2. (loan) (noun) doctor.
Nā te kaha o ngā tākuta Māori, o W. Maihi, ka hoki mai tōna wairua ora (TW 12/2/1875:8). / It was by the strength of the Māori doctors, and W. Marsh, that her living spirit returned.
3. (loan) (personal noun) Doctor - title for a doctor.
Hangaia ana e ia he whare haumanu ki te taha anō o te toa, kia tarea e ngā tākuta me ngā nēhi o te kaupapa whakaora a Tākuta G.M. Smith o Te Hokianga, ngā tūroro nei te tirotiro (TTR 2000:39). / She built a clinic alongside the store, where patients could be seen by doctors and nurses as part of Doctor G.M. Smith's Hokianga health service (DNZB 2000:113).
rata
1. (noun) doctor.
Heoi, ka meatia e ngā rata he paraehe mō tōna māhunga (HP 1991:8). / And so the doctors made headgear for his head.
See also tākuta
tohu tākuta
1. (loan) (noun) doctorate.
Ko te hunga tino hau kē nei ō rātau rongo, ko te wahine purei tēnehi rā, ko Ruia Morrison, ko ngā kaitākaro korowha nei, ko Walter Godfrey rāua ko Sherril Chapman, ko te toa tākaro poikōpiko, ko Neti Davis, ko te kaipūkenga ko Ralph Hōtere, ko te kaiwaiata, ko Kiri Te Kanawa, tae atu ki a Patariki (Pat) Hōhepa, i riro mai ai i a ia tana tohu tākuta (PhD) mō te mātauranga wetereo i te Hononga o Amerika (TTR 2000:236). / Most notable among these were the tennis player Ruia Morrison, golfers Walter Godfrey and Sherril Chapman, table tennis champion Neti Davis, artist Ralph Hōtere, singer Kiri Te Kanawa, and Pat Hōhepa, who was to achieve his PhD in linguistics in the United States.
2. (modifier) used frequently.
Ka huihui atu ki te wāhi mutunga e ngaro i te tai, ki te ngaro taua wāhi i te moana ka rere ki ngā wāhi onepū muremure, kāore he otaota, kāore he aha, ka noho i reira pēhea te nunui o te kāhui, he tatari kia wātea ngā tāhuna i te tai (TP 1/11/1901:1). / They gather at the last place that disappears under the tide, and when that part disappears under the tide they fly to the beaches they frequent where there is no vegetation, nothing at all and stay there no matter how large the flock is, waiting until the sand bank re-emerges from the sea.
3. (noun) tiger beetle lava, penny doctor, butcher boy, Cicindela tuberculata, Neocicindela tuberculata - an endemic tiger beetle to Aotearoa/New Zealand. Adults are ground predators and larvae may live for several years in a hole in the ground, and grab and eat passing insects.
tākutatanga
1. (loan) (noun) doctoring skill, medical practice.
Me kawe mai tō tākutatanga, ō koutou tākutatanga rānei, ki ngā marae katoa o ō tātou motu ki te kawe i ā koutou rongoā hei whakakorenga atu i ngā mana me ngā tapu o ō tātou tūpuna (TJ 6/6/1899:6). / You should take your doctoring skills to all the marae of the country to carry your medicines to dispel the mana and tapu of our ancestors.
2. (loan) (noun) doctor’s position.
Kua nohoia e rātou ngā nohoanga teitei o te iwi Pākehā, arā, nohoanga kaiwhakawā, pirihimanatanga, hōiatanga, meihatanga, kāpene hōia, kāpene kaipuke, parakimete, rōiatanga, tākutatanga, minita karakia, me ērā atu mahi (TP 5/1906:11). / They also have occupied the high offices of the Pākehā people, such as positions of judges, policemen, soldiers, majors, army captains, captains of ships, blacksmiths, lawyers, doctors, parsons, and other occupations.
Rangi Hīroa, Te
1. (personal name) Sir Peter Henry Buck (1877?-1951) Ngāti Mutunga; doctor, military leader, administrator, politician, anthropologist, researcher and Bishop Museum director (Honolulu). First Māori to graduate from the University of Otago and first Māori doctor to graduate from a New Zealand university.
Atairangikaahu, Te Arikinui Dame Te
1. (personal name) ONZ, DBE (1931-2006) Ngāti Mahuta; leader of the Tainui tribes and the Kīngitanga, she succeeded her father, Korokī, when he died in 1966. Before being anointed as queen, she was known as Piki Mahuta and Piki Paki when she married Whatumoana Paki. Made the first Māori Dame in 1970 and was awarded the Order of New Zealand in 1987. Awarded an honorary doctorate from The University of Waikato in 1973 and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Victoria University of Wellington in 1999.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 26-28, 31-33; Te Kōhure Video Tapes (Ed. 1): ;)
2. (loan) (personal name) Shortland - Edward Shortland (1812?-1893), doctor, scholar, linguist and administrator who wrote on Māori myth and tradition.
I te torotoronga atu o Te Hōtereni i Moeraki i 1844, ka whakamīharo a ia ki te mōhio o Tiramōrehu ki ngā kōrero tīpuna tuku iho a tōna iwi (TTR 1990:350). / When Mr Shortland first met Tiramōrehu, he was amazed at how well versed Tiramōrehu was on the history and customs of his people.
Penfold, Merimeri
1. (personal name) CNZOM (1924- 2014) Ngāti Kurī. Lecturer in Māori language at Auckland University for more than 30 years from which she has received an honorary Doctorate. She was a member of the Māori Education Foundation, the University of Auckland Marae Establishment Committee and an executive member of the Broadcasting Commission from 1989 to 1991. Dr Penfold was also a co-member of the editorial team that worked on the seventh edition of Williams Dictionary of the Maori Language. She has translated nine of Shakespeare's sonnets, Ngā Waiata Aroha a Hekepia. She was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori in 2001.
Waikerepuru, Te Huirangi Eruera
1. (personal name) Ngāti Ruanui, Tāngahoe; Orator, educator and activist for Māori language revival and indigenous rights. Following a career as a building tradesman, moved into trade training and became prominent in adult education in Māori language revitalisation. Having developed language instruction programmes turned his attention to broadcasting recognising its value in promoting Māori language use. Led the case through to the Privy Council that the NZ Government should recognise and protect Māori language as a 'taonga under the principle of the Treaty of Waitangi' in the allocation of New Zealand's broadcasting assets. Following this successful challenge Huirangi returned to Taranaki where he has become the single most dominant figure in guiding the regeneration of Taranaki's distinct regional dialect. Received an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Waikato in 1995 for his achievement in both tertiary education and Māori language communities.
Mahuika, Apirana Tuahae Kaukapakapa
1. (personal name) (1934-2015) Ngāti Porou; leader, orator, expert in Māori language and customs. Ordained as a minister in the Anglican Church in 1964. Gained a BA from the University of Auckland, and an MA from Sydney. Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Waikato in 2004. Chairman of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Porou and oversaw the vesting of the legal title of Hikurangi Maunga and the Ngāti Porou settlement with the Crown. Member of the Council and Te Rōpū Manukura of The University of Waikato.
Mataira, Kāterina Te Heikōkō
1. (personal name) (1932-2011 ) Ngāti Porou; teacher, author of books written in Māori, and co-founder, with Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi, of Te Ātārangi, a method of teaching adults Māori in their communities. Kāterina was a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University and The University of Waikato from which she was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996. Awarded CNZOM in 1998. In 2001 she was awarded Te Tohu Tiketike a Te Waka Toi/Te Waka Toi Exemplary Award and in 2007 the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for her writing in Māori. In 2008 she received the third Pou Aronui Award from the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities for distinguished service to the humanities. Shortly before her death she was to awarded a damehood (DNZM).
Melbourne, Hirini
1. (personal name) (1950-2003) Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu; composer and singer of songs in Māori, Hirini spearheaded the research and revival of the making and playing of traditional Māori musical instruments. Associate Professor at The University of Waikato where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2002.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 162-171; Te Pihinga Study Guide (Ed. 1): 126-127;)
