whakahī
1. (verb) to be proud.
I te wā i rongo nei ia i te rōpū whakatangitangi o te motu e whakatangi mai ana i tana waiata, i a ‘Blue smoke’, me tana rongo anō i taua waiata e waiatatia mai ana i te reo Māori i runga i te reo irirangi, i tino whakahī rawa atu nei ia (TTR 2000:98). / The time when he heard the National Orchestra playing his song ‘Blue smoke’, and when he heard that song being sung in Māori on the radio, he was extremely proud.
Synonyms: kia ara te ua, karatete, whakahīhī, poho kererū
2. (modifier) proud, prominent, prestigious, impressive, important.
Nā te ariki o Tūwharetoa, nā Horonuku Te Heuheu, i tuku ngā maunga whakahī a Tongariro, a Ngāuruhoe me Ruapehu ki te kāwanatanga (Te Ara 2015). / The paramount chief of Tūwharetoa, Horonuku Te Heuheu, gifted the prestigious mountains Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu to the government.
Synonyms: whakaea, whakarae, kōhure, hōhō, ahurei, tutū, matararahi, koutu, tāpua, koure
3. (noun) pride.
Hei te tuarua ēnei o ngā whakatupuranga tāngata hononga pai, ka mau kē te whakahī ki tō rātau pono ki te Karauna, tuarā hoki i te Hāhi Mihingare (TTR 2000:59). / They were the second generation of well-connected men, who took pride in their loyalty to the Crown and their support of the Anglican church.
poho kererū
1. (verb) to be proud, full of pride, puffed up with pride - a figurative expression.
Ka tū ana te tamaiti ki te haka, ka poho kererū ana mātua. / When the child stood up to perform the haka, his parents were full of pride.
Synonyms: karatete, whakahī, whakahīhī, kia ara te ua
whakahīhī
1. (verb) (-tia) to sneer, speak contemptuously, deride, mock, ridicule.
Synonyms: taunu, whakatoi, tītoi, pāengaenga, tāwai, whakareko, whakarōriki, aniani, whakaiti, whakamanumanu, whakahahani, whakaparahako
2. (verb) to be proud.
Whakahīhī ana tā mātau whakatangi haere i ā mātau pūtōrino (HP 1991:33). / We proudly played our flutes as we marched along.
Synonyms: karatete, whakahī, poho kererū, kia ara te ua
3. (verb) to be vain, conceited, arrogant, smug.
Ko āna tohutohu ko te ngākau whakaiti, ā, kia kaua e whakahīhī, e whakamanamana (EM 2002:9). / Her advice was to be humble and not to be conceited or boastful.
4. (modifier) vain, conceited, arrogant, smug.
Kāti te whakanui i te kōrero whakahīhī (TWMNT 23/4/1873:46). / Stop praising arrogant talk.
5. (noun) pride, vanity, conceit, arrogance.
Koia nā te mate o ētahi meiha Pākehā ki tōku titiro. He whakahīhī, kāore e hiahia ki te whakapāpaku i a rātau, ahakoa kei te mōhio tonu iho kei te hē rātau (HP 1991:204). / In my opinion, that was the trouble with some Pākehā majors. It was their arrogance and they would not want to humble themselves, even if they knew they were wrong.
2. (modifier) haughty, conceited, arrogant, self-important, smug, stuck-up, snobbish.
Ko rāua mārire hoki ngā tāngata pākiwaha i kōrero whakakake noa, rūpahu noa (TWMNT 21/5/1879:422). / And they are the boastful people who spoke with assumed superiority and deceit.
Synonyms: whakaī
3. (noun) pride, self-importance, superiority.
Kua rongo tātou ki te whakakake o Moapa; nui atu tōna whakakake; ki tōna whakapehapeha, ki tōna whakakake, ki tōna pukuriri (PT Ihaia 16:6). / We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath.
