rākau whai hua
1. (noun) fruiting tree, fruit bearing tree, fruit tree.
I muri mai o te whawhai a Hone Heke rāua ko Kawiti ki Kororāreka, ka whakatōkia ngā rākau whai hua o ngā whenua mahana o tāwāhi ki ngā takiwā o Ngā Puhi rāua ko Te Rarawa, arā te panana, te paināporo, me te ārani, ā he hanga matomato rawa te tupu o aua tū kai ki konei (TWMNT 25/7/1876:173). / After Hōne Heke and Kawiti's battle at Russell, fruit bearing trees of warm countries of overseas were planted in the regions of Ngā Puhi and Te Rarawa, namely bananas, pineapples, oranges, and those types of food thrived here.
kawe
1. (verb) (-a) to carry, convey, take, bear.
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.
2. (noun) conveying, taking.
Mai i taua wā ko te whatumanawa o Te Kere ko te whakahohou i te rongo, te wā hoki i tīmata ai tana kawe i tana kupu ki te nuinga o ngā rohe o Te Ika-a-Māui (TTR 1994:144). / From that time Te Kere was committed to making peace, and it was the time when he began to take his message most districts of the North Island.
3. (noun) handle (as of a basket).
I whiria ngā kawe o te kete e te kuia. / The elderly lady plaited the handles o the basket.
kawekawe
1. (verb) to carry, convey, take, bear, bring - repeatedly.
Ko ngā tiriti o tērā tāone kapi tonu i ngā tū āhua waka o te Pākehā, mai i te hōiho kawekawe mīti a te pūtia tae noa ki ngā tū āhua katoa o te taramukā (TP 10/1909:3). / The streets of that town are full of all sorts of vehicles of the Pākehā, from the horse carrying the butcher’s meat to all sorts of tramcars.
hae
1. (verb) (-a) to scratch, draw, cut up, lacerate, tear, slit, slash, split.
2. (verb) (-a) cause pain, bear ill feeling, cherish envy.
Ko te tangata i ahu mai nei tētahi wāhi o tōna mātauranga i te Pākehā he tangata e whakatōngātia, e haea, e whakatātaretia, e ngau tuarātia e ngā tāngata kūware (TKO 31/8/1920:5). / The person whose knowledge comes partly from the Pākehā is a person who is criticized, envied, scrutinized and subjected to backbiting by ignorant people.
5. (noun) pollen (of flowers).
He kongakonga mōkitokito te hae ka tukuna e te taihema toa o te pua (RP 2009:182). / Pollen is microscopic grains discharged from the male organ of the flower.
6. (noun) cut, slit.
hua
1. (verb) to bear fruit, originate, be abundant, accrue.
Ehara i te mea ko te takaro te hē, engari ko te whakaputa kē i te takaro hei huarahi e peau kē ai te tangata ki te mahi hē, ina hoki he maha ngā hē e hua ana i te kanikani (TP 2/1907:2). / It's not as if the recreational activity is the problem, but the emergence from the activity of an avenue whereby a person can be diverted into wicked deeds because there are many transgressions resulting from dancing.
Synonyms: putu, whakapūranga, tipu, pūtake, take, tupu, pū, mahamaha, maha, ngahoro, makuru, ngerongero, humi, hāwere, rarawe, rari, pukahu, nui, hira, ranea, huhua, ngāhorohoro
2. (verb) to flower, bloom, blossom.
Ka hua te rātā, ka tītaha a Matariki ki te uru, ka tae ki te ngahuru, kua poki te rua kūmara, arā, kua tae katoa te kūmara ki te rua (White 4 1889:115). / When the rātā flowers and the Pleiades set in the west, autumn has arrived and the kūmara storage pit is covered over, that is the kūmara crop is all in the storage pit.
3. (verb) to be full (of the moon).
Ā te 4 o ngā rā kōwhiti ai te marama. Ā te 19 o ngā rā hua ai te marama (TMT 1/10/1861:16). / On the 4th day the new moon appears. On the 19th day is the full moon.
4. (noun) product, fruit, berry, roe, egg, progeny, value, finding, result, outcome, asset.
I ētahi tau he tino kaha kē te hua o ngā piki nei, ā, he tino reka hoki mō te kai. I ētahi rā, i te haere kē mātau, hoki rawa mai kua pau ngā hua te kai i te mahi a te tamariki (HP 1991:13). / In some years these fig trees fruited prolifically and they were very tasty to eat. Some days, when we went elsewhere, when we returned the fruit had all been eaten by the many children.
Synonyms: otinga, anaterope, whakataunga, putanga, tukunga iho, keakea, tātea, uri, aitanga
5. (noun) benefit, gain, asset.
Ahakoa te whakahāweatanga o te tangata ki te haere a Hirini Taiwhanga ki Ingarangi, he hua nunui kua puta mai i tana haere (KO 15/1/1883:6). / Despite people's intolerance towards Hirini Taiwhanga's journey to England, many benefits resulted from his trip.
2. (noun) black shag, great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae - largest shag, black with browner wings and tail and white patch on cheeks and throat. Facial skin yellow. Bill grey, eye green, feet black. Found on rivers, streams, lakes, estuaries, harbours and coastal waters.
See also kawau
2. (experience verb) (-tia) to remember, recollect, bear in mind, know.
Kātahi ka haere ngā tāngata ki te moe, ka ora hoki te ngākau i te kohu kua mahea, e mahara ana ka rere pai tēnā tō rātou kaipuke ki te kāinga (TWMNT 10/3/1874:63). / Then the people went to sleep relieved that the fog had cleared and knowing that their ship could sail home.
Synonyms: hua, matatau, mātau, pūrangiaho, mōhio, whakamahara, whakamaumahara, manatu, maumahara
3. (experience verb) to be anxious.
Ka mahara anō te ngākau o te hoa o Hakawau, ka mea, "Kei konei pea māua mate ai" (NM 1928:148). / Hakawau's friend was anxious again and said, "Perhaps it is here that we will die."
4. (modifier) thoughtful.
He wahine ngākau mahara, he marere, he nihowera i āna mahi manaaki i ōna whanaunga, i ōna hoa Māori me te tini noa atu o te Pākehā (TTR 1994:18). / She was a thoughtful gracious woman and a generous host who gave hospitality to her relatives, her Māori friends as well as many Pākehā.
5. (noun) recollection, thought, memory, reasoning.
Nō tō mātau haerenga he wareware anake i a au taku hāmanu ki te wāhi i noho rā mātau. Kotahi māero pea mātau e haere ana, kātahi anō au ka puta mahara ake ki taku hāmanu, heoi ko taku hokinga mai tēnei ki te tiki i taku hāmanu (TPH 15/7/1901:3). / When we set off I forgot my ammunition which was at the place we were camped at. We had travelled approximately one mile when I finally remembered my ammunition and so I returned to get it.
Synonyms: maumaharatanga, hokinga mahara, pūmaharatanga, whakamahara
6. (noun) spleen.
Ka oti te tinana, ka kumea ngā ringaringa, ka kumea ngā waewae, ka pokaia te tara, ka kumea ngā raho, ka whakanohoia ngā puapua, ngā werewere, ngā hanahana, te katitohe, ka kumea te tonetone, ka pokaia te kumu, ka whakanohoia te piro me te puku, te mahara, te ate, ngā tākihi, te tōngāmimi, ka hangā te ārai, ka oti katoa ngā mea o te tinana (HWM 27). / When the body was completed, the arms and legs were drawn out, the vagina was pierced, the labia majora was drawn out, and the ovaries, the labia minora, the vulva, and the hymen were implanted, the clitoris was drawn out, the anus was pierced and the odour, the stomach, the spleen, the liver, the kidneys and the bladder were implanted, and the diaphragm was made and the body was completed.
ngongo
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to suck, suck up, inhale, suck out, drink (with a straw), siphon.
He wā anō tō te kākā e mahia ai (arā e patua ai), kei ngā wā e pua ai ngā puāwai o ngā rātā, ka kitea te nui o te kākā e rere ana ki te ngongo i te wai o roto i te puāwai o te rātā (JPS 1895:135). / But the season is different for the kākā which are hunted when the flowers of the rātā bloom, and many kākā are seen flying to suck the nectar in the flowers.
2. (verb) to sail close to the wind, bear up into the wind.
Ā ka kahakina te kaipuke, tē ngongo ki te hau, nā ka tukua e mātou ki tāna, ā ka paea (PT 27:15). / And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
3. (verb) to waste away, become thin - sometimes used figuratively in the phrase ngongo ngā pāpāringa for old age.
Otirā e kore pea tātou nei e kite, tēnei ka ngongo nei ngā pāpāringa (TWMNT 19/5/1874:138). / But we who are wasting away, probably won't see that.
4. (noun) nectar, juice of flowers, honey.
E kai ana i te ngongo kōrari (W 1971:234). / Eating the flax flower nectar.
Synonyms: waihonga
5. (noun) sucking out, suction.
He kaiota te manu nei. Ko ētahi o āna tino kai, ko ngā kākano, ngā rau, ngā tātā me ngā pakiaka o ētahi tipu. Ka kaikainga ngā mea kākoa, me te ngongo i te pia o roto (HM 4/1998:4). / This bird is a herbivore. Some of its staple foods are seeds, leaves, stalks and the roots of some plants. Fibrous things are eaten and the sap inside is sucked out.
6. (noun) tube, drinking straw.
7. (noun) inhaler.
E ai ki ētahi rangahau hou kāore ngā tāngata whakamahi i taua ngongo i te whakatūrorotia, me te aha kua heke iho te maremare me te tīmohu, ā, kei te pakari ake ō rātou tinana (Te Kaea 21/1/2015). / According to some new research, people using the inhaler are not being harmed, and what's more there's a reduction in coughing and asthma, and their bodies are stronger.
2. (noun) direction, course, bearing.
I haere mai tēnei tangata i te takiwā o Pukemaire, e ahu ana mai ki tēnei tarawāhi o Waiapu, me te tākawe hīnaki tuna nei; e ahu rawa ana te raranga o tana haere ki te takiwā ki te tonga, kei reira hoki te roto hei tukunga mō taua tū kupenga (TWMNT 18/4/1876:94). / This man came from the vicinity of Pukemaire, heading to this side of Waiapu, carrying an eel trap on his shoulder, heading in the direction of the area to the south and at that place there is the lake for letting out that type of net.
whakarewa
1. (verb) (-ia,-ina,-ngia) to set in motion, launch, put afloat.
Ka whakarewaina ngā waka taua nei, a 'Te Kōtui-tī' me 'Te Tai-o-te-puruhi', ka maunu te ope taua ko te hoenga ki te takiwā ki Waitangi (NIT 1995:331). / The war canoes 'Te Kōtui-tī' and Te Tai-o-te-puruhi' were launched and the war party set off to paddle to the Waitangi district.
Synonyms: whakarewatanga, mānu, whakaterenga, uaki, rōnihi, rōnohi, whakamānu, ranga
2. (verb) (-ia,-ina,-ngia) to heat, defrost.
He mea whakarewa te haeana ki te hiko i ēnei rā, engari, i ngā wā o mua i whakarewangia i runga i te tō. / An iron is heated with electricity these days, but in the past it was heated on the stove.
3. (verb) (-ia,-ina,-ngia) to melt (something), dissolve (something).
E ono anō ngā rerenga o 'Te Pihoihoi' ka mutu, nō te pō ka wāwāhia e ngā Māori te perehi ko ngā reta i whakarewaina hei matā pū (TP 12/1906:10). / There were just six issues of 'Te Pihoihoi' before it stopped and one night the printing press was smashed by the Māori and the type was melted down for bullets.
4. (verb) (-ia,-ina,-ngia) to elevate, lift, jack up, suspend.
Māna e whakarewa te kakau o te hoe (M 2004:342). / He will raise the paddle aloft.
Synonyms: tiraki, tīhei, whakaikeike, whakamaranga, ararewa, hāpai, huataki, rangaranga, whakatairangaranga, hiki, tārewa
5. (modifier) melting (something), smelting.
I a au i Poihākena i kite rawa au i te whare whakarewa moni (HKW 1/7/1900:1). / When I was in Sydney I actually saw the mint.
6. (modifier) floating, bearing.
Haere rā, e pā, i ngā tai whakarewa kauri ki te uru (M 2004:284). / Farewell, sir, depart on the kauri-bearing tides to the west.
7. (modifier) smeared.
I tīaria mai tō mata whakarewa (M 2004:60). / Your smeared face was exposed to view.
ukauka
1. (verb) (-tia) to sustain, support, bear.
Ko 1940 te tau i taea ai e Te Puea te hoko mai tētehi pāmu e tū tata ana ki te marae, i runga i tana tūmanako, ka puta mai i reira ētehi whiwhinga moni hei ukauka i Tūrangawaewae (TTR 1996:47). / In 1940 Te Puea was able to buy a farm close to the marae, which she hoped would provide an income to sustain Tūrangawaewae.
2. (verb) to be preserved, last.
Ka kawea ngā kai ki runga whata kia ukauka ai mō ētahi rangi (W 1971:466). / The food was placed on raised platforms so that it would last for a number of days.
Synonyms: whakamutunga, mātāmuri, nō tērā, i tērā, tērā, tōmuri, tauhiku, tauhikuhiku
3. (noun) cash.
Pēnei ai au nō whea ngā tāngata kaipakihi e rata mai ki tēnei kaupapa, engari he autaia tonu tā rātou tautoko-ā-wairua mai, me te kī mai anō he ukauka ka whai mai i tērā, ki te kitea he kaupapa e hiahia ana rātou ki te tautoko atu (HM 1/1995:10). / I wondered where the business people were who would be sympathetic to this cause, but they were pretty good with their support in principal, with the promise that cash would follow that if a cause was found that they wanted to support.
oati teka
1. (loan) (noun) perjury, false statement, bearing false witness.
Ko au, ko Kārena Ruataniwha, o Ōmāhu, he tangata Māori nō Niu Tīrani, e tino kī pono ana mō te whakawākanga a Hōri Paraoa Tonore mōku, mō te oati teka, ko aku kōrero i kōrero ai au i te Whare Whakawā i te Manei, te 24 me te Tūrei, te 25 o ngā rā o Māehe, 1879, i te whakawākanga i a Hōri Paraea Tonore mō te hara whakatupu hē mō te tangata, i pono rawa aua kōrero āku (TWMNT 23/8/1879:514). / I, Kārena Ruataniwha, of Ōmāhu, a native of New Zealand, do solemnly and sincerely declare that in reference to the prosecution of George Prior Donnelly against me for perjury, I hereby state that the evidence given by me at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday, the 24th and Tuesday, the 25th of March, 1879, when George Prior Donnelly was prosecuted for conspiracy, was perfectly true.
Synonyms: kōrero teka
2. (noun) equipment, property, tool, goods, prop.
ahunga
1. (noun) direction (of movement), bearing, orientation.
Arā anō ngā kupu ake a tēnā iwi, a tēnā iwi mō ngā ahunga matua (TRP 2010:97). / There are other words that each tribe has for the primary compass directions.
Synonyms: ahu
2. (noun) source.
E hia nei ngā kōrero a Hoani i whakamāoritia, ka meatia e Te Waiti ki roto i tana pukapuka tuawhā, 'Ko ngā tātai kōrero whakapapa a te Māori me ngā karakia o nehe', engari kāore i whakahuatia te ahunga mai i a Hoani (TTR 1994:59). / Hoani translated large chunks, which John White incorporated into his volume four of 'The ancient history of the Maori', but failed to acknowledge that the source was from Hoani.
3. (noun) origin.
He tino tohunga a ia ki ngā kōrero e pā ana ki te ahunga me ngā hekenga mai o te Māori me ngā iwi Māori o Poronihia – he kaupapa, taro ake nei, i tirohia ai e Te Rangi Hīroa (TTR 1996:13). / He was a leading authority on Māori and Polynesian origins and migrations – a subject Peter Buck was later to explore.
Synonyms: kunenga, takenga, pūnga, toi, pū, orokohanga, mātāwai, pūtake, ūkaipō, pī, orokohanganga, take
4. (noun) dimension (of space).
Kotahi anake te ahunga o tētahi rārangi, ko te roa. E rua ngā ahunga o tētahi papa - ko tōna roa me tōna whānui. E toru ngā ahunga o tētahi matarau, arā, ko te roa, te whānui me te teitei (TRP 2010:96). / A line only has one dimension - length. A plane surface has two dimensions - length and breadth. A solid has three dimensions - length, breadth and depth (TRP 2010:96).
matakēkē
1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to bear ill will, have ill feeling.
I taua hui, ka pāngia a Mākarini, te tama mātāmua a Ngata e te kōea, ā, i te hoa rangatira o Ngata, i a Arihia e tiaki ana i a Mākarini i te kāinga, ka pā anō hoki taua mate ki a ia. He ika paerua te parekura, nā te mea kāre i taea wawetia te tiki he rongoā tika mō rāua. Pākikini ana te ate o Ngata, ā, he wā a Ngāti Porou rāua ko Tainui e noho matakēkē ana (TTR 1996:108). / At the hui Mākarini, Ngata's eldest son, contracted dysentery and while Ngata's wife, Arihia, was nursing Mākarini at home, she caught it too. Both died before they could get proper medicine. Ngata was devastated, and for a time there was ill feeling between Ngāti Porou and Tainui.
2. (modifier) bearing ill will, having ill feeling.
Ehara tāna i te tū matakēkē ki te Pākehā, ā, ehara i te tū e tautoko ana i te Tiamana; engari, ko tāna tū he tautoko kē i te Māori (TTR 1996:50). / Hers was not a stand bearing ill will towards the Pākehā, and nor was it a stand in support of the Germans, but her stand was support for Māori.
hāpai
1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to take up, support, shoulder.
Ka roa kātahi ka tahuri a Ngā-tokowaru ki te whakatūtū i tana ope taua, ā, ka eke ki te mano āna toa hei hāpai i tana pakanga ki a Ngāti Hikairo (NIT 1995:347). / After some time Ngā-tokowaru set about raising his war party, and his warriors numbered a thousand in support of his war against Ngāti Hikairo.
Synonyms: tarapakihiwi, pokowhiwhi, pokihiwi, pokohiwi, pakihiwi
2. (verb) (-a,-na,-nga,-ngia,-tia) to lift up, lift, elevate, raise, mete out.
Kātahi ka hāpainga au e Rihimona ki runga, ka pangaia au ki roto i te awa (HP 1991:20). / Then Rihimona lifted me up and tossed me into the stream.
Synonyms: whakatāiri, kōranga, riariaki, riaki, whakatairangaranga, hiki, tārewa, tiraki, whakarewa, tīhei, whakaikeike, whakamaranga, ararewa, huataki, rangaranga, whakarawe, whakatipu, whāngai, whakaaranga, hī, rangahua, huaranga, araara, whakatiputipu, whakakaurera, whakaara, whakatū, mairanga, whakapakeke, whakatupu
3. (verb) (-a,-nga,-ngia,-tia) to begin (a song, karakia, etc.).
Ka eke ki runga i te peka rākau ka hāpai i tana waiata (NIT 1995:363). / He climbed onto a tree branch and began his song.
4. (verb) (-a,-nga) to set out, set off, start out, get under way (of a journey, etc.) - especially when used with the passive ending.
I te ata ka hāpaia te ope, ā, moe rawa atu i Te Kainga-pipi - kei Wai-ngaro (NIT 1995:257). / In the morning the party set off and they finally slept at Te Kainga-pipi - at Wai-ngaro.
5. (verb) to rise (of heavenly bodies), dawn.
Rā te haeata e hāpai ana mai (JPS 1948:66). / There behold the dawn's rising.
6. (verb) to carry, bear (weapons and tools).
Ko ōna mātua he toa katoa ki te hāpai rākau (TPH 15/12/1899:5). / His father and uncles were all warriors who took up arms.
7. (noun) carrier, bearer, porter.
Te amorangi ki mua, te hāpai ō ki muri (JPS 1904:76). / The priests are in front, the bearers of provisions in the rear. (A whakataukī said of an army where everybody should be in their place. It is also explained as the 'amorangi' being the spiritual side and the 'hāpai ō' as the physical needs, thus implying that the spiritual aspect should not be neglected.)
