pēke
1. (loan) (noun) bank (financial).
Ko ngā moni kua kohia me whakaputu ki te pēke, ā ko te itarete kia £20 pea hei kawe i te tamaiti mōhio ki Te Aute (TP 8/1900:3). / The money that has been collected should be deposited in the bank, and the interest, perhaps £20, should be used to send an intelligent child to Te Aute.
tahataha
1. (noun) bank (of a river), steep bank, cliff.
He nui te rākau whiro e tupu ana i te tahataha o taua awa (Popi 1887:32). / There are a lot of willow trees growing along the bank of that river.
Synonyms: taha
2. (noun) slope (of a hill or mountain).
Ko aua whenua, i ngā tahataha raki o Taranaki maunga, e pātata ana ki Nū Pāremata (TTR 1990:28). / Those lands are on the northern slopes of Mt Taranaki, near New Plymouth.
Hakaroa
1. (location) Akaroa, Banks Peninsula.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 149;)
I Koukourarata ana pakeke e noho ana, arā, he nohanga kāinga nei kei Horomaka, Hakaroa rānei nō tētahi hunga hī ika, hunga mahi pāmu itiiti noa nei, ā, otirā he hī ika nei te mahi a tōna pāpā (TTR 2000:201). / Her parents were living at Port Levy, that is at a community of fishermen and small farmers on Banks Peninsula, but fishing was what her father did.
Synonyms: Horomaka
2. (location) Vancouver Arm (Fiordland).
Horomaka
1. (location) Banks Peninsula.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)
I Koukourarata ana pakeke e noho ana, arā, he nohanga kāinga nei kei Horomaka, Hakaroa rānei nō tētahi hunga hī ika, hunga mahi pāmu itiiti noa nei, ā, otirā he hī ika nei te mahi a tōna pāpā (TTR 2000:201). / Her parents were living at Port Levy, that is at a community of fishermen and small farmers on Banks Peninsula, but fishing was what her father did.
Synonyms: Hakaroa
wharewharenga
1. (noun) overhanging bank.
Synonyms: tauwhare, tauwharewhare
taha
1. (verb) to pass by.
Kua taha ngā rā i hao ai i te ika o te moana, o te wai māori (TP 1/1/1901:6). / The days have passed to net the fish of the ocean and fresh water.
Synonyms: hihipa, hemo, hipa, whakatataha, pahure, pahemo, numi, tāhapa, tohipa, kopa, kape, whakatipi, paneke, whakahipa, whakataha, tīpoka, pahika, hiemi
2. (noun) side, margin, edge, bank (of a river), beside.
Ka ahiahi ka kite rāua i tētahi tohorā, ko te upoko i mā, e mānu haere ana i te taha o tō rāua poti, mōhio tonu ake rāua he raiti wēra (TP 10/1902:10). / When it was evening they saw a whale and its head was white and it was floating along beside their boat, so they knew that it was a right whale.
Synonyms: tahataha, taitapa, tapa, whaitua, tāhapa, paenga, tapa
3. (noun) part, portion, section.
Kātahi ka kōwhakina tētehi wāhi o tōna kōhatu kiripaka - ko tētehi taha i mahue atu i Moehau (JPS 1893:224). / He then broke off a portion of his flint-stone - the other portion was left at Moehau.
Synonyms: pīhi, maramara, tiri, tūtanga, hea, wae, kōwaewae, kaupeka, kōwae, wāhi, moka, kōihi, wāhanga, wawae, kōwai, tūāporo, tekihana, tekiona, wehenga, whiti, rārangi
2. (noun) board for moving and working soil.
3. (noun) wash board (of a canoe).
4. (noun) river bank.
Ka puta te kupu oati a te kāwanatanga ki te whakaara taraipiunara hei whiriwhiri i te nui o te moni kāpeneheihana ki te hunga e noho kau ana i ngā paretai o ngā awa (TTR 1998:198). / The government promised to set up a tribunal to assess compensation for people living on the banks of the rivers.
2. (noun) coastline, coast, shoreline (of a lake or the sea).
Nō te 24 o ngā rā o Maehe, 1836, ka puta a mua o te taua a Te Waharoa ki Tauranga, ka whakawhiti i te moana ki te tahatika i Maunganui ki Maketū (M 2006:256). / On the 24th of March, 1836, the vanguard of the war-party of Te Waharoa arrived at Tauranga, and then crossed over the harbour to the coast from Maunganui to Maketū.
2. (noun) side (of a house, valley, etc.).
Ko tētahi tarawāhi o te whare i te tangata whenua, ko tētahi tarawāhi i a rātou, i te ope (JPS 1928:268). / The local people were on one side of the house and they, the travellers, were on the other side.
pareparenga
1. (noun) bank of a river, lake or pool.
Ka haha te tangata rā i ngā pareparenga o te waiariki rā, rapu rawa atu, e takoto whakamaoko ana i raro i ngā tauwharenga kōwhatu (Biggs 1997:119). / That man searched along the sides of the hot pool where she was lying crouched under the overhanging ledges.
2. (noun) overhang, overhanging bank.
Ka mahi te kārearea i tōna kōhanga ki te papa whenua, ki ngā wāhi kōruarua, ki raro i ngā poro rākau, ngā tauwharewhare hoki (Te Ara 2016). / The New Zealand falcon makes its nest on the ground, in a scrape, under logs or overhangs.
Synonyms: wharewharenga, tauwharenga, tauwharewharenga, tauwhare
