uru
1. (verb) (-a,-hina) to enter, go in.
Ko ngā tamariki e uru ana ki tō runga kura o Hukarere e ākona ana ki te taka kai, ki te nēhi tūroro, ki te tuhituhi ringa poto (TKO 1/12/1917:12). / The children entering the upper school of Hukarere are being taught to prepare food, to nurse the sick and to write shorthand.
2. (verb) (-a,-hina) to enlist, enrol, join, be included.
Ka uru a ia ki roto i te tīma toa o tōna rohe i te wā tekau noa iho ōna tau (TWK 38:28). / She joined the champion team of her region when she was just ten years old.
Synonyms: kuhukuhu, tāpiri, whakauru, pāhekoheko, hiki, tūhoto, whakamoemoe, whakatapoko, haumi, honohono, pūtahi, tūhono, tūhonohono, hono, whakakapiti, porotūtaki, porotūtataki, uhono
3. (noun) west.
Uenuku: he atua Māori, tōna kāinga kei ngā kapua pākurakura o te rangi i te marangai, i te uru; he mea anō kei roto kei te āniwaniwa (TKM.MM 3-4/1855:32). / Uenuku: a Māori ancestor of significance, whose residence is in the red clouds of the eastern and western sky; and is also in the rainbow.
See also tonga-mā-uru
2. (noun) head.
Ka oti te takutaku ka tukua te teka kia rere, kātahi ka rere, whakaaweawe ki runga, aua rawa atu ki runga, kātahi anō ka ahu te uru o te teka ki te whenua, tau noa atu e toru tekau takoto te mataratanga i ā ētahi katoa (JPS 1925:313). / When he had completed the ritual chant he launched the dart and it flew a great distance upwards then the head of the dart turned toward the earth and it fell thirty takoto beyond all the others.
3. (noun) grove (of trees), stand (of bush).
E noho ana ia i Whakawhiti, e tata atu ana ki te uru rākau o Te Pakiaka (TTR 1990:235). / He was living at Whakawhiti, close to Te Pakiaka, a stand of bush.
4. (noun) chief, leader.
Ko wai te uru o tēnei ope? (W 1971:469). / Who is the leader of this party?
Synonyms: manu taupua, kaitaki, kaitātaki, kaiārahi, kākākura, pouwhenua, kaiwhakataki, wheao, tumuaki, tumu whakarae, kaiarataki, kaikākāriki, ngārahu, tētēkura, kaihautū, kaitakitaki, kaingārahu, manukura, kaiwhakanekeneke, tātāriki, amokapua, amokura, ariki, ihorei, kahika, tātarariki, poutoko, whakataka, amorangi, hautū
uru huarākau
1. (noun) orchard.
He mea āwhina a ia e tana mokopuna ki te kato i ana hua rākau, tiaki mai hoki i tana uru huarākau me ana kāri whakatipu otaota, whakatipu putiputi (TTR 2000:222). / She was helped by her granddaughter to pick her fruit, to tend her orchard, and her vegetable and flower gardens.
Synonyms: oro
2. (noun) curly locks.
Kōwatawata ana ngā uru māwhatu i te hana o te ahi (TP 4/1909:11). / The curly locks shone in the glow of the fire.
whiringa uru
1. (noun) qualifying round.
Synonyms: whiringa
Uru-tahi
1. (personal noun) fifth month of the Māori year, approximately equivalent to October and traditionally used by Ngāti Kahungunu.
See also Whiringa-ā-nuku
Uru-tautahi
1. (personal noun) sixth month of the Māori year, approximately equivalent to November and traditionally used by Ngāti Kahungunu.
See also Whiringa-ā-rangi
Uru-whenua
1. (personal noun) twelth lunar month of the Māori year, approximately equivalent to May and traditionally used by Ngāti Kahungunu.
See also Haratua, Hakiharatua
uru-mā-raki
1. (noun) north-west.
Ka whakatika tana iwi ki te whakahoki i tana tinana ki Taupō; nō te taenga ki Kaiwhā, i te uru-mā-raki o te moana o Taupō, ka whakatakotoria atu te tūpāpaku ki roto i tētahi ana (TTR 1990:183). / His people set out to return his body to Taupō. When they reached Kaiwhā, on the north-west side of Lake Taupō they lay the body in a cave.
See also -mā-
Synonyms: tūpātiu, hauātiu, parera, tapatapa atiu, tapatapātiu, māuru, kōtiu, raki-mā-uru, hauāuru-mā-raki, tapatapa-aitu, tapātiu, kapekape
