Haratua
1. (personal noun) twelfth lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to May.
Me tae mai ā koutou taonga whakataetae ki tēnei tari i mua i te 31 o ngā rā o Haratua 1990 (HM 1/1990:3). / Your competition masterpieces must reach this office before 31 May 1990.
Synonyms: Maramarima, Mei, Hakiharatua
2. (noun) twelfth lunar month of the Māori year, May.
Ki taku titiro, i tīmata te Haratua i te 28 o ngā pō o Āperira, nā ko te Tahi o Pipiri ka tīmata i te 27 o ngā rā o Mei (TTT 1/6/1922:13). / According to my observation, the month of Haratua begins on the 28th night of April, and the month of Tahi o Pipiri begins on the 27 of May.
haratua
1. (noun) (-ina) to dress timber lengthwise with an adze.
Nāu te waka nei i haratua, i tāmaku (W 1971:37). / You adzed this canoe with even strokes.
Ko te tino tikanga o te kupu 'haratua' he tapahi, he tārai. Tētahi atu tikanga o tēnei kupu he whakangā (HM 2/1990:3). / The real meaning of the word 'haratua' is to cut and to fashion. Another meaning of this word is to rest.
2. (verb) (-ina) to cut, gash.
He mea haratua te kiko ki te tūhua (PK 2008:81). / The flesh was cut with obsidian.
pekepeke-haratua
1. (noun) crane fly, daddy-long-legs.
Ka whakahaua e Whiro āna tini, ngā namu poto, ngā naonao, ngā rō, ngā peketua, ngā pepe-te-muimui, ngā pekepeke haratua, ētahi manu, ētahi pekapeka (Te Ara 2012). / Whiro sent his army – small sandflies, midges, stick insects, centipedes, butterflies, and crane flies, as well as some birds and some bats.
