taro
1. (noun) taro, Colocasia esculenta - a plant with edible, starchy corms and large, edible, fleshy leaves.
He pēnā anō ngā tōhuka, ngā kānga, ngā pāpapa, ngā merengi, ngā kākāriki, ngā taro me ngā rīwai (HP 1991:14). / The sugar cane, maize, kamokamo, melons, rock melons, taro and potatoes were exactly the same.
2. (noun) bread, loaf of bread.
Nā hohoro tonu a Apikaira, maua atu ana e ia he taro e rua rau, he wāina e rua ngā ipu, he hipi e rima, he mea kua oti te taka, he kānga pāhūhū e rima ngā mehua, he tautau karepe maroke kotahi rau, he papa piki e rua rau, he mea whakawaha ki te kāihe (PT I Hamuera 25:18). / Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
rēwana
1. (loan) (noun) bread made with potato yeast, leaven, yeast - a substance added to dough to make it ferment and rise.
Synonyms: rēwena
takakau
1. (modifier) unmarried, free, single, unattached.
2. (noun) spinster, bachelor.
Ko ngā tāngata mārena e roa atu ana tō rātou oranga i ngā takakau (KO 15/8/1885:8). / Married people live longer than spinsters and bachelors.
3. (noun) unleavened bread (i.e. made without yeast), scone, flapjack, pancake.
Ka kai rātou i ngā toenga o tērā pō; he mīti, he pūwhā; he takakau hei kīnaki (TWK 6:2). / They ate the leftovers of the previous night; meat, sowthistle and unleavened bread to complement these.
Synonyms: panikeke
mahimahi
1. (verb) to copulate, have sexual intercourse, have sex, make love.
Ka puta te kupu a Te-manu-i-te-rā ki a Tāwhaki, "Kaua e puta ki waho i tā kōrua whare mahimahi ai, kei werohia korua e ngā hihi o Te-manu-i-te-rā.’ Kīhai i whakarongo a Tāwhaki, puta ana ki waho mahimahi ai (JPS 1892:22x). / Te-manu-i-te-rā (The-bird-in-the-sun) said to Tāwhaki, "Do not go out of your house to make love, lest you be pierced by Te-manu-i-te-rā's rays." Tāwhaki did not listen, and they went outside and made love.
2. (noun) sexual intercourse, love-making, copulation, sex.
Nā, ka mutu tā rāua mahimahi, haere kē ana a Tāwhaki ki tētehi wāhi kē atu (JPS 1892:22x). / Now, when their love making had ended, Tāwhaki went away to a different place.
3. (noun) low-born, commoner, plebeian.
Synonyms: ware, tūtūā, atuapo, tautauhea, tautauwhea, hauhauā, hūnguengue, kāraroraro, kurumetometo
4. (noun) hīnau, Elaeocarpus dentatus - tall forest tree with long leaves, whitish underneath and producing masses of white flowers and edible berries, the pounded kernels of which form a meal from which hīnau bread is baked, while the bark is used for dye for the initial stage of producing the black of muka.
See also hīnau
hīnau
1. (noun) hīnau, Elaeocarpus dentatus - tall forest tree with long leaves, whitish underneath and producing masses of white flowers and edible berries, the pounded kernels of which form a meal from which hīnau bread is baked, while the bark is used for dye for the initial stage of producing the black of muka.
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.'
hākarameta
1. (loan) (noun) sacrament, Holy Communion, Eucharist - the Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper, in which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed.
I te tū-ā-ahiahi, he mea karakia e Pīhopa Aperahama rāua ko Pīhopa Hopihanihi, ā kai ana a Pīhopa Herewini i te hākarameta (TW 17/8/1878:412). / In the afternoon, Bishops Abrahams and Hobhouse administered the Holy Communion to Bishop Selwyn.
whīnau
1. (noun) hīnau, Elaeocarpus dentatus - variation of hīnau. Tall forest tree with long leaves, whitish underneath and producing masses of white flowers and edible berries, the pounded kernels of which form a meal from which hīnau bread is baked, while the bark is used for dye.
See also hīnau
