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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.

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Synonyms: wai

Ngāti Awa

1. (personal noun) tribal group of the Whakatāne and Te Teko areas.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 42;)

awa kōpaka

1. (noun) glacier.

He putunga tio te awa kōpaka e āta pōturi te heke whakararo i ngā maunga. / A glacier is a body of ice slowly moving down from the mountains.

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rerenga awa wahine

1. (noun) menstruation.

Āti Awa, Te

1. (personal noun) tribal group to the north-east of Mount Taranaki including the Waitara and New Plymouth areas. A section of Te Āti Awa moved to parts of the Wellington area and the northern South Island in the 1820s.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 89, 113;)

Awa-whakatipu, Te

1. (location) Dart River (flows into the northern end of Lake Whakatipu).

awa o te atua

1. (noun) menstrual cycle.

hiko ā-awa

1. (modifier) hydro electric.

Ko tētahi wāhi mahi anō ōna ko tērā i te kaupapa hiko ā-awa o Waikaremoana (TTR 2000:170). / Another place he was employed was on the Waikaremoana Hydro Electric Power Scheme.

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Awa-kairangi, Te

1. (location) Hutt River.

Awa-nui-a-rangi

1. (personal name) ancestor of both Ngāti Awa of the Bay of Plenty and Te Āti Awa of Taranaki.

Awa-i-taia, Wiremu Nēra Te

1. (personal name) (?-1866) Waikato, Ngāti Māhanga; chief, missionary, assessor and mediator from the Ngāti Māhanga tribe who opposed the setting up of the Kīngitanga.

ngutuawa

1. (noun) river mouth, estuary.

Ka hoe mātau ki te ngutuawa (HP 1991:16). / We paddled to the river mouth.

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Synonyms: koniu, pūaha, ngutu, pūao, pūwaha, pūau

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.

Rua o Takurua, Te

1. (personal noun) (July)  second lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to July and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.


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.

Rua o Takurua, Te

1. (personal noun)  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.

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Rima o Kōpū, Te

1. (personal noun) fifth lunar month of the Māori year - approximately equivalent to October and traditionally used by Ngāti Awa.

Kai-tātea

1. (personal noun) eighth lunar month of the Māori lunar calendar - approximately equivalent to January and traditionally usd by Ngāti Awa.

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.

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