centre - Te Aka Māori Dictionary

rito

1. (noun) centre shoot, young centre leaf of the harakeke, new harakeke shoot.

Hutia te rito o te harakeke, kei whea to korimako e kō? (JPS 1990:55). / If you pluck out the centre shoot of the flax, where will the bellbird sing?

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poka pū

1. (noun) centre spot, direct route, short cut, middle, centre, hub, bull's-eye, core, nucleus, axis, agency.

I mea ia me taiāwhio pea tana haere rā tahaki, e kore e poka pū tana haere i waenganui taua koraha (TWMNT 24/3/1874:71). / He decided that he should probably go around the side and not straight through the middle of the open country.

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pokapū

1. (noun) centre spot, direct route, short cut, middle, centre, hub, bull's-eye, core, nucleus, axis, agency - sometimes as two words, i.e. poka pū.

I ngā tekau tau o 1920, o 1930, ka aratakina e te mokopuna a Tāwhiao, e Te Puea Hērangi, tōna iwi ki te whakatū i te marae o Tūrangawaewae i Ngāruawāhia. Koinei te pokapū o te Kīngitanga (Te Ara 2014). / In the 1920s and 1930s Te Puea Hērangi, Tāwhiao's granddaughter, led the Waikato people in establishing Tūrangawaewae marae at Ngāruawāhia. This is the centre of the King movement.

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Synonyms: pokatata, tukutata, poka pū, waengapū, wē, pokapūtanga, waengarahi

whakaipurangi

1. (noun) resource centre.

mokoā wēanga

1. (noun) (softball) centre outfield.

waenga

1. (noun) (sport) centre line.

2. (noun) (sport) half-way line.

topa pū

1. (noun) centre (rugby).

E rua nei ōna tūranga i te tīma: ko tēraka o te topa rua, topa pū kē rānei (TTR 2000:196). / He had two positions in the team: that of second five-eighth or centre.

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Pou o Te Whakaaro Nui, Te

1. National Centre of Mental Health Research, Information and Workforce Development.

whānakenake

1. (noun) moko in the centre of the forehead.

Kia kite iho au ō hua whakairo, ō whānakenake (M 2005:372). / So that I might see your your moko, your forehead designs.

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Mangatoatoa

1. (location) a location on the banks of the Pūniu river west of Te Awamutu regarded as the centre of the Tainui territory.

Kei te pepeha nei ngā whakamārama mō ngā whenua o ngā iwi o Tainui: Mōkau ki runga, Tāmaki ki raro, Mangatoatoa ki waenganui, ko Pare Waikato, ko Pare Hauraki, ko te Kaokaoroa-o-Pātetere (Te Ara 2011). / The lands of the Tainui tribes are described in the saying: Mōkau above, Tāmaki below, Mangatoatoa in the centre, and there is Pare Waikato, Pare Hauraki, and the extended arm of Pātetere.

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pū huringa

1. (noun) centre of rotation.

pū whakarahi

1. (noun) centre of enlargement.

tokomanawa

1. (noun) centre ridge pole of a meeting house (usually pou tokomanawa).

pūtahi

1. (verb) (-ngia) to join, meet.

Ka tono a Te Rangimōwaho ki a Ngāti Koura, i runga i te kaupapa kia pūtahi rātau ki te pakanga ki te hoariri (TTR 1990:237). / Te Rangimōwaho made a request to Ngāti Koura that they join to fight the enemy.

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