apple - Te Aka Māori Dictionary

āporo

1. (loan) (noun) apple.

E takatū ana mātau ki te hoko mai i ngā Māori i ngā huarākau katoa, arā, paramu, tere, pea, pītiti, āporo, kuini, wāina, me ērā atu tini huarākau (TJ 18/1/1898:9). / We are preparing to buy from Māori all kinds of fruit, that is, plums, cherries, pears, peaches, apples, quinces, grapes and the many other kinds of fruit.

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tane o te kakī

1. (noun) Adam's apple - lump at the front of the throat.

Ka toro te ringa o te pēpē ki te tane o te kakī o tana pāpā (PK 2008:844). / The baby stretched out her hand to the Adam's apple of her father.

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takakau uhi āporo

1. (loan) apple pie.

Kohia he keke, he pīkaokao, he hanawiti, he inu, he takakau uhi āporo (TWK 42:26). / Collect cake, chicken, sandwiches, drinks and apple pie.

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Āporo Nui, Te

1. (loan) (location) New York, The Big Apple.

Synonyms: Niu Ioka, Niu Iaka

korirangi

1. (noun) Adam's apple, lump in the throat.

Pānukunuku ai te korirangi (M 2004:50). / The Adam's apple moves up and down.

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tenga

1. (noun) crop (of a bird).

I mauria mai e te kākā te manapou mai i Hawaiki i roto i tana tenga (PK 2008:914). / The kākā brought this manapou stone from Hawaiki in its crop.

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2. (noun) Adam's apple - the laryngeal prominence at the front of the neck, larger in a man.

Tāpua ana tērā te tenga o te tāne whīroki rā (PK 2008:914). / The Adam's apple of that skinny man is quite prominent.

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3. (noun) goitre - a swelling of the neck resulting from enlargement of the thyroid gland commonly caused by an iodine deficiency in the diet.

He wahine Māori tērā, ko tōna mate he tenga i tōna kakī. Ka tata ki te 30 ngā tau i tipu ai taua tenga ki tōna kakī (TTT 1/1/1925:172). / That is a Māori women and her illness is a goitre in her neck. The goitre had been growing in her neck for nearly 30 years.

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