Tāmaki

1. (noun) omen, portent.

Mehemea ka kino te tākiri, he tāmaki tēnā (W 1971:376). / If the convulsive twitching is bad, that's an omen.

Kiwi Tāmaki

1. (personal name) powerful leader of Te Wai-o-Hua of Tāmaki-makau-rau who were eventually defeated by Ngāti Whātua and Kiwi was killed.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 108-109;)

turi tāmaki

1. (noun) knee-jerk.

Tāmaki Paenga Hira

1. (location) Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Toi o Tāmaki

1. Auckland Art Gallery.

Tāmaki-makau-rau

1. (location) Auckland.

Therefore, it is correct that we of Tamaki-makau-rau, who invited the first Governor to Waitemata, should greet his successor and again utter that song of our ancestor Titai. Link here Nā reira e tika ana kia tūtaki tātou o Tāmaki-makau-rau, i pōwhiri ai i te Kāwana tuatahi ki te Waitematā, ki tana piki tūranga, ka waiata anō ai i tērā waiata a tō tātou tupuna, a Titai. /

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