hahae
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to slit, lacerate, tear, cut, slash.
Haere mai tonu te taraka nei, tukia tonuhia te taha katau o te pahi, hahaetia ana taua taha katoa (HP 1991:8). / This truck continued coming, crashing right into the right side of the bus, tearing away all that side.
Synonyms: hōripiripi, haehae, whakangaeke, whakahaehae, hae, harakuku, hōripi, rarapi
2. (verb) (-a,-tia) to appear, shine (of stars and dawn). Usually haea in the passive form.
I te hahaetanga mai o te ata, ka kite ia i tētahi moutere (TJ 5/1/1899:10). / When the morning dawned he saw an island.
3. (noun) slit, cut, incision, notch.
Ko te pūwerewere. He tāruarua te noho whakahāngai o ētahi hahae e toru, e whā rānei, ki roto i tētahi awaawa āhua whānui nei (RTA 2014:210). / The pūwerewere carving design. A repetition of three or four cuts lying at right angles in a quite wide groove.
Synonyms: tōkari, whakakāniwha, whakataratara, kāniwha, pakini
4. (noun) slash, macron.
E whakaae ana mātou ki te kupu a Te Mete, ko te hahae i runga i te 'e' te mea tika, pēnei me tō te Paipera tikanga, kāhore e whakaruatia ana ngā reta (TP 6/1905:5). / We agree with what Mr Smith says that the macron above the 'e' is the correct thing, like the practice of the Bible in that the letters are not doubled.
Synonyms: tohutō
2. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to warn off (by shouting).
Ka hāhāngia mai e te katoa, "Kaua koe e haere atu ki reira, ka tapu koe i te nohoanga o Tangotango." (NM 1928:43) / He was warned off by everybody, "Don't go there or you will become tapu from the place where Tangotango sits."
3. (stative) be savoury, luscious, tasty, appetizing, delicious, scrumptious.
Synonyms: wainene, hūnene, mōkarakara, kakato
4. (stative) be leaning, inclined, tilted, slanting, sloping.
Kia hāhā ngā tara o te whare (W 1971:29). / The walls of the house should be slanting.
5. (modifier) desolate, deserted, bleak, isolated.
He harapaki hāhā te wāhi i rohea mō taua urupā nei (TTR 1990:316). / The place marked off for that cemetery was a bleak hillside.
haha
1. (verb) (-ina,-ngia,-tia) to seek, look for, search.
Ka haha te tangata rā i ngā pareparenga o te waiariki rā, rapu rawa atu, e takoto whakamaoko ana i raro i ngā tauwharenga kōwhatu (Biggs 1997:119). / That man searched along the sides of the hot pool where she was lying crouched under the overhanging ledges.
Synonyms: paraketu, hīnana, hure, rapunga, puretumu, rangahau, pōrangi, hāhau, kimi, takitaki, ārohi, whai, whakarapu, rapa, rapurapu, raparapa, kimikimi, rapu
2. (verb) (-ina,-ngia,-tia) to procure, obtain, hunt for.
Kātahi a Marutūāhu rāua ko tana rōpā ka haere mai, haere mai anō rāua me te here wero manu anō; i haria mai ai taua here e rāua hei haha kai mā rāua (NM 1928:114). / Then Marutūāhu and his servant came, and they came with a spear for spearing birds, which they brought to procure food for themselves.
3. (noun) enquiry, search.
Ko te haha rā a te tangata ki a Pāoa, "Ko wai rā tēnei tangata?" (NM 1928:161). / The man's enquiry of Pāoa was, "Who is this person?"
