konohi
1. (noun) eye - eastern dialect variation of kanohi.
Ko ngā āhua o taku mate, he ngongoro, he heke te kea, he mate ngā konohi, kua āhua kāpō haere (HP 1991:18). / The symptoms of my illness were snoring, discharge from the ears, and problems with the deteriorating eyesight.
See also kanohi
2. (noun) face - eastern dialect variation of kanohi.
Ko ngā tohutohu hoki ki a mātau mō ngā wā whēnei, kia tere tonu te tāpapa ki raro, kaua te konohi e anga whakarunga, engari me mau tonu ki te whenua (HP 1991:184). / And the instruction we had been given for situations like this was to lie flat down quickly on the ground, face down and not for the face to turn upwards.
See also kanohi
2. (noun) charge, face to face combat.
Ka whakahokia mai ko te āpititū, ka mate i reira he tini ki te tahua (M 2006:414). / You retaliated in face to face combat, and they died there in myriads in a heap for the feast.
2. when facing, at the time of facing.
Kātahi ka anga ngā poti ki te tonga, kei reira ngā wēra e haere mai ana. Nō te anganga o ngā ihu o ngā poti rā ki reira, kātahi ka whakaae atu te ahi rā (TWMNT 18/9/1877:196). / Then the boats faced the south where the whales were coming from. When the bow of those boats faced in that direction, then the fire was used to signal confirmation that that was where the whales were.
anga
1. (verb) to face, move (in a certain direction), facing, pointed at.
Kāore i roa kua tae mai a Mōkena i te kaitiaki tatau i te mataku rā hoki i te waha o te pītara e anga atu ana ki a ia (TKO 6/1915:7). / It wasn't long before Morgan reached the doorman who was intimidated by the barrel of the pistol pointed at him.
2. (verb) to turn to, set about - followed by ki or ka.
Ka whāngainga ki te rau kōrari, nāwai ā, ka hurihia te wira e te ringa tangata, ka anga ka rakuraku ngā tara o taua mira, mea rawa ake, kua puta mai te muka i tua i ngā niho o taua mea (MM.TKM 31/1/1857:10). / It was fed with some flax leaves, and after a time when the wheel was turned by hand, the teeth of the mill began to scrape the flax, and soon the dressed flax was produced by the teeth.
3. (noun) skeleton, shell, husk, hard outer covering, aspect.
Ko te kaupapa o te haere ko te kohi tote, me te kohi anga mātaitai pērā i te tupa (HM 2/2009:10). / The purpose of the trip was to gather salt and sea shells such as the scallop.
Synonyms: angaanga, kota, tīwarawara, kōwhaki, kotakota
4. (noun) structure, framework, organisation.
He tuapa whakakatakata, whakakoakoa tana heri haere i a tātou i roto i ngā kōrero tuku iho ā-waha, i te whanaungatanga me te anga pāpori o tēnā, o tēnā ngare nui o ngā moutere o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa (TTR 1996:15). / It was a witty and light-hearted romp through the oral traditions, ethnology and social organisation of each of the major Pacific Island groups.
Synonyms: whakahaerenga, rōpū, tōpūtanga, whakahaere
2. (verb) to heap, pile up, store.
Ka tohutohutia mai aua tāngata, "E tae ki te wā e whakarae ai te kūmara ki te rua, me patu a Tuakata, kei hoki mai te mauri o te kūmara ki Hawaiki nei." (TTT 1/9/1929:1074). / Those people were instructed, "When it comes the time when the kūmara are stored in the pit, Tuakata should be killed lest the mauri of the kūmara return to Hawaiki."
Synonyms: tōhī, whakaahu, whakaputu, whakatahua, whakapipi, tōhīhī
3. (verb) to stand out, be prominent.
Whakarae tonu au, he maire tū wao, mā te toki e tua (W 1971:320). / I am quite prominent, a maire tree that stands in the forest, which can be felled with an axe.
4. (modifier) prominent, stand out, important.
Ko tōna pāpā ko Te Taonui, he rangatira whakarae nō roto o Te Popoto, ā, nō te iriiringa, i tapaina a Te Taonui pakeke ki a Makoare, te ingoa o te kāwana i Poihākena, arā, a Lachlan Macquarie (TTR 1994:116). / His father was Te Taonui, a prominent chief of Te Popoto, and when he was baptised as an adult Te Taonui was named Makoare, the name of the governor of Sydney, Lachlan Macquarie.
Synonyms: matararahi, koutu, tāpua, koure, whakaea, whakahī, kōhure, hōhō, ahurei, tutū
5. (noun) heap, pile.
Te tomokanga atu o tōna tuahine ki te whata, ka kite atu ia i te whakarae o te aruhe (W 1971:320). / When his sister entered the storehouse she saw the pile of fernroot.
Synonyms: pūkainga, haupū, tōhīanga, purawhetū, kauika, whakapū, whakaputu, kōputu, pūhanga, pūkei, putunga, whakarauika, whakapipi, whārona, pūkai, taipū, whakaputunga
takahikare-moana
1. (noun) New Zealand white-faced storm petrel, Pelagodroma marina - a native petrel with white forehead, eyebrow and underparts. The back and upperwing are brownish-grey.
Synonyms: takahikare
takahikare
1. (noun) New Zealand white-faced storm petrel, Pelagodroma marina - a native petrel with white forehead, eyebrow and underparts. The back and upperwing are brownish-grey.
See also takahikare-moana
Synonyms: takahikare-moana
kanohi kitea
1. (verb) to have a physical presence, be seen, represent.
Kāti rā, nō te tau 1926 i pōtitia ia ki te kaunihera ā-rohe o Te Wairoa, hei kanohi mō te takiwā o Waiau. I aua rā, kāore e kanohi kitea ana te Māori i ēnei momo rōpū (TTR 1998:12). / Well, in 1926 he was elected to the Wairoa County Council to represent the Waiau Riding. In those days Māori were not represented in these types of organisations.
2. (noun) seen face, physical presence - a term to express the importance of meeting people face to face, and to also be a face that is known to and seen within a community and at important gatherings, such as tangihanga.
He tamaiti pai, he kanohi kitea i ngā tangihanga me ngā huihui (EM 2002:60). / He was a good boy, a face seen at tangihanga and gatherings.
3. (noun) raid, incursion - applied to a chief who raids the lands of another tribe. His face is seen where he has no business to be, at least in arms.
2. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
Synonyms: matuku nuia, matuku tai, matuku waitai, tīkāka, mātukutuku, kākatai
2. (noun) shout.
3. (noun) grey-faced petrel, Pterodroma macroptera, northern muttonbird, great-winged petrel - a native seabird with blackish-brown plumage except for a pale grey forehead, sides of the face, chin and throat. Has a stout black bill and black legs and feet.
Ka mutu, ki tā ngā mātauranga whaipara tangata, he hōrapa te noho o te ōi ki Aotearoa i mua i te noho tangata (Te Ara 2011). / What's more, according to archaeologists petrels were widely distributed throughout prehistoric New Zealand.
tūparipari
1. (modifier) precipitous, very steep.
He whenua tūparipari ēnei whenua (TWMNT 21/4/1874:102). / This is precipitous land.
Synonyms: tāhekeheke, kānihinihi, kaninihi, taparere, ninihi, hūkere
2. (adjective) be two-faced, deceitful, hypocritical.
I tētahi tautohetohe i te Whare Pāremata i te tau 1882 mō te Pire Reiti Whenua Māori, ka whiua e ia tana whakapae mō te kāwanatanga, he arero rua, he apu whenua (NZH 2017). / In a debate in Parliament in 1882 on the Native Lands Rating Bill he accused the government of hypocrisy and land-grabbing.
3. (noun) two-faced person, deceitfu lperson, hypocritical person, hypocrite.
Kaua e whakapono ki āna kōrero, he arero rua ia. / Don't believe what she says, she's a hypocrite.
koruru
1. (noun) carved face on the gable of a meeting house, often representing the ancestor after which the house is named.
E rua rawa ngā nekehanga o tēnei whare, ā, nō ngā tau o te tekau tau mai i 1970, ka whakahoungia ngā amo, ngā maihi me te koruru (TTR 1990:377). / This house has been moved twice and in the 1970s the carved frontal features of amo, maihi and koruru were renewed.
aroaro
1. (noun) face, front, before, in the presence of.
Ahakoa kāore i kopaina te auhi, te poreirewa ki te kupu i mua tonu i tō aroaro, mā te aha rā i ēnei kupu iti kua tuhia nei - engari anō tēnei i te kore rawa atu nei! (HM 4/2009:4) / Although the grief and yearning did not disappear with words spoken in your presence, or with these few words that have been written here - this is better than nothing!
