tūtae ikamoana
1. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: rengamutu, kōkihi, rengarenga
tātahi
1. (location) the beach, seaside, riverside - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei. Used when referring to the beach from an inland perspective.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 15-16;)
Haere ai tō mātou whānau ki tātahi ia raumati, ia raumati. / Our family goes to the beach every summer.
2. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach,Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, rengamutu, rengarenga
rengamutu
1. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, kōkihi, rengarenga
rengarenga
1. (verb) to be crushed, pounded, destroyed, beaten.
Synonyms: kōrengarenga
2. (noun) rock lily, New Zealand lily, Arthropodium cirratum - a native plant with light green, broad and strap-like, glossy leaves and white flowers with yellow and purple centres, star-like on spindly, branching stalks. Grows in the North Island and the northern South Island, mostly on sea cliffs.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 98;)
Koirā a ia i kī ai: 'Māku anō e hanga tōku nei whare. Ko te tāhuhu he hīnau ko ngā poupou he māhoe, patatē. Me whakatupu ki te hua o te rengarenga, me whakapakari ki te hua o te kawariki.' (TTR 1994:134) / That's why he said: 'I myself shall build my house. The ridge-pole will be of hīnau and the supporting posts of māhoe and patatē. Raise the people with the fruit of the rengarenga, strengthened them with the fruits of the kawariki.'
3. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, rengamutu, kōkihi
One-roa-a-Tōhē, Te
1. (location) Ninety Mile Beach - a long beach on the western side of the northern tip of the North Island.
See also Whāro Oneroa-a-Tōhē, Te
Synonyms: Whāro Oneroa-a-Tōhē, Te
nihinihi
1. (noun) shore bindweed, seashore false bindweed, beach morning glory, Calystegia soldanella - a native creeping plant with roundish to kidney-shaped, glossy, fleshy leaves on long stalks. Flowers are large, pale pink and bell shaped, with darker pink bands. Found on coastal sand and shingle and around some lakes.
Synonyms: panahi
paketai
1. (noun) driftwood, debris cast up on the beach.
Otirā kaua te waka haere ki te hī ika e utu, ā, kia kohi noa te Māori i te wahie paketai o te awa (TW 27/7/1878:371). / But the canoes going fishing should not have to pay, nor should the Māori just collecting driftwood of the river for firewood.
Whāro Oneroa-a-Tōhē, Te
1. (location) Ninety Mile Beach.
Nō te tau 1943 i petihanatia e ia me ērā atu o ngā kaumātua te Pāremata mō te take a Te Aupōuri rātou ko Te Rarawa ki te rangatiratanga o Te Whāro Oneroa-a-Tōhē (TTR 1998:78). / In 1943 he and other elders petitioned Parliament concerning Te Aupōuri and Te Rarawa ownership of Ninety Mile Beach.
Synonyms: One-roa-a-Tōhē, Te
panahi
1. (noun) shore bindweed, seashore false bindweed, beach morning glory, Calystegia soldanella - a native creeping plant with roundish to kidney-shaped, glossy, fleshy leaves on long stalks. Flowers are large, pale pink and bell shaped, with darker pink bands. Found on coastal sand and shingle and around some lakes.
2. (noun) larger bindweed, hedge bindweed, Calystegia sepium - a herbaceous perennial that twines around other plants to a height of up to 2-4 m. Leaves are arranged spirally, simple, pointed at the tip and arrowhead shaped, 5-10 cm long and 3-7 cm broad. Flowers are produced from late spring to the end of summer. The open flowers are trumpet-shaped, 3-7 cm diameter, white, or pale pink with white stripes.
tāhuna
1. (noun) sandbank, shoal.
Koia te tāhuna e takoto nā i te taha raki o te pūaha o Mānuka (JPS 1946:32). / This is the sandbank that lies to the north of the Manukau Harbour entrance.
Synonyms: matatāhuna, rāngai, pāti, tuahiwi
2. (noun) seaside, beach, sandy shore.
Ko te tāhuna: He onepū te papa o tēnei nōhanga i te takutai moana. Ko te nōhanga tēnei o te toheroa, te tuatua, ētahi momo pāpaka, me ētahi atu rauropi e kai ana i te meroiti o roto i te wai tai (RP 2009:294). / The sandy shore: The bed of this habitat on the sea coast is sandy. This is the habitat of toheroa, tuatua some species of crabs, and some organisms eating the plankton in the sea water.
one
1. (noun) beach, sand, mud, earth, soil.
E kī ana ā tātau nei kōrero, ko Tiki te tangata tuatahi, ko Hine-ahu-one te wahine tuatahi i pokepoketia ki te one i Kurawaka (TTT 1/8/1925:275). / Our narratives say that Tiki was the first man and that Hine-ahu-one, the first woman, was shaped with earth at Kurawaka.
Synonyms: kirikiri, onepū, wharu, paruparu, kene, hū, paru, poharu
eke
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to get on, embark, board (a vessel), mount (a horse, vehicle, etc.), ride, accede - generally to place on something else.
I eke ia ki runga i te iata o tōna hoa, ka haere ki te whakarērere i te moana; ko te putanga o te pūrekereke hau, whati tonu atu te maihe o te kaipuke, ka hinga ki te moana (TP 1/6/1901:7). / He embarked on his friend's yacht and went to sail about on the ocean; a gust of wind blew and the mast of the ship snapped and fell into the sea.
See also eke hōiho
Synonyms: whakaae
2. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to come in to land, reach, beach, land and settle.
Ka eke a Whata ki runga ki tēnei whenua noho ai (JPS 1906:61). / Whata landed on this land to live.
3. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to climb, ascend.
Ko tētahi maunga tino tiketike rawa ko Irihia; e rua rā tūturu e piki ana ka eketia ai te tihi (JPS 1927:350). / There was a very high mountain called Irihia, and ascending to the summit took two full days of climbing.
4. (verb) to rise (as a star, etc.).
5. (verb) to rise in swellings.
He mate pukupuku, ka papauku katoa te kiri, he eke nō te kiri (W 1971:261). / A cutaneous disease, covering all the skin, and having swellings of the skin.
6. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to achieve, manage to reach, attain.
Ka mea anō a Tāwhaki ki a rātau, “Ee, kei te wene koutou kei eke te toru rau i a au! Kāti noa te harawene, e hoa mā!” (TAH 35:20) / Tāwhaki said to them, “Hey, you are all jealous that I might manage three hundred! Stop being jealous, my friends!”
Synonyms: tutuki
7. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to exercise over, control, subject to, liable to.
I nāianei ki te whakaritea ngā kawenga a te ture i whakaae ai ki runga ki ō tātau whenua, kāore rawa e tata atu ki te taimaha o ngā kawenga kei runga i ngā whenua Pākehā. Ko ngā whenua papatipu kāore e eketia e te reiti (TTT 1/7/1922:8). / Currently, if the legal liabilities that are authorised on our lands are compared, the burden is nowhere near as heavy as it is on Pākehā properties. Māori land held under customary title is not subject to rates.
8. (noun) riding, embarking, boarding (a vessel), mounting (a horse, vehicle, etc.).
E hia kē nei ngā mētara me ngā paraihe i riro mai i a ia mō te whutupaoro, mō te eke paihikara, mō te mekemeke me ērā atu whakataetae (TTR 1996:202). / He won many medals and trophies in football, cycling, boxing and other sports.
tāwhaowhao
1. (noun) driftwood, debris cast up on the beach.
He tāngata ahu māra te mahi a ngā Rikihana, ā, i mua o te haerenga, o te hokinga mai rānei o Īnia i te kura, he miraka kau, he kato manga, he kohikohi, he tapahi tāwhaowhao mai i te ākau wāna mahi (TTR 2000:225). / The Rikihanas were market gardeners and before or after school Īnia had to milk cows, pick vegetables, and collect and chop driftwood from the beach.
