waenga
1. (location) the middle, among, midst, amid, between, the intervening space - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence. Variation of waenganui.
E hoa mā, tēnei tāku honae hōkeke, he mea kohikohi nāku nō waenga i ngā kōtai i ngā pareparenga o te ngutuawa o Kawaora (TJ 9/11/1899:15). / Friends, this is my small basket of ear fungus which I collected amongst the alluvial soils on the banks of the Kawaroa estuary.
Synonyms: waenganui, waengarahi, kōpū
2. (location) garden - when no noun is expressed.
Tērā te koroheke rā kua tae ki waenga e ngaki ana. / There was the elderly man who had arrived to weed the garden.
2. (noun) go-between, mediator, liaison, intermediary, arbitrator, negotiator, mediation, centre (rugby).
I te pākarutanga mai o te pakanga i Taranaki i te tau 1860, ko Tāmihana te takawaenga me te kaiwhakarite mō ngā Pākehā me ngā Māori (TTR 1990:322). / When war broke out in Taranaki in 1860, Tāmihana assumed the role of mediator and negotiator between Māori and Pākehā.
Synonyms: whakaratarata, kaiwawao, kaitakawaenga, kaiwhiriwhiri, kaiwhakarite
waenganui
1. (location) the middle, among, midst, amid, between, the intervening space - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 121;)
Kei waenganui o te whare me te taiepa tō mātou karāti. / Our garage is between the house and the fence.
See also waengarahi, waengapū, waenga
Synonyms: waenga, waengarahi, kōpū
2. (location) between (of time).
Nō waenganui o te tau, kātahi anō ka puta mai te whakaatu, kua whakaae mai rātou ki tā mātou tono. / In the middle of the year the notification arrived that finally they had agreed to our request.
waengarahi
1. (location) the middle, among, midst, amid, between, the intervening space - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence.
2. (noun) middle, midst, intervening space, heart.
Tēnā pea nō te tekau tau atu i 1840 i whānau ai a Te Pairi Tūterangi, i Maungapōhatu i te waengarahi o Te Urewera (TTR 1996:218). / Te Pairi Tūterangi was born probably in the 1840s at Maungapōhatu, in the heart of the Urewera country.
taihua
1. (noun) intertidal zone, foreshore, seashore, littoral zone, shore between high and low water marks.
Kei te taihua te kāinga o te tuatua. / The home of the tuatua is the intertidal zone.
Synonyms: ara o Hinekirikiri, tapātai, matāwhanga, tahatai
2. (noun) advocate, public defender, counsel.
I kitea e ia tona pūkenga ki ngā mahi a te kaiwawao; he mātauranga i whakaaturia e ia i ngā tau i muri mai i Heretaunga ki te takiwā tuawhenua o Te Matau-a-Māui me Tūranga (TTR 1994:22). / He discovered his skill as an advocate, knowledge which was displayed in later years from Hawke's Bay area and in Gisborne.
3. (noun) mediator, go-between.
Kātahi ka tū mai hoki te kawe a riri ki Taranaki. Ka haere te wā ka whakatau a Taiaroa ko ia hei kaiwawao mō te hunga tauwhāinga i reira (TTR 1990:137). / Then war broke out in Taranaki. Later Taiaroa decided that he would be a mediator for the groups in conflict there.
Synonyms: kaitakawaenga, takawaenga
4. (noun) referee, umpire.
He kaiwawao māraurau nei ia mō te tākaro tēnehi (TTR 2000:236). / He was a qualified umpire for the sport of tennis.
Synonyms: rewherī
ara o Hinekirikiri
1. (noun) intertidal zone, foreshore, seashore, littoral zone, shore between high and low water marks - also as te marae o Hinekirikiri. Hinekirikiri is the female guardian of the intertidal zone.
Ko te ara o Hinekirikiri te kāinga o te toheroa me te tuatua. / The intertidal zone is the home of the toheroa and the tuatua.
Synonyms: taihua, tapātai, matāwhanga, tahatai
2. (noun) deep water between two shoals.
Haere ana koe, ko ngā pipi o te āria; ka noho mātou ko ngā pipi o te whakatakere (NP 2001:51). / You go off like pipi in the deep water between two shoals; we remain like pipi buried in the seabed. (A whakataukī suggesting that following a risky path may lead to disaster while a conservative way ensures survival.)
Nō te mea i a Tūahu-māhina tētahi wāhi o te āria haonga ika, arā ko Te Kahikātea i a Tūahu-māhina, ā, ko te nuinga o te āria i a Kāwharu, ko Takapūāhia, ā, he mea kia riro katoa ai taua āria nei i a Tūahu-māhina, koia tana ngākau ki a Te Kanawa kia patua a Kāwharu rātou ko tana iwi (White 4:94-95). / Because Tūahu-māhina had a section of the net-fishing pool, that is Tūahu-māhina had Te Kahikātea, but Kāwharu had the majority of the pool, called Takapūāhia, Tūahu-māhina wanted to obtain the whole of the pool. That was the reason for his request to Te Kanawa that Kāwharu and his people should be killed.
3. (noun) deep pool or bay in a river.
Ka peke i te tahataha, ka tau atu ki te āria (PK 2008:32). / When she jumped from the river bank she landed in the deep pool.
awarua
1. (noun) ditch, trench.
Nō te marangatanga mai o te 300 o ngā hōia o Peretānia ki te taiapu i te pā, e whanga atu ana a Ngāi Te Rangi i ō rātou wāhi whakarurunga. He maha ngā awarua e honohono haere ana i aua wāhi whakarurunga (TTR 1990:126). / When 300 British infantry stormed the pā, Ngāi Te Rangi were waiting in their defences. There were many trenches connecting those defences.
2. (noun) central passage (in a house).
Ka kawea anō kia kī tonu te awarua o te whare i te kai (JPS 1926:157). / Some more was taken until the central passage of the house was full of food.
3. (noun) corridor - strip of territory between two other tribes or rivers.
Ko te whakarāpopototanga i ngā whakamārama mō ngā rohe o tēnei iwi, arā ko ngā awa o Whangaehu rāua ko Rangitīkei, ko Ngāti Apa kei te awarua (B 1979:118). / This is the summary of the explanations for the boundaries of this tribe, that is Ngāti Apa is in the corridor of land between the Whangaehu and Rangitīkei rivers.
4. (noun) dogskin cloak - made of alternate strips of black and white dogs' hair. Often as kurī awarua or kurīawarua.
See also kurīawarua
kākari
1. (verb) to wrestle, quarrel, battle (between two people).
Ka tū mai ngā tokorua mē ā rāua pouwhenua ka kākari, ka hinga a Te Wakaiti (TTR 1990:184). / The pair stood up with their pouwhenua and when they fought Te Wakaiti was defeated.
Synonyms: pākani, ngangau, kohete, tarahae, riri, tauwhāinga, tautohe, taututetute, totohe, kowhete, kairiri, kekeri, whakanihoniho, tautotohe, taukaikai, ngangare, paka, tatau, tatauranga, taute, whakatete, whawhai, wāwau, whakanehenehe, korokīkī, kōhetehete, kōwhetewhete, rīriri, whāinga, whewhei, taungaungau, kekeritanga, tītaitai kōwhatu, tautohetohe
2. (modifier) quarrelling, bickering, squabbling.
He kupu nā Te Hīka ki tana wahine, he kupu kākari; he ngoungoua, arā he wahine wairangi (W 1971:235). / A word that Te Hīka used for his wife, a word used in a quarrel; an idiot, that is a crazy woman.
