2. (noun) cramp.
2. (noun) cramp.
Ko te kore tote i roto i te toto, nā te wherū rānei o te uaua, nā te mātao rānei ētahi o ngā pūtake o te kohukohu o ngā waewae. / Cramp in the legs is caused by the lack of salt in the blood, by muscle fatigue or the cold.
2. (adjective) be sheltered (from the wind), protected.
Synonyms: whakaruruhau, pāruru, ruru, marumaru, maru
3. (noun) cramp.
Ko te kokohu te tauroa o te kukutinga o tētahi uaua, me te mamae anō hoki. I ētahi wā, ka takea mai te kokohu i te iti o te konupūmā (Ca), o te tote rānei o roto i te toto, nā te wherū rānei o te uaua, nā te mātao rānei (RP 2009:260). / Cramp is the prolonged and painful contraction of a muscle. Cramp can be caused by a low level of calcium (Ca) or salt in the blood, by muscle fatigue, or by cold (RP 2009:260).
hakoko
1. (verb) to be bent, concave, curved, twisted.
Ka hakoko te hihi aho, e whakawhiti ana mai i te hau takiwā ki te wai. Ka hakoko te hihi aho nā te mea he pōturi ake te ngaru aho i roto i te wai, tēnā i te hau takiwā (RP 2009:183). / A ray of light bends when travelling from air into water. It bends because the light wave travels slower in water than it does in air.
2. (modifier) be bent, concave, curved, twisted.
Me pereti hakoko, kia kore ai e maringi te wairanu (PK 2008:68). / It should be a curved plate so that the gravy doesn't spill.
3. (noun) cramp.
4. (noun) adult muttonbird, adult sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus, - a grey-faced petrel with a long slender bill hooked at the tip and silvery-grey flash on the underwings, which nests in underground burrows.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 14-16;)
2. (verb) to crouch, sit huddled up.
Ka kōpipiri ngā tāhae i roto i te ururua kei kitea e ngā pirihimana. / The thieves crouched in the undergrowth lest they be found by the police.
3. (modifier) crowded close together, confined, cramped, crowded.
E rua, e toru tau pea i muri mai ka whakarērea e ia te kura, i te mea he wāhi kōpipiri rawa ki a ia (TTR 1994:10). / About two or three years later he left school because it was a place that was too confined for him.
4. (modifier) timid, faint-hearted, diffident.
He tamaiti kōpipiri ia, he mataku nōna kei rīria e ngā kaiako. / He was a timid child, because he was afraid of being reprimanded by the teachers.
5. (noun) cramped conditions.
Kīhai ā rāua tamariki i rata kia noho ki waenganui i a rāua, nā tā rātou kōpipiri, pōuri (Te Ara 2016). / Their children did not like living between them because of their cramped, dark conditions.
uhu
1. (verb) to be benumbed, numbed.
Kua tino uhu ō rātou waewae i te nui o te makariri (W 1971:466). / Their feet were quite numb from the intense cold.
Synonyms: kōpā
2. (noun) cramp, stiffness.
Ka mate wahine ana ka mamae tana puku i te uhu (PK 2008:1029). / When she has her period she has pain in her stomach from cramp.
2. (modifier) having lateral projections.
Ka toro atu ngā pakiaka kaurapa ki ngā taha o te tipu (RP 2009:403). / The lateral roots extend out to the sides of the plant.
3. (noun) stock (of a gun).
I tangohia te pū a Te Rangihau e Te Pōtangaroa, ā, tāia iho ki te whenua, ka whati te kaurapa o te pū, ka rere a Te Pōtangaroa i te pari, ā, ka ora (JPS 1900:52). / Te Rangihau's gun was seized by Te Pōtangaroa, who dashed it on the ground and broke the stock of gun, and then leapt over a cliff and survived.
4. (noun) cramp (of legs only).
kōpiripiri
1. (noun) (-a) to be crowded close together, confined, cramped, crowded, squashed.
I kōpiripiria ngā tamariki ki te rūma kotahi (Ng 1993:74). / The children were squashed into one room.
See also kōpipiri
kōpā
1. (verb) to be cramped, restricted in size, crowded, overcrowded, packed.
Ka noho kōpā tonu ngā whare, ahakoa te whakatūtū haeretanga o ngā whare (Te Ara 2016). / The houses continued to be overcrowded, despite the continuing erection of more houses.
Synonyms: mātoru, whāiti, hīnohinohi
2. (verb) to be numbed, stiff, congealed, set, fraught.
Taotū ana te pakihiwi o Eruera, ā, kōpā ana (TTR 2000:103). / Eruera was wounded in the shoulder and it became numb.
Synonyms: uhu, totoka, rehurehu, tetepe, whakanoho, whakanohonoho, pō, ahuahu, whakamohiki, whakarākei
3. (verb) to be estranged, alienated.
Ka tipu te raruraru nā te mea hoki kāore i whai wāhi atu te iwi; peia ana a Whina ki te tapa o ngā whakahaere o Whakarapa, ka kōpā kē atu hoki tā rātou noho ko ana tēina, tuākana (TTR 2000:38). / Trouble developed because the community had not been involved, so Whina was pushed to the margin of Whakarapa affairs, and she became more estranged from her siblings.
mātengatenga
1. (verb) to be benumbed, cramped, incapacitated, knocked out, concussed.
Engari kei te mātengatenga rawa ia, ina hoki i takoto tonu mō ētahi hēkena, kātahi ka kitea atu e ngōki haere ana ki te ngahere (TP 1/1/1901:8). / But he is knocked out because he just lay there for some seconds and then he was seen crawling into the bush.
