2003.
2. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
3. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
4. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
5. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
6. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
7. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
8. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
9. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
10. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
11. (personal noun) (July) second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
Toru o Hereturikōkā, Te
1. (personal noun) third lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to August and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
See also Hereturikōkā
Whā o Mahuru, Te
1. (personal noun) fourth lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to September and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
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 Poutū-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru mā tahi, Te Ngahuru mā 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.
See also Mahuru
Rima o Kōpū, Te
1. (personal noun) fifth lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to October and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.
See also Whiringa-ā-nuku
Synonyms: Rima o Hiringa-a-nuku, Maramatekau, Oketopa, Whiringa-ā-nuku, Kōpū, Hiringa-ā-nuku
Kai-tātea
1. (personal noun) eighth lunar month of the Māori lunar calendar - approximately equivalent to January and traditionally usd by Ngāti Awa.
Synonyms: Kohitātea, Maramatahi, Hānuere
kōngutu
1. (noun) mouth (of a river, etc.) - often as kōngutu awa.
Whakamahia anō ngā angaanga hei kanohi mō ngā whakairo. Ko te kōngutu o te angaanga ka auahatia hei mahi pā kahawai (Te Ara 2012). / The shells are used for the eyes in carvings, and the mouth of the shell was fashioned into a fishing lure.
