2. (noun) stress, trauma, hassle.
I whakatauhia anō hoki me waiho ko te tau 1995 hei tau whakanui i te reo Māori - tōna ora, tōna mau, tōna kōrerotia tonutia ahakoa e hia kē tāmitanga - ā, hei whakaoho anō hoki i a Māori rāua ko Pākehā kia kaha ake te aro mai (HM 4/1997:3). / It was also decided that 1995 should be the year to celebrate the Māori language - its health, its retention, its being still spoken despite the many stresses - and to awaken Māori and Pākehā to pay more attention to it.
2. (verb) (-a,-ria) to prepare, set up.
E mōhio ana te tangata mehemea ki te tangi te riroriro, kua tata te raumati, kua āhuru te whenua, kua takatū te whakaaro o te kuia rāua ko te koroheke ki te rahurahu i te whenua, hei tupunga kai mā rāua (TPH 7/7/1905:3). / A person knows that if the grey warbler sings summer is approaching, the ground is warm and the elderly woman and the elderly man are thinking about preparing the ground for growing food.
Synonyms: whakakaupapa, raweke, whakaute, takataka, whakareri, whakatau, whakatikatika, whakatakatū, takatū, whakatakataka, whakatika, pātā, whakapai, whakataka, rāwekeweke, tītakataka, whakatūtū
3. (noun) bracken, Pteridium esculentum - a common fern throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in open places and disturbed ground, which it colonises rapidly from its underground rhizome. Harsh divided fronds are yellowish green and grow to 3-4 m. Rhizome was pounded and cooked as a staple food in pre-European times.
rārahu
1. (noun) bracken, Pteridium esculentum - a common fern throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in open places and disturbed ground, which it colonises rapidly from its underground rhizome. Harsh divided fronds are yellowish green and grow to 3-4 m. Rhizome was pounded and cooked as a staple food in pre-European times.
rarauwhe
1. (noun) bracken, Pteridium esculentum - a common fern throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in open places and disturbed ground, which it colonises rapidly from its underground rhizome. Harsh divided fronds are yellowish green and grow to 3-4 m. Rhizome was pounded and cooked as a staple food in pre-European times.
mate Pākehā
1. (noun) Pākehā disease, foreign illness - illnesses and diseases introduced by Pākehā since colonisation as opposed to mate Māori which are psychosomatic illnesses attributed to transgressions of tapu or to mākutu.
Ka haumate te iwi i ngā mate Pākehā (Te Ara 2014). / The population was devastated by European diseases.
manehu
1. (noun) bracken, Pteridium esculentum - a common fern throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in open places and disturbed ground, which it colonises rapidly from its underground rhizome. Harsh divided fronds are yellowish green and grow to 3-4 m. Rhizome was pounded and cooked as a staple food in pre-European times.
mānihi
1. (noun) red pondweed, Potamogeton cheesemanii - native aquatic plant found in coastal to montane areas throughout the country, but mostly found in coastal and lowland areas. A common plant of ponds, lake margins and slowly flowing streams. Also colonising roadside ditches. Cream or red-pink flowers in November-March.
Synonyms: rērēwai
2. (noun) mud pondweed, Potamogeton suboblongus - an endemic aquatic plant of coastal to subalpine area, being mostly found in upper montane and subalpine areas in the northern part of its range. More commonly found in shallow, muddy hollows in forest, and colonising tarns and alpine soaks and pools which may partially dry out in summer. Flowers December-March.
Synonyms: rērēwai
mārohi
1. (noun) bracken, Pteridium esculentum - a common fern throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in open places and disturbed ground, which it colonises rapidly from its underground rhizome. Harsh divided fronds are yellowish green and grow to 3-4 m. Rhizome was pounded and cooked as a staple food in pre-European times.
rērēwai
1. (noun) red pondweed, Potamogeton cheesemanii - native aquatic plant found in coastal to montane areas throughout the country, but mostly found in coastal and lowland areas. A common plant of ponds, lake margins and slowly flowing streams. Also colonising roadside ditches. Cream or red-pink flowers in November-March.
2. (noun) mud pondweed, Potamogeton suboblongus - an endemic aquatic plant of coastal to subalpine area, being mostly found in upper montane and subalpine areas in the northern part of its range. More commonly found in shallow, muddy hollows in forest, and colonising tarns and alpine soaks and pools which may partially dry out in summer. Flowers December-March.
2. (modifier) Māori.
Kai tēnei reanga te oranga o te reo Māori me ngā tamariki e whakaakona ana e rātau ki te reo (Kāretu 2015). / The health of the Māori language is with this generation and the children being taught the language by them.
3. (noun) Māori, indigenous New Zealander, indigenous person of Aotearoa/New Zealand - a new use of the word resulting from Pākehā contact in order to distinguish between people of Māori descent and the colonisers.
I akona te reo Māori e ia nō te mea he ngākaunui ia ki te Māori (HP 1991:27). / He learnt the Māori language because he was kindly disposed towards Māori people.
See also māori
