rehu
1. (verb) (-a) to pass out of sight, disappear, render unconscious.
Synonyms: whakanumi
2. (noun) haze, mist, spray, fine dust.
Ka tahuri rātau ki te koko rimu hei takotoranga mō ngā pāua me ngā ika maroke kia mākūkū ai, koi kino i te rehu waitai (JPS 1913:111). / They proceeded to pull up seaweed as receptacles for the pāua and the dried fish so that they would be moist, and so that they should not be spoiled by the sea spray.
Synonyms: haumāringiringi, tārehu, tārehu, tuarehu, tuarehu, waikohu, waikohu, tūkōrehu, tūkōrehu, pūrehu, pūrehu, kōnenehu, kohu, kōnehunehu, kōnehunehu, kākahi, pūnehunehu, haumaringi, pūkohu, au, pūnenehu, tākohu, pūnehu
3. (noun) premonition, extra-sensory perception, foreboding.
rehu
1. (noun) long traditional flute - with a closed top and a transverse blowing hole and finger holes like a pōrutu.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 168;)
Ko ngā wheua o te hunga maitai i patua nei he mea mahi hei tīrou kai, ā, ko ngā wheua o ngā hūhā he mea mahi hei tōrino, arā, hei rehu (TAH 51:17). / The bones of the foreigners who had been killed were made into forks for picking up food, and the thigh bones were made into flutes.
2. (noun) recorder (musical instrument) - probably best distinguished from the traditional flute described above by adding the word Pākehā.
hauota rehu
1. (noun) nitrogen gas.
Ka hurihia te pākawa ota o roto i te oneone hei hauota rehu ki te kōhauhau. Ka kīia tēnei tukanga ko te 'tuku hauota', ā, mā te huakita tuku hauota tēnei tukanga e whakatutuki (RP 2009:209). / Nitrate in the soil is converted to nitrogen gas into the atmosphere. This process is called 'denitrification', and this process is completed by the denitrifying bacteria.
rehu kōkō
1. (noun) saxophone.
Nāwai rā kua tahuri ia ki te ako tonu i a ia ki te purei i te rehu matangi me te rehu kōkō (TTR 1998:171). / After a time he set about teaching himself to play clarinet and saxophone.
Synonyms: pūtohe
mate rehu ohotata
1. (noun) stroke.
I tana pānga e te mate rehu ohotata i te tau 1993 me te poronga atu o ōna waewae i te mate huka, haere tonu ai ia ki ngā hui a Te Ohu Kai Moana mā runga tūru wīra (TTR 2000:49). / After he had a stroke in 1993 and his legs were amputated because of diabetes, he continued attending the meetings of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission in a wheelchair.
