tuawahine
1. (personal noun) heroine, principal female character, female celebrity, female idol - a familiar name for the main character or actor of a story, etc. and usually used as a proper name.
Ānō te rangi o te kōauau a Tūtānekai, me he rū nā anō e ueue ana i a tuawahine kia haere atu ki te kare ā-roto a tōna ngākau (NM 1928:110). / It was as if the tune of Tūtānekai's flute was an earthquake shaking our heroine to go to the love of her heart.
tungāne
1. (noun) brother (of a female), male cousin (of a female).
Nā tēnei ahau tō koutou tungāne, te tangata hoki nāna i hapahapai ō koutou ingoa whakahuahua ki ngā marae, tae noa ki roto ki te Pāremata o Te Kotahitanga (TJ 12/10/1899:12). / I, your brother and cousin, am the person who repeatedly raised your names on the marae, even in the Te Kotahitanga Movement's parliament.
kōpara
1. (noun) bellbird (especially the female bellbird), Anthornis melanura - an olive-green songbird with a short curved bill and dark bluish-black wings known for its loud, clear, liquid songs. Female has a duller colour and a white stripe below the eye.
See also korimako
tītapu
1. (noun) bellbird (especially the female bellbird), Anthornis melanura - an olive-green songbird with a short curved bill and dark bluish-black wings known for its loud, clear, liquid songs. Female has a duller colour and a white stripe below the eye.
Rapua he tikanga e hoki mai ai ki te tuawhenua tēnei mānu rangatira te tītapu kia kōrihirihi tahi rāua ko tā tāua nūpepa (KO 1/4/1882:3). / Seek out a plan whereby this magnificent bird, the bellbird, will return to the mainland to sing together with our newspaper.
See also korimako
matakiore
1. (noun) female stitchbird, Notiomystis cincta - a rare endemic forest bird. The female is grayish brown with a white wingbar.
Synonyms: kōhihi, kōtihe, kōtihe wera, kōtihetihe, mōtihetihe, tiora, tihe, tioro, hihi
kouwha
1. (noun) female (of animals and trees).
See also uwha
2. (noun) female tūī, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae - especially in early summer. A songbird that imitates other birds' calls and has glossy-black plumage and two white tufts at the throat. The female has a smaller white tuft and less white feathering on the collar than the male.
tarapō
1. (noun) kākāpō, ground parrot, Strigops habroptilus - rare, large, green endemic parrot that is nocturnal and flightless. Now found only on islands off Stewart Island.
See also kākāpō
Synonyms: tātarapō, tarepō, kākātarapō
2. (noun) female of North Island and South Island robin, Petroica longipes, Petroica australis - a tame, inquisitive, small bird of the bush with dark slate-grey feathers and long thin legs. Female has smaller pale area on belly.
kōrurerure
1. (noun) female rifleman, Acanthisitta chloris - Aotearoa/New Zealand's smallest bird, distinguished by its rounded wings, a very short stumpy tail and a fine, slightly upturned bill. The female is streaked dark and light brown with whitish underparts. Found in native forests and scrub.
See also tītitipounamu
Synonyms: toirua, piripiri, kotikotipa, kōtipatipa, kōtitititi, mōutuutu, muhumuhu, titipounamu, tokepiripiri, kikimutu, momotawai, tāpahipare, pipiriki, pihipihi, tītitipounamu, hōutuutu, momoutu, kōhurehure
2. (noun) women, females, ladies, wives – plural form of wahine.
Ko tana pūtake i tohe ai ia, he tokomaha ngā wāhine e whiwhi whenua ana, ko rātou anō kei te whakahaere, he kore tungāne tonu nō rātou, he mōhio ake rānei nō rātou i ngā tāne (TTR 1994:54). / The basis of her argument was that many women owned land and they themselves administered it because they had no male relatives, or because they were more competent than the men.
See also wahine
2. (noun) woman, female, lady, wife.
Kua tīmata anō te wahine ki te mau roroa i te panekoti. E tika ana anō, i te mea kua tae kē ngā panekoti o nāianei ki runga ake i ngā turi (TTT 1/9/1929:1064). / Women have again started wearing longer skirts. And that's appropriate because currently skirts are above the knees.
Synonyms: reiri
karawa
1. (noun) female (animal or bird), mother, dam.
Nā tana kaha riri ki tēnei, ka takahiria e te rangatira rā ngā ngutu o te karawa huia kia roa kia tarea ai e ia te whakatika tōna hikumārō ki te taha (Te Ara 2015). / Because he was annoyed with this, the chief curved the beak of the female huia so that it was long enough for her to be able to lift her tail feathers to the side.
2. (noun) grey petrel, Procellaria cinerea - a seabird with a stout bill, dark grey head, ashy grey upperparts and white underparts. The underwings and undertail are dark grey.
autāne
1. (noun) brother-in-law (of a female).
Nā Te Tāite i whakaatu ki a au nā tōna tipuna nā Parekahurangi te waiata nei, he tangi nāna ki te tira o ōna tungāne, o ōna autāne, e hoki ana mai i Taupō ki Kapiti, ki Manawatū (M 2007:240). / It was Te Tāite who told me that his ancestor Parekahurangi composed this song, a lament by her for a travelling party of her male siblings and her brothers-in-law who were returning from Taupō to Kapiti and Manawatū.
