tohu paetahi
1. (noun) undergraduate degree, Bachelor's degree.
I te tau 1896, ka tutuki i a ia tana tohu paetahi ture (LLB). Ko ia te Māori tuatahi i oti i a ia he tohu mātauranga i tētahi whare wānanga i Aotearoa nei (TTR 1996:102). / He completed his LLB in 1896. He was the first Maori to complete a degree at a New Zealand university.
tohu mātauranga
1. (noun) university degree, academic qualification.
I te tau 1896, ka tutuki i a ia tana tohu paetahi ture (LLB). Ko ia te Māori tuatahi i oti i a ia he tohu mātauranga i tētahi whare wānanga i Aotearoa nei (TTR 1996:102). / He completed his LLB in 1896. He was the first Maori to complete a degree at a New Zealand university.
whakapōtae
1. (verb) (-tia) to crown, cap (with a degree), graduate.
Rere ana te whiu a Rātana i a Te Tāite he mea nōna kei te whai kē a Rātana ki te whakapōtae i a ia hei kīngi mō Aotearoa (TTR 1998:204). / Rātana accused Te Tāite of saying that he, Rātana, wanted to crown himself king of New Zealand.
2. (modifier) crowning, graduating, capping.
He rā whakapōtae tēnei ki Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi (Te Ara 2014). / This is a graduation day at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi.
parangetungetu
1. (noun) degraded person, person of low degree, corrupt person.
Mōhio ai koa te mano ki ngā tautauhea, ki ngā parakūkā, ki ngā pōrangi, ki ngā whakaaro-iti, ki ngā parangetungetu, ki ngā ngākau-rahirahi, ki ngā kōpūrua, ki ngā rorirori, ki ngā heahea, ki ngā pōrewarewa (KO 14/4/1883:5). / Many people know cowards, scroungers, the mentally ill, the shallow thinkers, the corrupted, the callous people, the indecisive, the stupid ones, the idiots and the dim-witted.
putu
1. (verb) (-a) to lie in a heap, lie one on top of another, heaped up, piled up, deposit, accrue.
I runga rawa o te awa o Nūhaka, e tata atu ana ki te mātāpuna, te mahi a te kōhatu e putu ana (HP 1991:15). / Right upstream of the Nūhaka river, near its source, there were many stones piled up.
Synonyms: hua, whakapūranga, kōputu, whakatahua, tāwhetawheta, tāwheta, tihi, kāika, pūhangaiti, kāike, kāuki, whakaputu, pūkei, pūranga, haupū, pū, pūkai, haipū, pīhangaiti
2. (verb) (-a) to pour into, swell, increase, multiply.
Ka kī i te manu, ka putua he hinu ki runga hei taupoki i ngā manu (TWK 32:10). / When they're full of birds, oil is poured on top to cover the birds.
Synonyms: rea, whakaroaka
3. (noun) stack, heap, deposit.
I muri i a Ngāti Waimahora ka hoki rā ka wehewehea ngā huahua, ngā taonga kahu māori me ngā kaitaka, e toru ngā putu, kotahi ki ōna hapū ake o roto o Whakarewa pā, ko tētahi tūranga i a Takarangi, ko tētahi tūranga i a Rongoiri (JPS 1927:255). / After Ngāti Waimahora had returned home the preserved birds, garments, and kaitaka cloaks were divided into three heaps, one of which was allotted to his own hapū of Whakarewa pā, another to Takarangi, and the other to Rongoiri.
4. (noun) degree (angle and temperature).
E rua ngā whakamahinga o te putu hei waeine. Tuatahi, he waeine hei whakaatu i te rahi o tētahi koki, o tētahi huringa rānei. E 360° i te huringa kotahi. Tuarua he waeine mō te paemahana. Kia eke te wera o te wai ki te 100°, kua koropupū. Kia heke ki te 0°, kua haupapa (TRP 2010:216). / Degrees are used as a unit of measurement for two things. Firstly, as a unit for measuring angles or rotation. There are 360° in a complete turn. It is also used as a unit for measuring temperature. 100° is boiling point, 0° is when water turns to ice (TRP 2010:216).
5. (noun) shortfin eel, Anguilla australis - a quite large type of eel, dark olive to olive-green in colour, and whitish-grey to silvery ventrally. Widespread in lowland fresh waterways. Usually nocturnal and lives under cover of overhanging rocks and debris. Caught in a hīnaki.
See also matamoe
Synonyms: hao, hikumutu, takotowhenua, tuna hinahina, tuna, tuna heke, matamoe, papakura, aopori
waeine Celsius
1. (noun) degrees Celsius.
E whakaatu ana ngā ine-mahana nei i te waeine Celsius. He tangata a Celsius, nō te whenua o Huitene. Nāna tēnei waeine i hanga i te rautau 1700 (TRP 2010:132). / These thermometers show degrees Celsius. Celsius was a man from Sweden. This measurement was created by him in the 1700s.
2. (noun) outsider, foreigner - this is also a term used for people who are not related to the hapū or whānau members, including those who have married into the kinship group and do not have whakapapa links. Rāwaho were people who were excluded from decision-making processes by whānau or hapū because they had no whakapapa or land interests. Nowadays it would be difficult to be exclusive and to disenfranchise a blood relation of up to three degrees, living away from the tribal home, of entitlements to land and family decision-making processes. People in this situation would still be regarded as rāwaho, but would be able to become ahi kā and have decision-making power by returning to live in the tribal area and by participating in the hapū activities for a significant period.
Kāore hoki he rāwaho i whakaaetia kia uru mai ki tēnei huihuinga (TTT 1/12/1925:334). / And outsiders were not permitted to participate in that meeting.
Synonyms: tauiwi, tarutawhiti
ngutukao
1. (noun) shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus - a large, fast-moving oceanic shark with deep blue back and white underparts. Front dorsal fin large. Up to 5.85 m long. Found throughout the world in temporate and tropical seas and to 49 degrees south in Aotearoa/New Zealand waters from surface to over 550 m depth.
Temara, Pou
1. (personal name) Ngāi Tūhoe. Educated at Huiarau Primary School and Wesley College. senior Lecturer at Te Kawa a Māui at Victoria University of Wellington (1986-2002) where he gained his MA degree. Currently Professor at Te Pua Wānanga Ki Te Ao of The University of Waikato. Renowned whaikōrero, haka and mōteatea expert who frequently performs kawanga whare and is an expert on tikanga. Teacher for Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo.
