tauārai
1. (verb) (-tia) to separate, keep apart, buffer.
He mea kī, nā te hiahia o Ngāti Maniapoto ko Ngāti Tama hei tauārai i te Pākehā i rata ai rātou ki te noho a tērā iwi (TTR 1994:201). / It was suggested that because Ngāti Maniapoto wanted Ngāti Tama as a buffer from the Europeans they tolerated that tribe living there.
Synonyms: kōwai, whakawehewehe, tiriwā, īheuheu, tīwae, tūhāhā, heu, ihi, tuakoi, wawae, whakawehe, whakapirara, tāuke, tāwae, tāwaewae, totohi, tūtahi, nahenahe, kōwaewae, kōwae, tokorau, māhiti, roherohe, tauwehe, tohi, toritori, momotu, motu, motuhake, wae, wehewehe, wehe, whakatāuke
2. (modifier) separating.
Ā, e whakaae ana anō a Tāke, kia mahia, kia whakatūturutia te rohe tauārai o te whenua a Tāke rāua ko Pāhia (TW 22/6/1878:313). / And Turkey also agrees that a boundary between Turkey and Persia be determined and made permanent.
See also rohe tauārai
Synonyms: māhiti
3. (noun) screen, barrier, barricade, obstruction, curtain.
Tērā te pōhatu ka hāpainga ki runga, ko te tauārai ki te hoa i te mate (M 2005:334). / Behold that rock upthrust on high, it marks the barrier to my honoured dead (M 2005:335).
Synonyms: ārai, takitaki, ārei, taunahua, taupā, āraitanga, tairo, pāhokahoka, pātakitaki, tūrutu, pātūtū, whakaruru, rī, mata, pā, rīanga, pākai, pākai riri, araarai, pātū, pekerangi, pāhoka, tītopa
pekerangi
1. (verb) to leap up into the air.
I te putanga o ngā kōrero mō ngā mahi whakatū kanikani a Ngāti Porou he whakahē nā Te Wiremu, ka tū a Te Kopa ki runga pekerangi ai mō te whakahēnga i ana kanikani nō te mea ko ana kanikani he kanikani anake ki te Atua (TP 4/1907:3). / When the discussion emerged about Ngāti Porou holding dances and the Rev Williams criticised them, Te Kopa stood up leaping into the air objecting to the criticism of his dances because they were solely dances to God.
2. (noun) high-pitched voice - a voice pitched above the rest in singing.
Nā te pekerangi o te reo o wahine i tūtū ai te hīnawanawa o tōku kiri. / Because of the woman's high-pitched voice the goose pimples stood up on my skin.
3. (noun) outermost palisade, screen, barrier.
He maha ngā rā e whakaaro ana ngā toa a Ngā Puhi i te ara e horo ai taua pā, a Tua-tini, ā, kore rawa nei. Kātahi ka kōwhiria ngā toa; ka kawea ngā taura, ka mau ki te pekerangi o te pā (JPS 1900:51). / The warriors of Ngā Puhi were many days considering the best means of taking the pā, Tua-tini, but without result. Then certain of the bravest were selected who carried up ropes, and fastened them to the outer palisade of the pā.
Synonyms: tītopa, pāhoka, pāhokahoka, pātakitaki, tūrutu, pātūtū, whakaruru, rī, tauārai, mata, pā, ārai, rīanga, takitaki, pākai, pākai riri, araarai, pātū, ārei
4. (noun) cloak decorated with tufts of red feathers spaced over it.
Ngā taonga i haere atu ai, he taupō, he paepaeroa, he korowai, he pekerangi muka, he pekerangi wūru, he pūkoro whatu Māori, he mere pounamu (KO 15/3/1884:3). / The treasures that were taken were: a rough black and yellow cloak, a cloak with tāniko borders along three sides, a cloak with tags, a cloak decorated with tufts of red feathers spaced over it one made of flax fibre and the other with wool, a cloak with a narrow tāniko border on the sides only and a greenstone mere.
5. (noun) disco dancing.
I tētahi kanikani nahanaha, ka tāruaruatia tētahi tauira nekehanga, ētahi takahanga waewae rānei. Ko te tengitengi tētahi momo kanikani ka taka ki raro i tēnei whakarōpūtanga, ko te pekerangi, ko te kanikani matatira anō hoki (RMR 2017). / A sequence dance is when some types of movement, or some steps, are repeated. One type of dance that falls under this category is a waltz, and there is also disco dancing and line dancing.
ārai
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to obstruct, hinder, screen, block out, shield, prevent, forbid, prohibit, insulate.
He tēpara mō ngā whanaunga, mō ngā huānga e āraia nei e te Karaipiture, e te ture hoki a te Hāhi kei mārena ki a rāua (Ma 1885:15). / A table for the relations, and the progeny forbidden to marry each other by the Scripture and by the law of the Church.
Synonyms: whakamanakore, whakakati, puapua, kahupeka, whakaruruhau, whakangungu rākau, whakapuru tao, maru, pākai, whakangungu, hīra, pukupuku, pākati, tāiha, taipuru, ārei, kati, kōpekapeka, kōpeka, taupā, taupare, pā, whakakōroiroi, whakapā, whakahōtaetae, ngihangiha, aukati, hōtaetae
2. (noun) veil, curtain, blind, apron, barricade, obstacle, screen, insulator.
'E Hēmi, hiwitia ake te ārai hiraka o taku konohi. Kei te hēmanawa au.' (HP 1991:256) / 'James, lift up the silk veil of my face. I am too hot.'
Synonyms: ārei, tauārai, takitaki, komutu, taunahua, whakakōroiroi, rīanga, pākai, pākai riri, araarai, pātū, pekerangi, tītopa, pāhoka, pāhokahoka, pātakitaki, tūrutu, pātūtū, whakaruru, rī, mata, pā
3. (noun) barrier.
Me wai, me whenua mōmona, me rangi aupaki, ā, me heke anō tōna paku tōtā ki te ngaki i te whenua, ki te whakatū pātū hei ārai atu i te kīrearea, i te hauhunga, i te aha noa iho (HM 1/1994:5). / There must be water, productive land, fine weather and the shedding of a little perspiration to cultivate the land and to erect barriers to protect against pests, the frost and anything else.
Synonyms: tauārai
pātakitaki
1. (noun) boundary, division, enclosure.
Nō te taenga ki te roro o te whare, kua kite tonu atu i te pātakitaki kōhatu i te urunga tapu o Kahu. Peke tonu a Ihenga ki runga i te urunga i roto i te pātakitaki (JPS 1893:270). / On arriving at the verandah of the house, they saw inside the stone enclosure where the sacred pillow of Kahu was. Ihenga at once jumped on to the pillow in the enclosure.
2. (noun) screen, breakwind, shelter, containing barrier.
Ki taku rongo ko taua kōhatu he pātakitaki nō te nohoanga o Te Tomotu (JPS 1911:186). / I have heard that that stone was a shelter of the place where Te Tomotu sat.
Synonyms: ruruhau, taumaru, pāruru, taumarumaru, whakamauru, whakamarumaru, whakaruruhau, maru, piringa, tāwharau, tīhokahoka, whakahau, whakamaru, whakamaurutanga, pākai riri, araarai, tītopa, pekerangi, ārei, pātū, pāhoka, pāhokahoka, tūrutu, pātūtū, whakaruru, rī, tauārai, mata, pā, ārai, rīanga, takitaki, pākai
3. (noun) New Zealand sandalwood, Mida salicifolia - slender tree of lowland or lower montane forest, up to 6 m tall. Leaves are slender, leathery and somewhat glossy above. Fruit is narrow and bright red.
See also maire taiki
Synonyms: maire taiki
monoao
1. (noun) monoao, Halocarpus kirkii - a rare tall native tree up to 25 m tall with grey-brown bark that separates off in thickish, irregular flakes. The leaves of adult trees are thick, scale-like and overlap in four rows against the branchlets, while the juvenile leaves are 1.5-4 cm long (see illustration) and sometimes persist until the tree reaches about 10 m in height. Found only from Kaitaia to the Coromandel Peninsula and Port Waikato and on Great Barrier Island.
2. (noun) monoao, Dracophyllum subulatum - shrub to 2 m tall with slender branches and branchlets leafy at the tips only. Leaves are narrow and rigid and minutely serrate. Plants brownish from summer. Flowers white.
I tētahi pakanga ki a Whanganui ka pūpūtia e ia ngā monoao, kia pōhēhētia ai he tāngata (M 2004:332). / During a battle against the Whanganui tribes, he bundled up monoao trees so that the heaps would be mistaken for people.
Synonyms: manoao
manoao
1. (noun) silver pine, Manoao colensoi - a tree that grows to 15 m. Trunk is straight and clear of branches. Found from sea level to 950 m in northern North Island and on the West Coast of the South Island. In the juvenile tree the leaves are long, narrow, pointed, rather limp and spreading, but they become smaller in the semi-adult stage. The leaves of the adult tree are thick, keeled and scale-like.
Ka rite hoki ia ki te manoao i te koraha, e kore hoki e kite i te putanga mai o te pai; engari ko ngā wāhi waikore o te koraha hei kāinga mōna, he whenua tote, e kore nei e nohoia (PT Heremaia 17:6). / For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.
2. (noun) monoao, Halocarpus kirkii - a rare tall native tree up to 25 m tall with grey-brown bark that separates off in thickish, irregular flakes. The leaves of adult trees are thick, scale-like and overlap in four rows against the branchlets, while the juvenile leaves are 1.5-4 cm long (see illustration) and sometimes persist until the tree reaches about 10 m in height. Found only from Kaitaia to the Coromandel Peninsula and Port Waikato and on Great Barrier Island.
puarangi
1. (noun) native hibiscus, Hibiscus richardsonii - an indigenous annual to short-lived perennial herb up to 1 m tall found in the North Island, from Te Paki eastward to Hicks Bay, including Great Barrier and Mayor Islands. Strictly coastal, growing in recently disturbed habitats, such as around slip scars, within petrel colonies, on talus slopes, and under open coastal scrub and forest. Flowers solitary uniformly white, cream to very pale yellow, basally sometimes with pale reddish-pink striations. Flowers October to May.
2. (noun) bladder hibiscus, Hibiscus trionum - an exotic annual to short-lived perennial herb up to 0.8 m tall. Stem leaves green at first becoming purple-red with age, 20-80 mm long, somewhat hairy, segments deeply and coarsely lobed or serrated. Flowers solitary and axillary, often with 1-3 flowers. Petals 20-30 mm long, pale yellow to yellow, basally marked dark brown, purple-red or maroon.
