2. (modifier) cool, breezy, airy.
I te awatea, me noho te tūroro i roto i te rūma hauangi, hau pai (TTT 1/10/1929:1904). / In the daytime the patient should sit in a cool, ventilated room.
3. (noun) cool, cool breeze, coolness.
Mēnā he whero te tae o te kapua, ka ua. Mēnā he mā, ka pupuhi te hau. Mēnā he kōwhai, ka pā mai te hauangi, me te rangi paki (Te Ara 2015). / If the colour of the cloud is red, it will rain. If it is white, the wind will blow. If yellow, a gentle breeze and a fine day will occur.
2. (noun) breeze, wind.
Ka kī ia, “He marino tuaukiuki āpōpō, he kāwatawata tātā moana te kōangiangi. Ka haere au ki te moana.” (JPS 1911:17). / He said, “It will be settled calm tomorrow, the wind will be a light sea-breeze. I shall put to sea.”
2. (modifier) frozen, chilled.
Ko ngā utanga a taua tima i tēnei wa: Kotahi mano ngā pouaka ika whakamātao, nō ngā whare mahi ika o konei; e 40 ngā pēre wūru; 1 te kau; 1 te hōiho (TP 3/1912:8). / The cargo of that ship at this time is: One thousand boxes of frozen fish from the fish works here; 40 bales of wool; one cow; and one horse.
3. (noun) coldness, chill, coolness, cooling, chilling.
Mā te whakamātao, mā te kaurori e ngaro ai te piro o ngā kai i roto i te kirīmi (TTT 1/10/1927:696). / By chilling and stirring the odour of the feed in the cream will disappear.
tau kē (nei)
1. this is so cool, this is so neat, magnificent, great.
Synonyms: whakahira
kōtaotao hau whenua
1. (noun) cool land breeze.
Nā, ki te pā mai tētahi hau he kōtaotao hau whenua, hau moana rānei, he tohu tēnā e tata ana tētahi marangai te puta mai, he ua pūkohukohu, he ua whakaheke rānei (JPS 1927:357). / Now should a cool land breeze or sea breeze spring up, that is a sign that bad weather is coming, misty rain or a heavier rain.
2. (noun) cool air, fresh air.
Tōia ake te tatau kia tuwhera, kia puta mai ai te hauhau ki a au (W 1971:38). / Pull the door open so that I can feel the cool air.
pūangiangi
1. (stative) be cool, refreshing.
Synonyms: pūangi
2. (noun) cool breeze.
pūangi
1. (stative) be cool, refreshing.
Synonyms: pūangiangi
2. (noun) cool breeze.
kōtao
1. (modifier) cool, chilling.
Ko te tiketike o ngā pakitara kia kotahi te whanganga; ko te whānui kia kotahi te whanganga me te tuke ringa, ka mutu. I pērā ai te tiketike kia tārewa ai te hau kōtao ki runga, ka puta ki waho o te whare (JPS 1929:258). / The height of the walls was one fathom; the width was one fathom and the length of the forearm from one elbow to the fingers of the other extended arm. The high walls were made like that so that the cold air would ascend and so escape from the house.
2. (verb) to die out, be extinguished - of feelings, recollection, claim to land, etc.
Kua roa rawa tōku kore nei e hoki mai ki tōku marae, nā reira, kua āhua mātaotao taku ahi i te roa o tōku ngarohanga atu (Rewi 2005:58). / It had been too long since I had returned to my marae and so my fire had become somewhat cold because of my absence.
3. (modifier) cool, cold.
He kāinga a Rotorua nō ngā mea whakamīharo: ngā wai koropupū, ngā puia, ngā puna mātaotao, me ngā wai ratarata (TTT 1/7/1928:811). / Rotorua is a place of amazing things: boiling water, geysers, cool springs with clear water.
4. (noun) cold.
Ka pātukituki au i te whatitoka. He wahine nāna i huaki mai, ka titiro mai ki a au e tū ana, e mate ana, e hūwiniwini ana, e ākina ana e te marangai; hūkeke noa ana aku niho, ko tōku tinana katoa matangurunguru ana i te mātaotao (TWMNT 20/4/1875:87). / I knocked on the doorway. It was a woman that opened it and she looked at me standing there in trouble, chilled to the bone, lashed by the rain with my teeth chattering and my whole body numb from the cold.
taputapu kē
1. (verb) neat, choice, cool, excellent, terrific, great, fantastic - a colloquialism complimenting the listener(s) on something they have done or achieved.
Synonyms: tōrire, pūhangaiti, tōingo, tau
2. (modifier) dim, dull, stupid.
3. (modifier) airy, cool.
He rūma māhorahora, he rūma pongipongi tōna. / She had a spacious, airy room.
ahi mātaotao
1. (noun) cooling fires of occupation - a term used where the customary title to land may be lost through lack of occupation over two to three generations.
Ki te whakarērea te whenua ka mātao te ahi, ka ngaro ngā tika ki te whenua. Hei te tīmatanga ka iti te ahi, kīia ai he ahi tere. Ka tae ana ki te wā ka weto te ahi, ko te ahi mātaotao tērā (Te Ara 2013). / The legitimacy of any claim diminished over time if the land was abandoned and the fire allowed to die out. Initially, the right started to wane and became ahi tere (unstable fire). Eventually the fire was extinguished which was ahi mātaotao (cold fire).
tū ngā pihi
1. become angry, raise the heckles, get one's dander up, lose one's cool - an idiom.
I te wā i puta ai ngā kōrero mō te whakamātautau, ka tū ko ngā ihu o ētahi, ka tū ko ngā pihi o ētahi atu, ā , tata tonu ētahi ka pōkai anō i ō rātou tueke, ka takahi i te huarahi (HM 4/1996:3). / At the time that the discussions about the test were raised, some put their noses in the air, others became angry and some were on the verge of packing their bags and heading for the road.
ngutu kākāriki
1. (noun) Prince of Wales Feathers, crape fern, Leptopteris superba - native tufted ground fern, often with a short woody trunk. Fronds tapered equally at both ends, very finely divided. Fluffy to touch. Grows best in cool, wet forest. Frond tapers at both ends.
See also heruheru
Synonyms: maikukuroa, pūniu, tētē kura, tētēkura, ngutungutu kiwi, pūnui, tētē, heruheru
ngutungutu kiwi
1. (noun) Prince of Wales Feathers, crape fern, Leptopteris superba - native tufted ground fern, often with a short woody trunk. Fronds tapered equally at both ends, very finely divided. Fluffy to touch. Grows best in cool, wet forest. Frond tapers at both ends.
See also heruheru
Synonyms: maikukuroa, ngutu kākāriki, pūniu, tētē kura, tētēkura, pūnui, tētē, heruheru
rātāhuihui
1. (noun) sunfish, Mola ramsayi - a bluish-grey to to brown fish with a deep, circular, strongly compressed body, a large rounded head, small eyes and mouth. Dorsal fin short-based and tall, placed at the rear of the body opposite a similar anal fin. Occurs in subtropical to cool temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere from the surface to 600 m.
