waenga
1. (location) the middle, among, midst, amid, between, the intervening space - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence. Variation of waenganui.
E hoa mā, tēnei tāku honae hōkeke, he mea kohikohi nāku nō waenga i ngā kōtai i ngā pareparenga o te ngutuawa o Kawaora (TJ 9/11/1899:15). / Friends, this is my small basket of ear fungus which I collected amongst the alluvial soils on the banks of the Kawaroa estuary.
Synonyms: waenganui, waengarahi, kōpū
2. (location) garden - when no noun is expressed.
Tērā te koroheke rā kua tae ki waenga e ngaki ana. / There was the elderly man who had arrived to weed the garden.
2. (noun) gardening.
waerenga
1. (noun) clearing, cleared garden, garden plot.
I whakarite a Te Whatapoto i a ia ki a Apatahi, he tipuna nō Ngāti Parua, i pēnei hoki me Te Whatapoto, i tangi purapura mō tana mahinga i te waerenga (M 2007:366). / Te Whakapoto likened himself to Apatahi, an ancestor of Ngāti Parua who like Te Whakapoto begged for seeds for his cleared garden (M 2007:367)
māra tautāne
1. (noun) ceremonial garden - the signal to plant this garden is when Matariki rises in the Māori new year. All the crops grown in this garden, called huamata, were offered to Rongo, atua of cultivated food, and Matariki.
I mua o te onoono i ngā kūmara ki te māra nui, ka whakatōhia te māra tautāne (Te Ara 2011). / Before planting the kūmara in the main garden, there was a ceremonial planting in the special kūmara garden.
Kāri o Kehemane
1. (loan) (location) Garden of Gethsemane - garden between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives where Jesus went with his disciples after the Last Supper.
See also Kehemane
paruauru
1. (noun) one who cultivates the soil, gardener, labourer.
E kore te Māori e pai kia riro ana whenua ki te iwi kē, i te mea kei kīia ai he hunga, he pori, he paruauru, i te mea hoki he ingoa kino aua kupu ana kīia ki a ia e te iwi kē (TW 24/8/1878:418). / The Māori would never like his lands to be taken by another people lest he is called a slave, a dependant, a labourer because those words are bad names when he is called that by another race.
Synonyms: poroteke, ihu oneone
mahinga kai
1. (noun) garden, cultivation, food-gathering place.
Ko ngā otaota hoki o ngā pāmu kua maroke rawa atu, ānō he mea tahu ki te ahi. Waihoki me ngā tāngata Māori e auhi ana ki ā rātou mahinga kai (KO 15/1/1886:3). / And the grass of the farms has dried off completely as if it was burnt with fire. In addition the Māori people are distressed about their gardens.
māra
1. (noun) garden, cultivation.
Kei konei ngā māra hopa me ngā kāri hua rākau o ia āhua, o ia āhua; o te pītiti, o te āporo, o te rāhipere, o te tini noa iho o ngā rākau a te Pākehā (TP 11/1900:11). / Here we have hop farms and orchards of every kind; of peaches, apples, raspberries, of the many trees of the Pākehā.
kaingaki kāri
1. (loan) (noun) gardener.
Hua noa ia ko te kaingaki kāri, nā ko tana meatanga ki a ia, E mara, ki te mea kua mauria atu ia e koe, kōrerotia ki ahau te wāhi i whakatakotoria ai ia, ā māku ia e tango atu (PT Hoani 20:15). / She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have taken him, tell me where he was laid out, and I will take him away."
See also kaingaki māra
tinaku
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia,-a) to delay, hinder, stall, defer, postpone.
Kāti tō tinaku i te haere o ngā mahi - kei kore noa e oti i te wā kua whakaritea (PK 2008:929). / Stop delaying the progress of the work - or it won't be completed on schedule.
Synonyms: whakatārewa, hiki
2. (verb) to germinate, sprout, conceive.
Ki te mea ka taka te kākano ki te wāhi e tika ana ka tinaku, ā, ka pihi ake he tipu hou. / If a seed falls in the right place it will germinate and a new seedling will sprout up.
3. (noun) tubers for planting, seed potato, cultivation ground, garden.
taiepa
1. (verb) (-tia) to fence off.
I tōna mananui ka whakatapua taua wāhi; ka taiepatia ki te kōhatu kia kore ai e takatakahia, e whakatipungia rānei ki te kai (TTR 1990:7). / So great was Heke's mana that the site became tapu. It was fenced off with stones so that it would not be trampled on or used for growing crops.
2. (noun) wall, fence, paddock, garden, enclosure - any fenced off area.
Ka mutu taku whakatētē i aku kau i ngā ata, ka tukua e au ki roto i tō rātau taiepa (HP 1991:25). / When I finished milking my cows in the morning, I let them into their paddock.
3. (noun) bracket (printing), parentheses.
See also taiapa
mahinga
1. (noun) place where work is done, activity, garden, fishery, cultivated area.
Hāunga tērā, kua whakawhanake ngā Māori i ngā mahinga tāpoi, me ngā kapa haka me ngā hāngī puta noa i ngā pokapū tūruhi o Aotearoa (Te Ara 2011). / Nonetheless, Māori have developed successful tourist activities, kapa haka concerts and hāngī around New Zealand’s tourist centres.
2. (noun) session of work, shift, stage.
E rua ngā mahinga tītī: ko te nanao ki te pī i te rua; ko te rama pī ka puea i ō rātou rua (Te Ara 2011). / There are two stage in harvesting muttonbirds (sooty shearwaters): nanao, when chicks are extracted from their burrows; and rama, when the chicks are caught by torchlight when they come out of their burrows.
riroriro
1. (noun) grey warbler, Gerygone igata - a small, slender, insect-eating songbird of greenish-grey colouring with a darker tail tipped white. Has an undulating, floating, feather-like flight. Lives in scrub, forest, parks and gardens.
E mōhio ana te tangata mehemea ki te tangi te riroriro, kua tata te raumati, kua āhuru te whenua, kua takatū te whakaaro o te kuia rāua ko te koroheke ki te rahurahu i te whenua, hei tupunga kai mā rāua (TPH 7/7/1905:3). / A person knows that if the grey warbler sings summer is approaching, the ground is warm and the elderly woman and the elderly man are thinking about preparing the ground for growing food.
