kaimahi
1. (noun) worker, employee, clerk, staff.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 102;)
Kīhai i roa ka tatū ia ki raro, ka tū ki waenganui o ana kaimahi kua ngau nei ō rātou ngākau i te mataku kei pau katoa rātou te kai e te ahi (TWMNT 2/7/1873:77). / Before long he reached the bottom and stood amongst his employees who were overcome by fear that they might all be consumed by the fire.
ohu
1. (verb) (-a) to work as a volunteer group, do as a working party, do cooperatively.
Mā tātau katoa e ngaki te purapura i ruia nei e tō tātau kaumātua, kore hoki e oti i te tangata kotahi te mahi, engari me ohu te mahi ka oti ai - koia nei tā onamata tū whakaaro, tāne, te wahine, te iti, te rahi, me pā katoa ki te mahi (TPH 27/3/1905:2). / We will all cultivate the seeds sown by our elder and it will not be done by one person, but the work should be done as a working party so that it is completed - that was the attitude in former times, men, women, the lowly and the important people, they should all participate in the task.
Ka rite ki te mahi a te Māori o mua; ka ohua te tua o te rākau hei waka (TWMNT 6/3/1872:52). / It is like the way Māori worked in former times when a tree was felled for a canoe by a working party.
2. (modifier) working bee, communal working group.
Ka whakaaro tētahi kaumātua ki te whakataka ohu hei tope i tōna waerenga, ka huihuitia e ia tōna iwi, ka whakahautia kia topea te waerenga rā (TTT 1/12/1931:82). / When an elder decided to muster a working bee to clear his garden site, he gathered together his people, and directed them to clear that garden plot.
I whakawhirinaki tonu ia ki tana hunga ohu i te mahi, tae atu hoki ki āna tamariki (TTR 1998:223). / He relied on volunteer helpers, including his children.
3. (noun) working bee, working party, volunteer workers, commune, cooperative, collective emterprise.
E rua ngā ohu nāna i mahi i te tuatahi kīhai i oti. Kātahi ka mahia e Te Pōkiha rātou ko ōna hoa tokotoru. Tekau mā iwa ngā rā i mahia ai ka oti (TWMNT 11/1/1876:1). / Two working parties were originally employed to do the work, but they didn't finish it. Then it was done by Te Pōkiha and his three assistants, completing it in nineteen days.
kaihāpai o muri
1. (noun) back stage worker.
Arā ētahi kaimahi o te tuaroa hei whakatutuki i ngā mahi o reira, pērā i te kaikawe utauta, te pūkenga tūrama, me te kaiwhakapaipai. Ka kīia ēnei tāngata ko ngā kaihāpai o muri (RMR 2017). / There are some workers of the backstage who do the tasks there, such as the carriers of props, the lighting experts and the decorators. These people are called the back stage workers.
2. (noun) social worker.
Whakaae atu ana a Black ki te tūranga hai kaiwhakataka mō ngā tauwhiro hapori o te kamupene (TTR 2000:24). / Black accepted the position of director of community services for the company.
kaimahi kairau
1. (noun) sex worker.
He wahine irawhiti, he kaiwhakangahau para huarahi hou a Carmen Rupe, he tuakiri tōna i aro nuitia, he kaimahi kairau, he tipua ia nō te hunga LGBTIQ+ i whakanuia. (Townsend, 2018) / Carmen Rupe was a trailblazing transgender woman and entertainer, a larger-than-life personality, sex worker, and celebrated LGBTIQ+ icon.
tangata ahuwhenua
1. (noun) farmer, agriculturist, agricultural worker, industrious person.
Ko Kahu-hunuhunu he tangata ahuwhenua mōhio ki te haere i ngā mahi o uta me te tai (Te Ara 2013). / Kahu-hunuhunu is an industrious man and one who knows how to manage works both on land and at sea (Te Ara 2013).
ringa wera
1. (modifier) kitchen work.
Kai te mahara tonu te tangata ki tōna ngākau manawareka, ki tōna kaha ki ngā mahi ringa wera i ngā marae, me tana pai ki te manaaki tangata (TTR 2000:247). / The man is remembered for his sense of humour, his ability in the kitchen work of marae, and his hospitality.
2. (noun) worker in the kitchen and dining room - a figurative term for people who work in the kitchen and their hot hands from the fires and ovens.
Nui atu ngā mea whakamīharo i kitea i te marae mahinga kai, arā i te ringa wera (ngā kuki), ngā tununga keke, ngā mahinga parāoa me ngā tununga mīti (TTT 1/9/1927:651). / There are lots of amazing things seen on the marae preparing food, namely the kitchen workers (the cooks), cooking cakes, making bread and cooking meat.
kanohi wera
1. (noun) worker in the kitchen and dining room - a figurative term for people who work in the kitchen on the marae and their hot faces from the fires and ovens.
Me uaua ka haere ngā kanohi wera ki mua, ka noho tonu ki te hereumu taka kai ai mā ngā manuhiri. / The kitchen workers are rarely seen out the front, they remain in the kitchen preparing food for the visitors.
See also ringa wera
whakahauhau
1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to order, direct, hasten, encourage.
Kei te whakahauhau ngā kaumātua o ia kāinga, o ia kāinga whai kōea kia kaha (TP 2/1911:1). / The elders of each village that have choirs are urging them on.
Synonyms: ōta, tono, ngare, ngarengare, whakahau, whakaraupapa, raupapa
2. (noun) encouragement, urging.
Nā runga i te whakahauhau a Hāmiora, ka tīmata te mahi a Ākenehi hei nēhi kaiāwhina (TTR 1996:38). / With the encouragement of Hāmiora, Ākenehi became an assistant nurse.
3. (noun) song for encouraging workers.
Kātahi ka kōia te māra, ko tōna whakahauhau tēnei (NM 1928:96). / Then the garden was dug and this was the song for inspiring the workers.
kai-
1. Prefix added to verbs which express some kind of action to form nouns denoting a human agent (i.e. the person doing the action), e.g. kaikōrero (speaker), kaitiaki (guardian, trustee), kaimahi (worker), kaihoko (seller), kaituhi (writer) and kaitito haka (haka composer). This prefix cannot be used with verbs the meaning of which indicates a state, not an activity, e.g. moe and tū. In other words, only transitive verbs can take the prefix kai-. There are exceptions to this rule, notably kainoho (inhabitant). Some of the words created by this use of kai- are listed in this dictionary, but the list is not exhaustive.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 48-49;)
See also kaihoe, porokaihākere
