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1. (stative) be dead, deceased, killed.

E kīia ana, nā tētahi kuia o Tūhourangi, he tangi mō ngā rangatira maha o tērā iwi i mate i te horonga o Mokoia i a Ngā Puhi (M 2004:134). / It is said that it is a lament by an elderly woman of Tūhourangi for the many chiefs of that tribe who were killed by Ngā Puhi in the fall of Mokoia.

1. (noun) mourning ceremony at another marae subsequent to the tangihanga and burial - relatives of the deceased, especially someone of importance, visit as a group the marae of communities. The kawe mate is often at the community's request. A photo is often held by one of the woman at the front of the group to represent the body of the deceased person and is placed on the verandah of the meeting house during the pōhiri.

See also kawe mate

1. (noun) mourning ceremony at another marae subsequent to the tangihanga and burial - relatives of the deceased, especially someone of importance, visit as a group the marae of communities. The kawe mate is often at the community's request. A photo is often held by one of the woman at the front of the group to represent the body of the deceased person and is placed on the verandah of the meeting house during the pōhiri.

Ko te haere o te ope nei he kawe mate, he tangi mate i ngā mate o te pakanga - he tangi ki ngā tamariki o Ngāti Porou i hinga ki te pakanga (TKO 31/7/1919:5). / The journey of the party was a kawe mate to weep for the dead of the war - to weep for the children of Ngāti Porou who fell in the war.

See also hari mate

1. (noun) Pākehā disease, foreign illness - illnesses and diseases introduced by Pākehā since colonisation as opposed to mate Māori which are psychosomatic illnesses attributed to transgressions of tapu or to mākutu.

Ka haumate te iwi i ngā mate Pākehā (Te Ara 2014). / The population was devastated by European diseases.

1. (noun) brain damage.

1. (noun) kidney disease, renal disease.

1. (stative) be lustful (for a man), have an affair (with a man).

Heoi, ka taka he wā, ka whakarērea a Tāwera e Pareārau, ka haere ki te mate tāne haere me whetū kē (Te Ara 2011). / However, in time Venus is abandoned by Jupiter, who goes off to have affairs with other stars.

1. (noun) terrible death, cancer.

1. (noun) epidemic, plague, pandemic, pestilence, deadly disease.

Āna whepu, he waipuke, he hemo kai, he mate urutā, he hoari, me ērā atu mea whakamamae, whakamate tāngata (TH 10/1860:1). / His punishments are floods, famines, pestilence, war, and other things which cause suffering and death to people.

1. (verb) to be having a period, menstruate.

I runga i ngā tikanga Māori, kia kaua te wahine e haere ki te kaukau i te awa, i te moana i a ia e mate wahine ana (PK 2008:434). / According to Māori custom, a woman should not go swimming in streams and the sea when she has her period.

1. (verb) to be thirsty.

See also matewai

1. (noun) anaemia.

Ki te iti rawa te rino o ngā toto, e kīia ana he mate rino. / If there's a deficiency of iron in the blood, that is called anaemia.

1. (stative) be sickly.

1. (noun) psychiatric disorder, mental illness.

I whakamātau anō hoki a ia ki te whakakore atu i ngā mataku me ngā kōaro o te hunga noa mō te āhua o te mate hinengaro (TTR 2000:123). / She also attempted to dispel public fears and prejudices about mental illness.

1. (verb) die of old age.

Ka kī rā ia, "Waiho taku reo kia mate rangatira", arā, kia mate hirinaki, kia mate koeo, kia mate tara-ā-whare engari kia kaua e riro mā te kōhuru rawa e mate ai! (TTTT 2006:12) / He said, "Let my language die a noble death", that is, let it die of old age, of natural causes, but don't allow it be be murdered!

1. (loan) (noun) diabetes, diabetic.

I tana pānga e te mate rehu ohotata i te tau 1993 me te poronga atu o ōna waewae i te mate huka, haere tonu ai ia ki ngā hui a Te Ohu Kai Moana mā runga tūru wīra (TTR 2000:49). / After he had a stroke in 1993 and his legs were amputated because of diabetes, he continued attending the meetings of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission in a wheelchair.

1. (noun) epilepsy.

I ēnei rangi kua hori ake nei, i te uiuinga i te take o te mate o tētahi tamaiti i mate ki Tamihana Tiriti, Pōneke, kitea iho ko te take o te mate, he mate hukihuki (TPH 1/11/1898:4). / In recent days the investigation as to the reason for the death of a child in Thompson Street, Wellington, has found that the reason for the death was epilepsy.

1. (stative) be hungry.

I kai ai i ō mātou hoariri, hei ngaki i te mauāhara a te ngākau pukuriri, ehara i te mate kai i kainga ai te tangata, engari he kai i te hoariri, kia ngata ai te ngākau kino ki a ia (JPS 1896:4). / We ate our enemies to satisfy the hatred of the angry heart, not through hunger after man's flesh, but enemies were eaten to assuage the bitter feelings we had.

See also matekai

1. (noun) smallpox.

Kua kore haere te mate koroputaputa ki ngā whenua katoa e werowerohia ana ōna tāngata (MM.TKM 1859 9:4). / Smallpox has gone from all the countries where their inhabitants were once afflicted.

1. (noun) heart attack, cardiac problem.

E rua tau i tupuheke haere ai te ora o Kīngi. He āhua maha ngā wā i tae atu ia ki te hōhipera, he mate manawa te take (TTR 2000:93). / Over the next two years Kingi Ihaka’s health deteriorated. He was hospitalised a number of times for cardiac problems.