pēperekōutanga
1. (noun) old age, elderliness, retirement age, golden years, third age, advanced years, dotage.
Synonyms: mātāpūpututanga, koroheketanga, kaumātuatanga, rāroa, ruahinetanga, hirinaki, ngā taru o Tura
taipakeke
1. (verb) (-tia) to be middle-aged, mature (of people).
Nōna ka taipakeke ka tino kitea tōna kaha me tōna māia (TTR 1990:357). / When he was middle aged he was noted for strength and endurance.
Synonyms: whakapakari
2. (modifier) mature, middle-aged, elderly, aged.
He mea tono e te pouaru a Tauteka, kia whakaeangia te mate o tōna hoa, ā, nā te rangatira taipakeke tonu nei, nā Te Huiatahi, te kauaeroa i whakatakoto (TTR 1990:125). / Tauteka's widow had demanded utu for the death of her partner, and the ambush had been prepared by Te Huiatahi, an aged chief.
Synonyms: pāhake, pakeke, tūpakeke, whatutoto, taikaumātua, koeke, pakari, whakapakeke
3. (noun) middle-aged person, mature person.
Nā tāna mahi tākuta i whai wāhi ia ki ngā taipakeke o te rohe i pērā rawa ai tōna mōhio (TTR 1998:93). / Through his practice he gained much of his knowledge from his dealings with the old people of the district.
Synonyms: taikaumātua
koroheketanga
1. (noun) old age, maturity.
He tika anō he tamariki koutou: otirā e whanatu ana ki te poutūmārōtanga o te tangata, e wehe mai ai te taitamatanga, e tuku atu ai ki te koroheketanga (TP 1/1/1901:6). / It is correct that you are all young, but you are approaching the prime of life, leaving your youthfulness and entering maturity.
Synonyms: mātāpūpututanga, kaumātuatanga, rāroa, ruahinetanga, pēperekōutanga, hirinaki, ngā taru o Tura
ngā taru o Tura
1. grey hair - a metaphor for old age.
Ko te tūmanako ka kaha tonu te whakauru mai o te hunga kāore anō i tata atu ki ngā taru o Tura, ki ēnei o ā tātou whakamātautau (HM 1/1998:3). / The hope is that the people who are not yet approaching old age will enrol in numbers for these examinations.
Synonyms: mātāpūpututanga, koroheketanga, kaumātuatanga, rāroa, ruahinetanga, pēperekōutanga, hirinaki
kaumātuatanga
1. (noun) old age, latter years, later life.
I tōna kaumātuatanga ka noho a Maniapoto ki Te Ana-uriuri, tētehi ana pākeho kei te takiwā o Waitomo (Te Ara 2011). / In his old age Maniapoto lived in Te Ana-uriuri, a limestone cave in the region of Waitomo.
Synonyms: mātāpūpututanga, koroheketanga, rāroa, ruahinetanga, pēperekōutanga, hirinaki, ngā taru o Tura
3. (noun) middle-aged person, mature person, adult.
Tētahi o rātou he wahine, ko Perepetua, he taikaumatua 22 ōna tau (TH 1/11/1859:3). / One of them was a woman, Perepetua, an adult who was 22 years old.
Synonyms: taipakeke
tawhito
1. (verb) to be old, ancient, primeval, out of date - not used for people in classical Māori.
Kotahi te whare rākau e tū ana i reira, engari kua tawhito, e rua tekau ngā tau e tū tangata kore ana (TWMNT 30/7/1873:86). / There was one house standing there, but it was old having been vacant for twenty years.
Synonyms: tahito
2. (modifier) old, ancient, primeval - not used to describe people in classical Māori.
Ka haupū te kupenga tawhito ki uta, ki ngā parenga o ngā wai tauraki ai ki te rā, ka maroke, ka pakapaka (TP 1/1/1901:6). / The old net lies in a heap on the shore and on the banks of streams to dry in the sun. It dries out and is baked.
Synonyms: tuaukiuki, koroua, mātāpuputu, waikauere, korokoroua, pūkeko, tahito, tūpakeke, kaumātua, tūārangi, aweko, ahungarua
3. (noun) wise person, expert, experienced person, authority.
4. (noun) age, antiquity, ancientness, oldness.
I te kaha anō o te tawhito o tō māua whare i Taumarunui, ka uru mai te mahi a te kiore ki roto i te rūma o aku pukapuka (HP 1991:267). / Because of the age of our house in Taumarunui, lots of mice had infested the room where my books were.
Synonyms: tahito
tahito
1. (verb) to be old, ancient, primeval, out of date - not used for people in classical Māori.
Ka kitea e taua komiti, kua tahito kē ngā rārangi ingoa mō ngā reiti, kua hē noa hoki, me te aro kore noa atu hoki ki ngā wawaetanga o ngā poraka (TTR 1998:234). / That committee discovered that the rating rolls were out of date, inaccurate, and had taken no account of subdivisions of blocks.
See also tawhito
Synonyms: tuaukiuki, koroua, mātāpuputu, waikauere, korokoroua, tawhito, tūpakeke, kaumātua, tūārangi, aweko, ahungarua, pūkeko
2. (modifier) ancient, very old.
Otirā, he itiiti nei ngā mokamoka whenua me te urupā tahito o Aratia i mahue mai ki te whānau (TTR 1996:68). / But only a few small parcels of land and the ancient cemetery, Aratia, remained with the family.
See also tawhito
mātāpūpututanga
1. (noun) old age.
Kua roa kē māua e whakatakoto mahere ana, e whiriwhiri ana mō āhea rā māua toro atu ai i a koe i te rongonga o māua i te hē haere koe i ngā ākinga a ahungarua, a mātāpūpututanga (HM 4/2009:4). / He and I were planning and deciding for a long time when we would visit you because we had heard that you were going downhill in your approaching old age and advancing years.
Synonyms: koroheketanga, kaumātuatanga, rāroa, ruahinetanga, pēperekōutanga, hirinaki, ngā taru o Tura
ahungarua
1. (personal noun) elderly, old (of people), approaching old age.
Kua roa kē māua e whakatakoto mahere ana, e whiriwhiri ana mō āhea rā māua toro atu ai i a koe i te rongonga o māua i te hē haere koe i ngā ākinga a ahungarua, a mātāpūpututanga (HM 4/2009:4). / He and I were planning and deciding for a long time when we would visit you because we had heard that you were going downhill in your approaching old age and advancing years.
Synonyms: waikauere, korokoroua, pūkeko, tahito, tawhito, kaumātua, tūārangi, aweko, tūpakeke, tuaukiuki, koroua, mātāpuputu
2. (noun) elderly person, old person, person approaching old age.
Kua tae mai ahau ki te ao o te ahungarua, o te mātāpuputu. / I have arrived to the world of the elderly, of the older generation.
Synonyms: wheteke, taringa huruhuru, pōua, tūnohunohu
3. (modifier) underscore (computers).
Ka whakakapi rawa a Excel i ngā pūāhua muhu i ia ingoa mā tētahi pūāhua ahungarua (_) (LP 2017). / Excel will permanently replace invalid characters in each name with an underscore (_) character (LP 2017).
4. (noun) underscore (computers).
Kāore te ingoa e tīmata ana ki te reta, ki te ahungarua rānei (LP 2017). / The name does not begin with a letter or an underscore (LP 2017).
haere ake nei
1. for generations, for ages, as always, for a long time, on a long term basis, for ever and a day, on and on, ad infinitum - an idiom to show that something has been that way for a long time and will continue. Sometimes the phrase is repeated.
Me pērā tonu te āhua, haere ake nei (HKK 1999:144). / It should continue to be like that for along time.
I tutuki mārika i a ia te mahi whakatakoto i tētahi hononga tata i waenganui i Papua Nūkini me Aotearoa, i runga i te pakari o te hoahoa ake me te mahi tahi a rātou mā, i te taha o ngā tino māngai o taua whenua, haere ake nei, haere ake nei (TTR 2000:155). / He succeeded in establishing close ties between Papua New Guinea and New Zealand’s on a firm and friendly basis, and developed close working relationships with many of that country’s leading figures on a long term basis.
Synonyms: mau ake nei, nei, āke, ake, ake
mai, mai
1. for ages, from way back, long standing, it goes way back - an idiom to indicate a long length of time. Less commonly each mai is followed by a phrase.
Kua mōhio noa atu te Māori, mai, mai, mai rā anō, ko te hinengaro o te tamaiti kua tīmata kē te hikohiko, te ohooho i te wā tonu o te tōhuatanga (Rewi 2005:43). / Māori have known for a long time that the mind of a child has already begun to be active at the time of foetal development.
Koinā tō rātou āhua mai, mai, he noho noa iho i konā kore noa iho ai. / That’s what they’ve been like for ages, sitting there doing sweet nothing.
Kāore rawa i wareware i a au tēnei aituā, mai i muri mai, mai i muri mai (HP 1991:38). / I have never forgotten this accident from so long ago.
Synonyms: tāukiuki
hirinaki
1. (verb) to lean, slant, slope, depend on, rely on.
Me hirinaki ki te kupu oati o roto o Taiporohēnui (TJ 2/2/1899:6). / We should rely on the promise from within Taiporohēnui.
Synonyms: whakamanawa, whakawhirinaki, tūai, tūoi, tūpuhipuhi, honga, hauwarea, kōhoi, paparewa, tokoroa, pirohea, taiuru, whirinaki, pāhehaheha, tūpuhi, taramore, tītaha, whāiti, whīroki, wharara, whīrokiroki, hīroki
2. (noun) old age.
Synonyms: kaumātuatanga, rāroa, mātāpūpututanga, pēperekōutanga, ngā taru o Tura, ruahinetanga, koroheketanga
mate hirinaki
1. (verb) die of old age.
Ka kī rā ia, "Waiho taku reo kia mate rangatira", arā, kia mate hirinaki, kia mate koeo, kia mate tara-ā-whare engari kia kaua e riro mā te kōhuru rawa e mate ai! (TTTT 2006:12) / He said, "Let my language die a noble death", that is, let it die of old age, of natural causes, but don't allow it be be murdered!
2. (noun) old person, elderly man.
Ko Huriwhenua tonu tōna ingoa whakahua ki ngā pōua me ngā tāua o Ngāi Tahu (TTR 1994:100). / Older people of Ngāi Tahu continued to call him Huriwhenua.
Synonyms: wheteke, taringa huruhuru, ahungarua, tūnohunohu
3. (noun) grandfather.
Tahi: Kei te mōhio koe ki te kaumātua rā? Rua: Āe, ko tōku nā pōua tērā (HJ 2015:215). / Tahi: Do you know that elder over there? Rua: Yes, that's my grandfather.
