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hui

1. (verb) (-a) to gather, congregate, assemble, meet.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 122-128;)

Kua karangatia tēnei komiti kia hui anō ki te tari i Nēpia (TTT 1/7/1927:626). / This committee has been called to meet again at the office in Napier.

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Synonyms: tūtataki, whakatūtaki, tūtaki, porotūtataki, porotūtaki, tūtakitaki, karahui, whakatūtataki, huihui, pūtahi


2. (noun) gathering, meeting, assembly, seminar, conference.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 122-128;)

Ki te haere ia ki ngā hui, me mau te tangata i tōna ake tauera (TTT 1/11/1927:686). / If he goes to gatherings a person should take his own towel.

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Synonyms: wānanga, tūtaki, tūtakitanga, whakamenenga, huihuinga, huinga

hui pāpaho

1. (noun) press conference.

wānanga

1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to meet and discuss, deliberate, consider.

Nā te rūnanga i Pēria i whakahaere te kāwanatanga o te rohe, me te whakawā ina te wānangatia ki roto i te whare rūnanga (TTR 1990:321). / The council at Pēria provided local government and also dispensed justice, after discussion in the meeting house.

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2. (noun) seminar, conference, forum, educational seminar.

Ka whakawāteatia atu e ia tōna marae mō ngā wānanga me ngā huihuinga mātauranga (TTR 2000:118). / He offered his marae for educational seminars and gatherings.

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Synonyms: hui


3. (noun) tribal knowledge, lore, learning - important traditional cultural, religious, historical, genealogical and philosophical knowledge.

Kete tuauri, kete tuatea, kete aronui: Ko ngā kete o te wānanga i tīkina e Tāne i a Io-matua (M 2006:12). / Kit of sacred knowledge, kit of ancestral knowledge, kit of life's knowledge. These are the kits of knowledge that Tāne fetched from Io the-parent (M 2006:15).

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Synonyms: akoranga, tikanga tuku iho, tikanga


4. (noun) instructor, wise person, sage, authority, expert, guru, philosopher, savant.

Kīhai i tae ki ngā pūkenga, ki ngā wānanga, ki ngā tauira (W 1971:479). / It did not reach the repositories of knowledge, the wise people and the skilled people.

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Synonyms: ruānuku, whakatuatea, hīnātore, mātauranga


5. (noun) tertiary institution that caters for Māori learning needs - established under the Education Act 1990.

Ko te Wānanga o Raukawa kua tū hei whare wānanga mō te rangatahi Māori (Te Ara 2013). / Te Wānanga o Raukawa which has been established as a tribal centre of higher learning for young Māori.

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whakawhiwhi

1. (verb) (-a) to award, present, give, endow, supply, bestow, confer, grant - unlike whiwhi, this can take a passive ending and is a verb that can take a direct object.

Kua whakawhiwhi te Whare Wānanga i ngā ākonga ki ā rātou tohu mātauranga. / The University has awarded the students their degrees.
I whakawhiwhia ia ki te tohu DSO. / He was awarded the DSO.
He nui noa atu ngā rōpā o Rūhia i ngā tau e rua tekau ka pahemo ake nei, engari, nā te pāpā o tēnei Epara i wewete katoa, ā, whakawhiwhia iho e ia ki te whenua, mā tēnei, mā tēnei (KO 15/6/1882:1). / There were an immense number of serfs in Russia in the past twenty years, but this Emperor's father set them all free and he gave land to each of them.

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Synonyms: koha, onāianei, whakaari, whakahiku, kōparepare, perehana, tuku, whiu, tāpae, hākari, tuari


2. (modifier) providing, awarding, bestowing, conferring, granting, presenting, giving.

Patu tohorā: He mahi nui tēnei i ērā rā, ā he mahi whakawhiwhi i te tangata ki te moni (TTT 1/11/1930:2181). / Whaling: This was a major occupation in those days and a job where a person could earn money.

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Synonyms: whakarato, homaitanga, hoatutanga


3. (noun) providing, awarding, bestowing, conferring, granting, presenting, giving.

I whakaponotia, arā, i hāngai te whakawhiwhi mai a te Atua i ana whakakitenga ki a Te Mātenga, ā, he mea hoatu māna e kawe te taha wairua ki te iwi Māori (TTR 1996:193). / It was believed that Te Mātenga received direct revelation from God and was given the task of a spiritual mission to the Māori people.

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hui ā-ataata

1. (noun) video conference.

hui taumata

1. (noun) symposium, summit, conference, congress.

Ka tae atu ia ki tētahi hui taumata Māori i Pōneke i te tau 1944 (TTR 1998:159). / He took part in a Māori summit in Wellington in 1944.

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whiriwhiri

1. (transitive verb) confer.

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