whakararo

1. (modifier) downwards, northwards, north, northern, lower.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 112;)

Ka eke a Pāoa me tana iwi ki ō rātou waka ko te hoenga whakararo (NIT 1995:165). / Pāoa and his people boarded their canoes and paddled north.

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tāuhu whakararo

1. (noun) (gymnastics) lower bar.

pāeke whakararo

1. (noun) (softball) bottom of innings.

pito whakararo

1. (noun) northern end.

He tangata tino whakarae a ia nō roto o Ngāti Kahungunu ki te takiwā ki Te Wairoa, i te pito whakararo o Te Matau-a-Māui, i ngā tau potapotae o te tīmatanga o te rau tau rua ngahuru (TTR 1996:193). / He was a very prominent figure among Ngāti Kahungunu in the Wairoa district, at the northern end of Hawke's Bay, around the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Synonyms: pito raki

2. (noun) bottom end.

He maimoa tērā manu i te pito whakararo o te taki (Te Ara 2015). / The bird at the bottom of the pole is a decoy (Te Ara 2015).

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Tōpito Whakararo

1. (location) North Pole.

Synonyms: Pito Raki, Te, Nōta Pōra, Pito Whakararo o te Ao, Te

āinga whakararo

1. (noun) forcing downwards, subduction - a geological process where one tectonic plate moves under another.

Ka tukituki ngā papaneke, i ētahi wā ka āia te papaneke moana ki raro tonu i te papaneke paparahi, ā, he nui ngā rū whenua me ngā hūnga puia ka hua ake. Ka kīia tēnei ko te āinga whakararo (RP 2009:305). / When the tectonic plates ram against each other other, sometimes the oceanic plate is forced under the continental plate and many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions result. This is called subduction.

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