2. (noun) washing, soap.
3. (noun) wash.
Ko te tino taonga ia mō rātou ko te wai kia āhei ai ratou te horoi i ō rātou tinana, i ngā kākahu, me ngā aha noa, aha noa (KO 15/8/1885:2). / But for them the prized possession is water so that they are able to wash their bodies, clothes and other things.
2. (verb) (-na,-tia) to dry-clean.
I mauria e ia te tiakete kia akuakutia (Ng 1993:116). / She took the jacket to be dry-cleaned.
3. (modifier) hygienically, hygienic.
I āta tohutohungia rawatia a Rūmātiki e Huia ki te āhua o te noho pai o te whare, noho akuaku tonu, ki te kai i ngā kai tika mō te hauora, me te whakamōhio atu hoki i a ia ki ngā painga pērā i te uku kairangi (TTR 2000:255). / Huia instructed Rūmātiki on the nature of domestic order and living hygienically, on healthy nutrition and about fine crockery.
4. (noun) hygiene.
I whakaakona rātou e ia ki te mahi pāmu, ki te mahi tiaki whare, me te tiaki pai i ō rātou āhua, akuaku o te tinana (TTR 2000:29). / She trained them in farm and domestic work, personal grooming and hygiene.
2. (modifier) white, clean, faded, pale.
Mehemea he paru te paraihe, ka hē te māhunga mā (TTT 1/4/1923). / If the brush is dirty the clean hair will be contaminated.
2. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to throw away, throw into a heap.
Ka tae te rongo o te riringa o Tamatea ki a Kahuhunu i Tawapata, me te rauiritanga noatanga iho o ngā taonga o tōna matua, ka tapā e Kahuhunu hei ingoa mō tona pōtiki, ko Hine-rauiri (JPS 1905:70). / When news of the annoyance of Tamatea reached Kahuhunu, and the casting away of the presents of his father, Kahuhunu named his new born daughter, Hine-rauiri (Girl-cast-away).
2. (verb) (-a) to scrape clean, scrape - used especially with scraping flax for muka.
Tētahi mahi nui e taea e koutou ko te mahi hāro muka (TWM 28/10/1870:4). / One of the main activities that you are able to do is scraping flax.
Synonyms: pākēkē, waru, wani, harakuku, rakaraka, raraku, tīwani, honihoni, kauhoro, kowani, raku, tuakuku, okoi, rakuraku, weku, hākuku, whawharo, tahitahi, waruwaru, wharowharo, kaku, waku, wakuwaku
3. (verb) to be very low (of the tide).
4. (modifier) calm, smooth (of the sea).
5. (modifier) scraping.
E kōrerotia ana mea ake hangaia e te Pākehā he mira hāro muka i te taha ki Waikouaiti, i ō Ngāi Tahu (TWM 27/5/1869:6). / It is being said that a mill for scraping flax fibre will soon be built near Waikouaiti in Ngāi Tahu territory.
6. (noun) scraping.
Kei Wairau nei te tapahi witi me te patu anō; me te parau whenua, me te hāro muka (TWMNT 27/8/1873:104). / Here in Wairau there is reaping and threshing wheat, ploughing land and scraping flax fibre.
monemone noa
1. (verb) to be completely destroyed, obliterated, swept clean away, wiped out.
Monemone noa ngā haupū papa o te mira kani rākau i Te Kōpuru, i Te Wairoa, Kaipara (TKO 15/9/1883:2). / The stacks of timber of the sawmill at Te Kōpuru, Te Wairoa, Kaipara, were completely destroyed.
Synonyms: orooro, pāhorehore
āmiki
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-ngia,-tia) to tell a story in detail.
E kore e taea e mātou te pānui i ngā reta roa, āmiki kōrero noa, mō ngā tāngata mate, engari anō pea ngā tāngata rongonui ki ngā iwi o te motu katoa (TWMNT 22/5/1877:129). / We cannot undertake to publish long and detailed obituaries, except, perhaps, for people of repute amongst the tribes of the whole country.
2. (verb) (-a,-hia,-ngia,-tia) to gather up without omitting anything, make a clean sweep.
Kua āmikia katoatia ngā kai (W 1971:8). / The food has been cleaned up completely.
3. (modifier) prosy, detailed.
He roa rawa tāu reta, he āmiki kōrero noa (TWMNT 6/2/1877:46). / Your letter is too long and detailed.
Synonyms: autaki
kuhakuha
1. (noun) large dog cockle, Tucetona laticostata - a circular-shaped, bivalve mollusc that lives partly buried in gravel or coarse sand along clean-swept channels at depths of 5-75 m. Shell thick and strong, yellowish to rusty-brown or pinkish with reddish-brown blotches and white inside with a grooved lip.
2. (noun) small dog cockle, Glycymeris medesta - a marine bivalve mollusc that lives in fine sand from shallow water to depths of 75 m. Solid shell, whitish to orange-brown, or reddish-brown or streaked with these colours. White and purple-brown inside.
horoeka
1. (noun) lancewood, Pseudopanax crassifolius - tree with long, thick, stiff leaves with teeth and a central rib, turned down like ribs of an umbrella from a usually slender, erect stem in young trees. Adult tree is round-headed up to 15 m high with a straight, clean trunk and shorter, wider leaves.
kokoeka
1. (noun) lancewood, Pseudopanax crassifolius - tree with long, thick, stiff leaves with teeth and a central rib, turned down like ribs of an umbrella from a usually slender, erect stem in young trees. Adult tree is round-headed up to 15 m high with a straight, clean trunk and shorter, wider leaves.
ohoeka
1. (noun) lancewood, Pseudopanax crassifolius - tree with long, thick, stiff leaves with teeth and a central rib, turned down like ribs of an umbrella from a usually slender, erect stem in young trees. Adult tree is round-headed up to 15 m high with a straight, clean trunk and shorter, wider leaves.
