kūao
1. (stative) be young (of animals).
Tērā tētahi manu kei te awa nui o Amerika ki te tonga, kei te Amahona, e kīia ana e whā waewae o taua manu i te mea e kūao ana. (KO 10/9/1890:3). / There is a bird in the large river of South America, the Amazon, which is said to have four legs when it's young.
2. (noun) young (of animals).
I tua atu i ēnei tohu ka tae mai he hōiho uwha me te kūao, te utu mō ētahi whenua i hokona (TTR 1990:58). / As well as these awards was a mare and foal, as payment for some land that was sold.
2. (modifier) young.
Kāore i tukua e ia te mana whakahaere ki ōna whanaunga taitamariki, kei kaipukutia, kei hokona te whenua kia whiwhi moni ai (TTR 1994:85). / He did not give control to his younger kin, lest they became greedy for a quick return and sold the land.
3. (noun) youth, teenagers, young person (of either sex), adolescent.
Ko tōna āhua, koia tēnei: He kiritea, he taitamariki (e 30 pea ōna tau), he pāhau anō ōna, he ira kei te pāpāringa mauī, e rua hoki ngā ira kei te kakī, kei te taha ki katau (TWMNT 7/3/1876:59). / His appearance is as follows: He is fair skinned, youthful (approximately 30 years old), he has a beard, a freckle on the left cheek and two freckles on the neck on the right side.
2. (noun) younger generation, youth.
Heoti, mēnā ki te whakaaro o te rangatahi i ētehi wā he wahine pākaha a Te Puea, i mōhio anō hoki rātou ki te hōhonu o tōna pūaroha ki a rātou katoa (TTR 1996:52). / However, if the young people in these times thought that Te Puea was a strict woman, they also knew the depth of her concern for them all.
3. (noun) fishing net about 20 m long, smaller than a kaharoa.
Ka pū te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi (W 1971:300). / When the worn-out net lies in a heap the new net goes fishing.
kōhungahunga
1. (stative) be young (of people, birds and animals).
He epeepe tonu nei rāua, ā, i te wā e kōhungahunga tonu ana i puta ai te whakahau a wō rāua tūpuna tāne rā, kia taumautia rāua i runga anō i te tikanga o te tomo (TTR 2000:68-69). / They were distant cousins and when they were still quite young their grandfathers decreed that they be betrothed under the customary practice of betrothal.
2. (noun) infant, young, fledgling.
Kia kaha te tūpato me te tiaki i ngā kōhungahunga kia tupu kaha ai, kia tupu ora ai (TKO 30/4/1920:4). / Be energetic in cautioning and looking after the young people so that they grow up strong and healthy.
taitamāhinetanga
1. (noun) being a young woman, youth (of a young woman).
I pau te kaha o ngā rata o te Kuīni (ētahi o ngā tino rata o Ingarangi ), nōwhea e taea te mate kaumātua; e kore e taea te whakahoki ki tōna taitamāhinetanga (HKW 1/2/1901:9). / The Queen's doctors (some of the best doctors in England) have tried their utmost, but there is no way of combating the problem of old age; they will never be able to return her to being a young woman.
miware
1. (noun) young dark rock shell, young snail whelk, Haustrum haustorium - a large species of predatory sea snail. The shell has a low point, weak spiral groves and large aperature. Dark brown to purple in colour, white inside. Common among rocks between tides.
See also kāeo
2. (noun) spot.
I te whā o ngā rā ka puta mai ngā kōtingotingo whero i te kanohi, muri iho ki ngā wāhi o te tinana ki raro iho (TWMNT 9/2/1875:35). / On the fourth day the red spots appear on the face, and afterwards on the parts of the body below that.
3. (noun) spots on kōwhaiwhai patterns - used to represent ancestors and as reminders to the whānau of those particular ancestors.
Mēnā koe e titiro ana ki ngā heke me ngā kōwhaiwhai, he kōtingotingo kei konā, he mea tohu e ōna whānau (Milroy 2015). / If you are looking at the rafters with the kōwhaiwhai patterns, and there are spots there, they are symbols put there by its families.
pohio
1. (noun) young southern black-backed gull, Larus dominicanus - young bird in its first winter has a black bill, dark brown feet and is mottled below and barred above grey and brown.
See also kōtingotingo
Synonyms: toie, kaiē, rāpunga, karoro, kōtingotingo
māhuri
1. (noun) young tree, sapling.
Ā, kia rite ā mātou tama i tō ratou taitamarikitanga ki ngā māhuri e tupu ake ana (PT Ngā Waiata 144:12). / That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth.
See also māhuri tōtara
Synonyms: kōhuri, kōhurihuri
2. (noun) lesser joyweed, Alternanthera denticulata - a perennial herb.
mātātahi
1. (noun) young people, younger generation.
Kei te mātāpuputu o nāianei ēnei momo kupu e pupuru ana, engari nā te mea kua matemate haere ō rātou hoa kōrero, kua kore e whakamahia e rātou aua kupu, me te aha anō, kua kore e rangona e te mātātahi (HM 1/1994:3). / The present older generation know these types of words, but because their conversation friends have died they no longer use those words and as a consequence the younger generation haven't heard them.
pihinga
1. (noun) shoot, young plant, seedling.
Arā anō he aruhe i kainga e te Māori, tae atu ki ngā pihinga o te kōwaowao, te rereti, te mouku, te huruhuru whenua, te koru o te kiokio me te pikopiko (Te Ara 2012). / Māori ate other ground ferns, including the young shoots of hound’s tongue fern, rereti, hen and chickens fern, the shining spleenwort, the young curled shoots of kiokio and common shield fern.
Synonyms: tupu, tipu, wana, kotete, kōkihi, wene, pupuhi, pihi, pipihi, puhi, puhipuhi, kāwai, tītere
pikopiko
1. (adjective) be meandering, wandering, rambling, winding.
Haere ai anō te kaipuke i te taha ki uta o taua toka, engari he pikopiko te ara (TWMNT 23/3/1875:67). / Ships travel on the inland side of the reef, but the route meanders about.
See also kōpikopiko
Synonyms: kōpikopiko, ikimoke, karore, kāwekaweka, parure, kaipāwe, autaki
2. (modifier) winding, crooked, meandering.
E kī ana a Riwingitone, "He mea āhuareka te titiro whakamuri ki te roa o tō mātou tira e whakawiri haere ana i te huanui pikopiko." (TWMNT 10/5/1874:110). / Livingstone says, "It was pleasant to look back at the length of our travelling party as it twisted along the winding path."
3. (noun) young curved fern shoots.
I reira anō hoki te poaka puihi, te tia, te pikopiko me te kōmata (TTR 2000:206). / There there were also wild pig, deer, fern fronds and the tender shoots of the cabbage tree.
4. (noun) common shield fern, Polystichum neozelandicum subsp. zerophyllum - tufted native ground fern with few fronds, dark, shiny and leathery, on black, wiry stalks with short, hair-like scales.
Synonyms: tutoke
2. (noun) chick, young of birds.
Ka paopao tuatahi te hua o te rāwaho, ka tahuri te pīpī ki te pana i ngā hua kē, kia riro ko ia anake te pī ka whāngaihia ki te kai (Te Ara 2012). / The intruder’s egg hatched first, and the chick pushed out the other eggs so it was the only chick to be fed.
2. (noun) perforated spiral carving.
Ko wai te tangata kei te kainga-a-ngaru o te waka, ko wai kei te tainga-riu, ko wai kei te pītau o te kei? (TTT 1/1/1924:8). / Who is the person at the bow of the canoe, who is at the bailing place, and who is at the carved stern post.
3. (noun) figurehead of a canoe ornamented with perforated spiral carving.
Kei runga kei te pītau e whēterotero ana te arero (W 1971:284). / On top was the carved figurehead with the tongue protruding.
4. (noun) canoe with a pītau figurehead.
Kei te puhinga ki ngā huruhuru kererū, tūī, ehara! kātahi anō ka āta pīwari tēnei mea te waka taua, he toiere, he waka whakarei, he pītau (M 2006:364). / When it is adorned with pigeon and tūī feathers, behold how beautiful the war canoe is, a toiere (war canoe with carved stem and stern), a whakarei (ornamental canoe) and a pītau (canoe with a figurehead ornamented with perforated spiral carving).
pūhou
1. (modifier) young, youthful.
Ka eke nei ōna tau ki te 18, kua kōputu kē i a ia he tahua moni, hei moe māna i te wahine pūhou nei, i a Kataraina Te Urumahue Kātene o Te Rotoiti (TTR 1998:42). / By the time he was 18 Emery had saved a sum of money to marry a young woman from Rotoiti, Kataraina Te Urumahue Kātene.
2. (noun) young (of birds, animals, fish and whales).
Nō te haerenga o ētahi tāngata ki te hopuhopu punua toroa i Rangitūtahi ka mate nei tokoiwa ki te moana (TP 1/12/1900:9). / When some people were going to catch young albatrosses at Rangitūtahi nine died at sea.
See also punua kurī
2. (modifier) young, youthful.
I a ia e tamariki tonu ana i reira, ka taka a Piri Poutapu ki raro i te maru o Te Puea Hērangi, te rangatira taiohi o te iwi o Mangatāwhiri, he wāhi tata atu rā ki Te Paina (TTR 1998:142-143). / While he was still a young child, Piri Poutapu came under the protection of Te Puea Hērangi, the young leader of the people of Mangatāwhiri, a place near Mercer.
3. (noun) youth, adolescent, young person, juvenile.
He taiohi, 18 noa iho ngā tau, ka noho a Te Kāhui hei kaihāpai i te haki a Te Ua i te riri o Kaitake (TTR 1996:215). / He was a youth of just 18 years old when Te Kāhui was the flag bearer of Te Ua's flag at the battle of Kaitake.
