poka pū
1. (noun) centre spot, direct route, short cut, middle, centre, hub, bull's-eye, core, nucleus, axis, agency.
I mea ia me taiāwhio pea tana haere rā tahaki, e kore e poka pū tana haere i waenganui taua koraha (TWMNT 24/3/1874:71). / He decided that he should probably go around the side and not straight through the middle of the open country.
See also pokapū
Synonyms: waengapū, waengarahi, pokapū, pokapūtanga, wē
pokapū
1. (noun) centre spot, direct route, short cut, middle, centre, hub, bull's-eye, core, nucleus, axis, agency - sometimes as two words, i.e. poka pū.
I ngā tekau tau o 1920, o 1930, ka aratakina e te mokopuna a Tāwhiao, e Te Puea Hērangi, tōna iwi ki te whakatū i te marae o Tūrangawaewae i Ngāruawāhia. Koinei te pokapū o te Kīngitanga (Te Ara 2014). / In the 1920s and 1930s Te Puea Hērangi, Tāwhiao's granddaughter, led the Waikato people in establishing Tūrangawaewae marae at Ngāruawāhia. This is the centre of the King movement.
Synonyms: waengapū, waengarahi, poka pū, pokapūtanga, wē
2. (noun) (sport) half-way line.
Mangatoatoa
1. (location) a location on the banks of the Pūniu river west of Te Awamutu regarded as the centre of the Tainui territory.
Kei te pepeha nei ngā whakamārama mō ngā whenua o ngā iwi o Tainui: Mōkau ki runga, Tāmaki ki raro, Mangatoatoa ki waenganui, ko Pare Waikato, ko Pare Hauraki, ko te Kaokaoroa-o-Pātetere (Te Ara 2011). / The lands of the Tainui tribes are described in the saying: Mōkau above, Tāmaki below, Mangatoatoa in the centre, and there is Pare Waikato, Pare Hauraki, and the extended arm of Pātetere.
tokomanawa
1. (noun) centre ridge pole of a meeting house (usually pou tokomanawa).
See also pou tokomanawa
pūtahi
1. (verb) (-ngia) to join, meet.
Ka tono a Te Rangimōwaho ki a Ngāti Koura, i runga i te kaupapa kia pūtahi rātau ki te pakanga ki te hoariri (TTR 1990:237). / Te Rangimōwaho made a request to Ngāti Koura that they join to fight the enemy.
See also waero pūtahi
Synonyms: karahui, whakatūtataki, hui, tūtaki, tūtataki, whakatūtaki, huihui, tūtakitaki, honohono, tūhono, tūhonohono, hono, kuhukuhu, porotūtaki, porotūtataki, uhono, whakakapiti, tāpiri, whakauru, pāhekoheko, hiki, tūhoto, uru, whakamoemoe, whakatapoko, haumi
2. (noun) confluence, intersection.
3. (noun) meeting place, centre.
Ko tōna pūtahi i te awa o Tauranga (M 2005:134). / Its meeting place was the Tauranga river.
Synonyms: tūtakitanga, kāpunipunitanga
4. (noun) long clouds, stratus - cloud forming a continuous horizontal grey sheet.
Ātaahua ana ngā pūtahi i ngā kaokao o te pae maunga (PK 2008:727). / The stratus clouds on the flanks of the mountain range are quite beautiful.
5. (noun) centre of the star-like pattern for mū tōrere.
2. (noun) shopping plaza.
2. (noun) centre.
2. (noun) (agency) centre.
