taihemahema
1. (noun) genitals (of either gender), reproductive organ, sexual organs.
Ko ngā taihemahema ngā wāhanga ai o te tinana o te tāne me te wahine, o te tipu rānei, e whakatōkia ai he uri. / The reproductive organs are the parts of the body of a male and female, or of a plant, whereby offspring are produced.
Synonyms: taiaroaro
2. (noun) bar (music).
2. (noun) female genitals.
mokakati
1. (personal noun) vagina, female genitals - a personified form for some part of the vagina.
Ka uru atu a Hā ki roto i ngā kūhā kāore tonu i takitaro e kauhikahika ana rāua kua tae noa mai ngā mahi a Mokakati rāua ko Maunene (JPS 1928:372). / Hā entered between the thighs and it wasn't long after they were rubbing back and forth that Mokakati and Maunene began to work.
See also tara
maunene
1. (personal noun) vagina, female genitals - a personified form of some part of the vagina.
Ka uru atu a Hā ki roto i ngā kūhā kāore tonu i takitaro e kauhikahika ana rāua kua tae noa mai ngā mahi a Mokakati rāua ko Maunene (JPS 1928:372). / Hā entered between the thighs and it wasn't long after they were rubbing back and forth that Mokakati and Maunene began to work.
See also tara
kiritore
1. (noun) vagina, female genitals, vulva.
See also tara
tewhatewha
1. (noun) long wooden or bone weapon with a flat section at one end like an axe.
Ko ā rātou rākau patu tangata, he koikoi, he huata, he taiaha, he tewhatewha, he hoeroa; he mea tārai ki te toki pounamu, ki te toki kōhatu (JPS 1899:179). / Their man-killing weapons were spears, lances, taiaha, tewhatewha and long whale-bone weapons fashioned with greenstone and stone adzes.
2. (noun) vagina, female genitals, genitalia, vulva.
tōkini
1. (noun) vagina, female genitals.
See also tara
namu
1. (noun) sandfly of various species, black flies, Austrosimulium spp. - tiny, blackish, hump-backed, biting insects. The females need to suck blood for their eggs to mature.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 58-59;)
Ka kī te waeroa ki tōna taina, ki te namu, 'Me waiho kia ahiahi ka haere ai tāua hei wheowheo taringa, hei hohō taringa.' (W 1971:54) / The mosquito said to its junior relation, the sandfly, 'We should wait until it's evening and then go to hum and buzz the ears.'
2. (noun) vagina, female genitals, vulva.
Ko te whakaputanga o te tamaiti i te namu o te whaea ki te aotūroa (W 1971:217). / The progressive movement of the child through the vagina of the mother into the enduring world.
kauraho
1. (noun) vagina, female genitals.
See also teke
taiaroaro
1. (noun) genitals (of either gender), reproductive organ.
He rite tonu hoki ngā taiaroaro o te wēra i ō te tangata me ngā kararehe (Wh3 2003:5). / The reproductive organs of the whale are just like those of humans and mammals.
Synonyms: taihemahema
tara
1. (noun) peak, point, thorn, tooth (of a comb), papillae (of the skin), sprocket, cog.
Ka orohia te pounamu hei matau, hei pākuru, hei tara tao (Te Ara 2013). / The greenstone was ground and made into fish hooks, hammer stones and points for spears.
Synonyms: hīnawanawa, keokeo, matatihi, keo, tautara, tihi, keokeonga, maunga, keho, tāpuhipuhi, karamata, koi, koinga, toi, toitoi, mata, matū, matamata, tongi, hiku, kūmore, raenga, akitu, paina, ngahu, tāmore
2. (noun) cloak pin, spike.
Kātahi ka wetekina te hei, te tara, te makao, ka horahia atu, ka hoatu ki te mano e noho mai rā (NM 1928:152). / Then the neck ornament, the cloak pin and the shark's tooth were untied, laid out and presented to the thousands sitting there.
3. (noun) rays (of the sun).
He kupu anō te hihi mō ngā tara o Tama-nui-te-rā (Te Ara 2013). / Hihi is another word for the rays of the sun.
4. (noun) vagina, female genitals, genitalia, vulva.
Ko te tara te puaretanga o te kōpū, te ara e kuhu ai te ure i te aitanga a te tāne me te wahine. Koia hoki te ara e puta ai te pēpi i te wā whakawhānau (RP 2009:383). / The vagina is the opening of the womb, the path that the penis enters when a man and woman copulate. It is also the passage whereby the baby emerges at childbirth.
