2. (noun) hair.
He tangata huru mangu, mau hurungutu mātotoru (TTR 1996:89). / He was a person with dark hair and a thick mostache.
3. (noun) feather.
I hūtia ake e te tangata mangumangu he huru manu i taku pare (TTR 1990:101). / A black man plucked a feather from my hair.
4. (noun) white dogskin cloak - made of whole skins sown together.
Ka rūpeke katoa a Waikato ki Hinga-kākā. Tae rawa mai aua iwi kua pākarukaru katoa ō rātou kākahu Māori; ngā kākahu papai, ngā kaitaka, ngā neko, ngā korowai, ngā tūtata, ngā tuputupu, ngā tōpuni, ngā huru, ngā kākahu onamata o ngā rangatira (White 5 1888:76). / Waikato all gathered at Hinga-kākā. When those tribes arrived their Māori garments were all falling apart; the good garments were kaitaka (flax fibre cloaks with tāniko ornamental borders), neko (flax fibre cloaks with tāniko ornamental borders along the bottom), korowai (cloaks ornamented with black twisted thrums), tūtata cloaks, tuputupu cloaks, tōpuni (dogskin cloaks of dark hair with white borders), huru (white dogskin cloaks), the traditional garments of chiefs.
See also huru kurī
huru
1. (verb) to glow, rise (of the sun).
Māku tēnei, mā te rā e tō ana. He aha kei a koe? Kei te rā e huru ake ana (NP 2001:280). / This is for me, for the sun that is setting. What is for you? It is the sun that is rising. (A whakataukī about an elderly person whose life is fading, but a young person has the future.)
2. (modifier) rising, glowing.
Ka mea atu a Turi, "Me anga tāua ki te rā huru." (NM 1928:95). / Turi said, "We must head towards the rising sun."
Synonyms: pukenga, panuku, hurunga, whakapupuketanga, huamo
3. (noun) glow.
Kei te noho a Apakura i runga i tōna whare, ka titiro atu. Ka kitea e ia te huru o te ahi. Ka mau ia te huruhuru ki te rangi (Tr 1874:49). / Apakura was sitting on the top of her house, watching. She saw the glow of the fire.
huru
1. (verb) to dislike, refuse, have an aversion to.
Kei noho ngātahi tāua; manako mai koe, huru atu au (W 1971:72). / We should not sit together; you like me, I dislike you.
Synonyms: kapurangi, kape, tohe, para, whakahoe, whakakāhore, whakapeka, whakanau, whakatoitoi, hawa, ota, whakapekapeka, tohetohe
huru kurī
1. (noun) dogskin cloak - made of whole skins sown together.
Ka horoi nei a Kapu i a ia, ā, ka oti, ka whakapaipai i a ia, heru rawa, tikitiki rawa, ūhia iho te huru kurī (White 5 1888:54). / Kapu washed himself and, when he had finished, he made himself handsome with a comb and topknot and covered himself with a dogskin cloak.
2. (noun) dogskin.
Ko ngā huruhuru tātai o te maro, he huru kurī, he toroa rānei; he mā (M 2006:48). / The decorative trimmings of a maro are of dogskin or albatross feathers; and white.
3. (noun) animal skin.
Ko ētahi o ngā hapū o Piritene i noho hauwarea noa iho; ko ō rātou pūweru he huru kurī, kāore hoki i tahuri ki te ngaki whenua (KO 1/3/1882:3). / Some of the tribes of Britain lived quite simply; their clothes were of animal skins, and they didn't cultivate the land.
