hewa
1. (verb) to be bald, balding - strictly of the top of the head.
Kua kaumātuatia ahau kua hewa taku upoko, hei tohu tēnei mō te roa o te wā i tohe ai ahau i tētahi tikanga e ora ai te iwi Māori (TPH 30/5/1901:3). / I am elderly and my head is balding, this is a symbol of how long I have been arguing for a process to save the Māori people.
3. (noun) baldness, bald head, bald patch.
Kua toru marama a Kōtuku e panipani ana i tōna hewa ki te rongoā whakatupu makawe, he aha te aha! E pīataata tonu ana a runga (HJ 2012:32). / Kōtuku has been wiping his bald head with hair growth treatment, with no result! It's still shiny on top.
hewa
1. (stative) be deluded, under a false impression, under a misapprehension.
I hira ake tō rātou mana i tō ngā rangitira o ngā hapū, ā, i te mātūtūtanga o te mate, i hewa ngā tūroro nā ngā karakia kikokiko i ora ai (KO 15/6/1882:6). / Their mana is greater than that of the chiefs of the kinship groups and when convalescing the patients are deluded into thinking that the malevolent ritual chants will heal them.
Synonyms: pōkaku, pāhewahewa, pōhēhētanga
2. (noun) someone without eyebrows.
Ko te pene tuhi tukemata te tino taonga a te mata hewa (HJ 2017:41). / The eyebrow pencil is the prized possession of someone without eyebrows.
paki o Hewa
1. fine weather.
Ko te paki o Hewa ngā rangi o tana tangihanga, erangi, nō te amohanga atu i te kāwhena ki runga o Taupiri, ka whakaheke te ua tātā (TTR 1996:229). / For the days of the tangihanga the weather was fine, but as the coffin was borne onto Taupiri heavy rain fell.
See also paki o Rangi, paki
