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. (noun) cloak decorated with tufts of dyed fibre resembling pompoms.
2. (noun) frame.
Hangaia he taitapa mō tō peita, kia pai ai te whakairi ki te pakitara (RTA 2014:159). / Make a frame for your painting so that it hangs well on the wall.
3. (noun) wing (rugby).
He topatahi, toparua, topa pū, taitapa ngā tūranga tākaro o Mōnita (TTR 2000:54). / Mōnita's playing positions were at first five-eighth, second five-eighth, centre and wing.
2. (noun) bar (music).
2. (noun) margin, boundary, perimeter, border, edge.
He taro tēnā, he whakahau paenga nō te kūmara (W 1971:39). / That is taro, a shelter around the edge of the kūmara patch.
Synonyms: āwhiotanga
3. (noun) circumference, perimeter (maths).
Ko te paenga te tawhiti huri noa i tētahi āhua ahu-2, ko te tapeke rānei o ngā tapa katoa (TRP 2010:187). / The circumference/perimeter is the length of the border around a two-dimensional shape, or the sum of all of its sides (TRP 2010:187).
2. (noun) fontanelle.
irirangi
1. (verb) to be restless, unsettled, agitated, uneasy, edgy, on edge.
2. (verb) to sound eerie - see explanation below.
I te waiatatanga i te waiata nei, ka irirangi ngā reo o ngā kaihāpai i te waiata. I te pērātanga ka mōhiotia he tohu aituā (NIT 1995:355). / When this song was sung the voices of the accompanying singers sounded with the particular tone called 'irirangi', which was considered to be a bad omen (NIT 1995:354).
3. spirit voice - an eerie, high pitched off key note, or harmonic, sometimes heard near the ceiling of the meeting house above people singing. It was sometimes regarded as a bad omen and a portent of death.
Mehemea ka waiata tātou ki roto i te whare, ā, ka rangona te waha e waiata ana i waho, he waha wairua, he irirangi tēnā (W 1971:80). / If we sing inside the house and a voice is heard singing outside, which is a spirit voice, that is 'irirangi'.
4. (noun) radio wave.
Mehemea ka waiata tātou ki roto i te whare, ā ka rangona te waha e waiata ana i waho, he waha wairua, he irirangi tēnā (W 1971:80). / If we sing inside the house and the voice is heard outside that is a spirit voice.
See also reo irirangi
kahararo
1. (noun) rope on the bottom edge of a kaharoa (seine net).
Ka mārō te kupenga, ka takahia te kahararo. Ki te nui rawa ngā ika, ka hāpaia anō te kahararo ka tukuna ētehi o ngā ika, kei pakaru hoki te kupenga, kia hua tonu ai hoki te ika. Ka rite te nui o ngā ika, ka kau ngā tāngata tui haere i te kahararo ki te kaharunga (NIT 1995:77). / The net was stretched out and the bottom edge was held down by treading on it. If there were too many fish, the bottom edge was lifted up and some of the fish were released, lest the net break, and so that the fish would continue to be plentiful. When the amount of fish was appropriate, the people swam along tying the bottom edge to the top net edge.
tarapakihiwi
1. (noun) shoulder, outer edge of the shoulder.
Ka tukua e Taharākau ōna tarahau, ka herea tētahi ki tōna tarapakihiwi katau, tētahi ki tōna taha mauī (JPS 1913:62). / Taharākau took off his tarahau (rough cloaks of strips of kiekie leaves), and tied one over his right shoulder and the other over his left side.
Synonyms: pakihiwi, hāpai, pokohiwi, pokihiwi, pokowhiwhi
pātū
2. (noun) upper edge of a seine net or sail.
Kua pae tēnei te kupenga o ngā kaumātua ki uta, i kukume ai i roto i ngā tau maha ka taha ki muri. Mate atu he rārangi kaumātua, tū ake he rārangi kaumātua, pupuri tonu i te taura whakamārō o te tahatū o te kupenga me te karihi (TPH 15/4/1901:1). / This fishing net of the elders that has reached the shore was dragged along in the many years that have passed. Ranks of elders have died and others have replaced them and they have continued to hold onto the stretched rope of the upper edge of the net and the sinker.
Synonyms: kahatū
2. (verb) (-tia) to crunch.
E tama mā ē, karihitia mai e koe ki te wai o te niho (M 2006:462). / O sons all, crunch all and with your teeth moistened (M2006:463).
3. (modifier) nuclear.
I te tau 1984 ka motu te herenga ki ANZUS, i te kore whakaae o Aotearoa kia tau ngā kaipuke pūngao karihi (Te Ara 2015). / In 1984 the ties to ANZUS were severed because New Zealand refused to allow nuclear-armed ships to come.
4. (noun) sinkers attached to the lower edge of a drag net.
I mōhio tonu ia ki te takahanga o te kaharunga o te kupenga ki raro ki ngā waewae, ka puritia ko te kahararo o te kupenga i mau ai ngā karihi, arā, ngā kōhatu pēhi mō te kupenga (JPS 1893:220). / He understood how to step upon the upper rope of the fishing net, and hold the lower rope to which the sinkers were fastened. that is the stones weighing down the net.
5. (noun) kernel, stone (of a fruit).
6. (noun) nucleus (of a cell or atom).
Ko te karihi te wāhanga whakahaere i te mahi a te pūtau (RP 2009:243). / The nucleus is the part of the cell which controls its function (RP 2009:243).
2. (noun) rim, lip, edge, brim.
Kaua e whakakīia tō karaehe kia tae rawa te inu ki te niao, kei puhake (HJ 2015:48). / Don't fill your glass right to the brim, in case it overflows.
3. (noun) crown.
I hangā anō e ia he niao kōura mō taua mea a tawhio noa (PT Ekoruhe 37:26). / Also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
mōniania
1. (verb) to set on edge.
I aua rā ka mutu tā rātou kī, Kua kai ngā mātua i ngā karepe kaiota, ā mōniania ana ngā niho o ngā tamariki (PT Heremaia 31:29). / In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Synonyms: māniania
2. (modifier) jumpy, jittery, nervous, fearful.
He wairua mōniania tōna, he tautauā. / He has a nervous nature, he's a scaredy-cat.
3. (noun) fear, apprehension, concern.
Ko te mōniania nui o te ngākau, ka noho koinei te reo ka whāngaia atu ki ngā tamariki (TTTT 2006:14). / My biggest concern is that this will be the language fed to children.
