delicious - Te Aka Māori Dictionary

kakato

1. (verb) to be pleasant (of taste), appetizing, delicious, flavoursome, palatable, scrumptious.

I kakato te kōura (Ng 1993:88). / The crayfish was scrumptious.

Synonyms: apuapu, reka, hāhā, matareka, hūmārika, rēhia, rawe, rekareka, hāneanea, ngohengohe, pai, manini, āhuareka, ātaahua, hūmārie, āhumehume, pārekareka, hūmārire, harakoa, ngāwari, purotu

hāhā

1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) catch the breath, breathe with difficulty, gasp.

Ka hāhā te manawa i te pāria anō o tana mate huangō (PK 2008:63). / She had difficulty breathing with the onset again of her asthma.

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2. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to warn off (by shouting).

Ka hāhāngia mai e te katoa, "Kaua koe e haere atu ki reira, ka tapu koe i te nohoanga o Tangotango." (NM 1928:43) / He was warned off by everybody, "Don't go there or you will become tapu from the place where Tangotango sits."

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3. (stative) be savoury, luscious, tasty, appetizing, delicious, scrumptious.

Te hāhā mārika o ngā kai (HM 4/1994:3). / How delicious the food was.

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Synonyms: wainene, hūnene, mōkarakara, kakato

4. (stative) be leaning, inclined, tilted, slanting, sloping.

Kia hāhā ngā tara o te whare (W 1971:29). / The walls of the house should be slanting.

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Synonyms: konana, tāwharara

5. (modifier) desolate, deserted, bleak, isolated.

He harapaki hāhā te wāhi i rohea mō taua urupā nei (TTR 1990:316). / The place marked off for that cemetery was a bleak hillside.

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whakawaiwai

1. (modifier) mouth-watering, delectable, delicious, tasty.

I te tau o te kūmara, whakapapatia atu ki runga i ngā pōhatu ngā kūmara pakupaku i te hukenga o te hāngi. I te maonga, kua whakamaroketia hai kao, ā, kātahi hoki te kai reka, whakawaiwai ko tēnei ko te kao (TTR 1998:206). / In the kūmara season, small kūmara were placed on the rocks in the hāngī after the food had been removed. When cooked they were dried producing kao, and how sweet and mouth-watering this kao was.

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Synonyms: mōwaiwai