whaupaku
1. (noun) five-finger, Pseudopanax arboreus - a tree with compound leaves with five to seven 'fingers' and thick, leathery leaves with large teeth. A small, many-branched, round-headed tree with thick, brittle, spreading branches. One of the most common native trees.
Synonyms: whauwhaupaku, whau, tauparapara, houhou, puahou
2. (noun) incantation to begin a speech - the actual tauparapara used are a way that tangata whenua are able to identify a visiting group, as each tribe has tauparapara peculiar to them. Tauparapara are a type of karakia.
Ko wai hoki ka mōhio ki ngā whakamārama me te pūtakenga mai o ngā tauparapara katoa? (HM 4/1998:6). / Who can possibly know the explanations and the origin of all tauparapara?
See also tau, whaikōrero
3. (noun) five-finger, Pseudopanax arboreus - a tree with compound leaves with five to seven 'fingers' and thick, leathery leaves with large teeth. A small, many-branched, round-headed tree with thick, brittle, spreading branches. One of the most common native trees.
whau
1. (noun) cork tree, corkwood, Entelea arborescens - a native tree with large, heart-shaped, toothed, soft leaves, large white flowers and distinctive fruit of large, brown, spine-covered seed capsules. Found in coastal areas of the North Island at the base of cliffs and in sheltered gullies.
Ka utaina ngā peka mākū o te whau me te karamū ki runga i te ahi, ko te koromāhu hei rongoā mō ngā poroiwi kua whati (Te Ara 2012). / Wet branches were thrown on a fire with whau and karamū, to make steam as treatment for broken bones.
2. (noun) five-finger, Pseudopanax arboreus - a tree with compound leaves with five to seven 'fingers' and thick, leathery leaves with large teeth. A small, many-branched, round-headed tree with thick, brittle, spreading branches. One of the most common native trees.
See also whaupaku
Synonyms: whauwhaupaku, whaupaku, tauparapara, houhou, puahou
houhou
1. (noun) five-finger, Pseudopanax arboreus - a tree with compound leaves with five to seven 'fingers' and thick, leathery leaves with large teeth. A small, many-branched, round-headed tree with thick, brittle, spreading branches. One of the most common native trees.
See also whaupaku
Synonyms: whauwhaupaku, whau, whaupaku, tauparapara, puahou
puahou
1. (noun) five-finger, Pseudopanax arboreus - a tree with compound leaves with five to seven 'fingers' and thick, leathery leaves with large teeth. A small, many-branched, round-headed tree with thick, brittle, spreading branches. One of the most common native trees.
See also whaupaku
Synonyms: whauwhaupaku, whau, whaupaku, tauparapara, houhou
2. (numeral) fifth - when used with this meaning it is preceded by te and followed by o.
Nō te rima o Hānuere, ka tae au ki te kāinga, ki Nūhaka (HP 1991:59). / On the fifth of January I arrived home, to Nūhaka.
3. (numeral) fifthly, five - when preceded by ka it is used in counting out things or people or when there is a sequence of numbers.
E whitu ngā mea ka tuhia atu nā e au. Ko te whakatupu hapi ka tahi; ko te tou māpere ka rua; ko te mahi wāina ka toru; he ratipere ka whā; he kuitepere ka rima; he mahi mira ka ono (TWMNT 24/12/1872:161). / There are seven things that I will write about. Firstly, growing hops; secondly, planting mulberry trees; thirdly making wine; fourthly, raspberries; fifthly, gooseberries; and sixthly, making mills.
houmāpara
1. (noun) coastal five finger, Pseudopanax lessonii - a native tree with toothed leaves arranged in a hand-shape with 3-5 stalkless 'fingers' of glossy leaves with a raised midvein. Small, black seeds are in loose clusters. Found in coastal scrub and forest of northern North Island.
See also houpara
Synonyms: houparapara, parapara, whauwhau
parapara
1. (noun) coastal five finger, Pseudopanax lessonii - a native tree with toothed leaves arranged in a hand-shape with 3-5 stalkless 'fingers' of glossy leaves with a raised midvein. Small, black seeds are in loose clusters. Found in coastal scrub and forest of northern North Island.
See also houpara
Synonyms: houparapara, houmāpara, whauwhau
2. (noun) parapara, Pisonia brunoniana, bird-catcher tree - a native shrub of quick, rather soft growth carrying leaves up to 40 cm long of dark glossy green with nodular ridges down the length of the fruit that secrete a sticky substance.
He tikanga tā Ngāti Porou ki te tango i te hinu mai i ngā kākano o te parapara mā te koromamao, te paopao me te penupenu i ngā kākano (Te Ara 2012). / The Ngāti Porou tribe had a practice of extracting the oil from the seeds of parapara by steaming, pounding and pressing them.
Synonyms: pūhāureroa, pūwhāureroa
topa tahi
1. (noun) first five-eighth, fly-half, stand-off half (rugby and rugby league).
See also topatahi
2. (noun) coastal five finger, Pseudopanax lessonii - a native tree with toothed leaves arranged in a hand-shape with 3-5 stalkless 'fingers' of glossy leaves with a raised midvein. Small, black seeds are in loose clusters. Found in coastal scrub and forest of northern North Island.
See also houpara
Synonyms: houparapara, parapara, houmāpara
tuamaka
1. (noun) round cord plaited with five or six stands.
Kātahi rātou ka whiri taura; ka kitea i reira te whiri tuamaka, te tarikarakia, te whiri pāraharaha, te rino (NM 1928:13). / Then they plaited ropes and there were seen plaiting of five and six stranded ropes, ropes of eight strands, plaiting of flat ropes of three strands and ropes of two strands.
See also whiri iwituna
Synonyms: tari-karakia, tuapuku, tari-kākāriki, rauru, whiri papa, whiri kawe, kārure, tōpuku, whiri pāraharaha, whiri pekapeka, whiri taurakeke, whiri iwituna, tātoru
