tāpara
1. (loan) (verb) (-hia,-ngia,-tia) to double.
I roto i ngā tau e rima kua tāparatia ngā tāngata o te Hāhi i te maha o ngā mea hou kua huri mai ki te whakapono Karaitiana (TTT 1/5/1927:579). / In five years membership of the Church has doubled because many new ones have converted to the Christian faith.
2. (loan) (stative) be doubled.
Ko te nui o te Emepaea me te tokomaha o ngā tāngata kua tāpara (TP 11/1908:9). / The size of the Empire and the number of people has doubled.
3. (loan) (modifier) double, doubled.
Kāore ia i pīrangi ki te tohutō, engari e ai ki tāna, he mea pai atu te whakamahi i te tohu oro tāpara, takitoru rānei (TTR 2000:11). / He did not like the macron, preferring to use the double or triple vowel.
pūrua
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to do a second time, repeat, double up, duplicate, confirm, reduplicate, copy.
Nā Gottfried Lindauer i whakairo tōna āhua, engari he mea tuhi pūrua kē pea mai i tētehi whakaahua (TTR 1994:122). / He is depicted in a portrait by Gottfried Lindauer, but it was probably copied from a photograph.
2. (modifier) by twos, in pairs, two by two.
3. (noun) pair, doubling, doubling up, repetition.
Engari, koirā pea tētahi huarahi mō ngā mea e ako ana i te reo Māori, arā, ko te pūrua i ngā oropuare (HM 1/1993). / But perhaps that is a way for the ones learning Māori, that is doubling the vowels.
Synonyms: takirua, tōpū, tāruatanga, tukurua, tuaruatanga, tokorua, tāruarua, huirua, pea
4. (noun) junction (of streams and rivers), confluence.
Ko Taumata‑ō-hē pā i te pūrua o ngā awa o Mangatahi, o Maraekākaho me Ngaruroro i Heretaunga (TTR 1994:135). / Taumata-ō-hē pā is at the confluence of the Mangatahi Stream, Maraekākaho and the Ngaruroro River in Hawke's Bay.
5. (noun) power of two, squared (maths).
pirirua
1. (modifier) double, doubles.
I te tau 1910 ko ia te tautakitaki i ngā whakataetae tēnehi Māori, ā, ko rāua ko te minita rā, ko T. H. Kātene, i toa i te whakataetae pirirua tāne. Mō te taha ki te whakataetae pirirua tāne-wāhine i toa rāua ko Mere Houkāmau Stainton (TTR 1996:256). / In 1910 he won the Māori singles tennis championship, and he and the Reverend T. H. Katene won the doubles championship. He and Mere Houkāmau Stainton won the mixed doubles championship.
2. (modifier) two-edged, double-edged, double-pointed.
Kātahi te tangata i uru atu nei, ka tango ake i tōna pū hurihuri i roto i tōna pākete, ka mau i tōna ringa katau, ka tangohia ake hoki tōna oka matarua ka puritia e tōna mauī, kātahi ka haere atu ki te taha o te Timuaki ka tū i muri o te tūru, kātahi ka pūhia atu i muri o te māhunga o te Timuaki (TPH 16/9/1901:8). / Then the man that had entered took out his revolver that was in his pocket, grasping it in his right hand, and took out his double edged knife and held it in his left hand. Then he went to the side of the President and stood behind the chair. Then he shot the President in the back of the head.
2. (modifier) double, paired, doubled, coupled, in pairs.
E tere papae ana aku waka taurua ki waho o tāhuna (M 2006:216). / My double canoes are drifting sideways out beyond the sandbank.
3. (noun) double canoe.
Nā, ka rūnanga rātou kia pēwhea rānei e riro mai ai tētahi tohunga mō tō rātou taurua, ā, ka mutu, ka tīkina atu anō a Ngātoroirangi (TMT 2/9/1861:10). / So they discussed how they could obtain a tohunga for their double canoe, and in the end they went and got Ngātoroirangi.
4. (noun) biennial.
Arā anō ētahi tipu ka ora mō te rua tau. Ka kīia he taurua (RP 2009:403). / There are some other plants that live for two years. They're called biennials.
5. (noun) even number.
E taea ana tētahi taurua te whakawehe pū ki te 2, kāore he toenga. Ko te mati whakamutunga o tētahi taurua, ko te 2, te 4, te 6, te 8, te 0 rānei. He mutunga-kore te huinga taurua (TRP 2010:282). / An even number is able to be divided exactly by 2 with no remainder. The last digit of an even number is always 2, 4, 6, 8, or 0. The set of even numbers is infinite (TRP 2010:282).
2. (verb) to lie in a heap.
Ka pū te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi (W 1971:300). / When the worn-out net lies in a heap the new net goes fishing.
Synonyms: kāuki, kāike, pūhangaiti, kāika, tihi, putu, whakaputu, pūkei, pūranga, haupū, pūkai, haipū, pīhangaiti, tāwhetawheta, tāwheta
3. (modifier) double, twice.
Tae rawa atu ahau ki Manaia kua hihinga kē ngā tāngata i taua taru; hokotahi mā rua ngā tāngata i ngaro rawa atu i taua mate, i te karawaka, ā, tokorima pū ngā tāngata i rokohanga atu e takoto ana (TPM 2/2/1863:4). / When I finally reached Manaia people had already been smitten by that disease; twelve people were dead from that illness, typhus fever, and I came upon ten people lying there.
4. (noun) bunch, bundle, clump, tuft, anything growing in a bunch, skilled person, wise person.
Ka tango ki te pū wīwī, ka rere iho taua wahine nei ki roto ki te kōruarua, ākina iho hoki taua pū wīwī nei (NM 1928:9). / The woman removed the clump of rushes and fled down into the hole and replaced the clump of rushes.
5. (noun) heap, stack.
Ka titiro hoki ki te whata o te aruhe, o te mātaitai, ki te pū o te kupenga (NM 1928:68). / And he looked at the platform, on which there was fern root and seafood, and at the heap of fishing net.
6. (noun) exponent, indice, power.
Hei tohu te pū i te whakareatanga tāruarua o te tētahi tau. Ka whakanōhia te pū ki te koko whakarunga i te taha matau o te tau, ā, ko tāna, he tohu i te maha o taua tau e whakareatia ana (TRP 2010:208). / The exponent/indice/power is a symbol for the repeated multiplication of a number. The power is shown at the top right hand corner of the number, and indicates how many of that number are being multiplied together.
Synonyms: kōmārohi, kaha, tino rangatiratanga, marohi, mārohirohi, mana, maru, awe, hiko, ihi, awenga, mana whakahaere
2. (noun) four (people), quartet, doubles (tennis, etc.).
I ui ia ki tētahi o ōna hoa mehemea ia i kite i te tokowhā ka mea mai tērā, āe, i kite ia (TTT 1/8/1930:2114). / He asked one of his companions if he had seen the four people and he said that, yes, he had seen them.
3. (noun) four of a kind (cards) - a poker hand that contains all four cards of one rank and any other (unmatched) card, with higher-ranking cards defeating lower-ranking ones.
2. (adjective) be twilled - in weaving mats, kete, etc. so that the strips in one direction are passed over two of the transverse strips in such a way as to produce a diagonal pattern.
3. (modifier) twofold, of double thickness, duet.
I tētehi kōnohete a Ana Hato i roto i te whare nui tawhito i Tūnohopū i Ōhinemutu, e waiata tōrua ana rāua ko tōna whanaunga, ko Deane Waretini (TTR 1998:62). / At a concert in the old Tūnohopū meeting house, Ōhinemutu, Ana Hato sang duets with her relation, Deane Waretini.
tuarua
1. (verb) (-tia) to repeat, double up.
Ka tuaruatia anō e ia tana tohe kia maha atu ngā mema Māori i te Pāremata (TTR 1994:122). / He also repeated his argument that the number of Māori members in Parliament should be increased.
See also tua-
2. (modifier) deputy, second-in-command, assistant, vice- - used following a noun.
See also tua-
hourua
1. (noun) double canoe.
I reira ka kite atu matou i te waka hourua rā a Te Aurere (TWK 59:1). / There we saw the double canoe, Te Aurere.
See also waka hourua
huirua
1. (modifier) double, two at once.
Tau rawa ake te puehu, e tīraha ana te ika huirua o Maungapōhatu. Ko Te Māipi Te Whiu tētahi, ko Toko tētahi (TTR 1996:133). / When the fighting was over, two people of Maungapōhatu lay dead. Te Māipi Te Whiu was one and the other was Toko.
See also ika huirua
2. (noun) pair, twosome.
Ko te waiata tawhito te tino tauranga o tēnei huirua (HJ 2015:83). / Ancient songs are the main source of this pair.
karangarua
1. (noun) someone related through two different lines, standing in a double relationship.
E kī ana taku karangarua, a Kemureti, e toru tekau mā waru ngā tāngata i runga, he tāne anake (HP 1991:8). / My relation, Kemureti, says that thirty-eight people were on it, only men.
See also karanga rua
