Takero
1. (personal name) Mercury - a small planet that is closest to the sun in the solar system.
Mai i runga ki raro ko Takero, ko Tāwera – (hei te atatū), ko Meremere-tū-ahiahi rānei (hei te ahiahi), ko Kōpū; kei raro iho ko Te Ao me te Marama, ko Matawhero, ko Pareārau ko Hine-i-tīweka rānei; hei ētahi ko Pareārau anō te ingoa mō te aorangi e kīia ana e te Pākehā ko Saturn (Te Ara 2013). / From top to bottom is Mercury, Venus (at dawn), Venus (in the evening), Earth with the moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, but according to some Pareārau is also the name for the planet called Saturn in English.
Synonyms: Whiro, Apārangi, Rangawhenua, Tangaroa, Matawhero, Whiringa ki Tawhiti, ao-mārama, ao tūroa, aotūroa, ao mārama, Kōpū, Kōpūnui, Rangipō, taiao, Tāwera, Pareārau, Meremere, Meremere-tū-ahiahi, ao
2. (personal noun) Pluto - tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the sun.
He tawhiti kē noa ake a Whiro i te rā, tēnā i a Kōpū (HJ 2012:143). / Pluto is very much further away from the sun than Venus is.
Synonyms: Whiringa ki Tawhiti
aorangi
1. (noun) planet - a modern word. Nine planets are in orbit around the sun and Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were known to Māori astonomers in ancient times. .
Ko te ingoa o te Māori mō te huinga o te rā, te marama, ngā aorangi, ngā whetū, ngā kāhui whetū, ko te whānau mārama (Te Ara 2013). / The Māori name for the sun, moon, planets, stars and constellations and stars is the 'whānau mārama' (family of light).
See also whetūao
Synonyms: whetūao, whetū mārama
whetū mārama
1. (noun) planet - nine planets are in orbit around the sun and Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were known to Māori astonomers in ancient times.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 165-180;)
Ko Takero, ko Kōpū, ko te Ao, ko Matawhero, ko Rangawhenua, ko Pareārau ngā whetū mārama i mōhiotia ai e ngā tohunga kōkōrangi Māori o neherā (PK 2008:1174). / Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are the planets that were known by Māori astronomers in ancient times.
whetūao
1. (noun) planet - nine planets are in orbit around the sun and Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were known to Māori astonomers in ancient times.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 165-180;)
Ko Kōpū te whetūao noho tuarua mai i te rā, ko Papatūānuku te tuatoru (PK 2008:1174). / Venus is the second planet from the sun and Earth is the third.
See also whetū mārama
Synonyms: aorangi, whetū mārama
