2. (modifier) as a girl.
I haere kōtiro atu ki te tahatū o te rangi, nāwai nāwai ā, ka hoki rūruhi mai ki te wā kāinga (HJ 2015:117). / She went off to the horizon as a girl, and after a long time she returned home as an elderly woman.
3. (noun) girl.
Nō te whānautanga o Te Ataihaea, he kōtiro, kua hiahia tō mātau māmā kia riro mai i a ia hai whāngai māna (HP 1991:19). / When Te Ataihaea, a girl, was born our mother wanted to adopt her as a foster child.
4. (noun) daughter.
Kātahi ka titiro atu te rangatira o te pā nei ki tana kōtiro ka hoi noa atu ki tawhiti o te pā (NM 1928:143). / Then the chief of this pā noticed that his daughter was a long way away from the pā.
2. (noun) girl.
Ka tata mai te waka o te tāne ki te taketake o te toka e noho rā te tamāhine i runga (TP 4/1909:11). / The husband's canoe approached the base of the rock on which the girl was sitting.
kairau
1. (noun) prostitute, courtesan, loose woman, slut, whore, harlot, call girl.
Ko koutou ia, awhi mai ki konei, e ngā tama a te wahine mākutu, e ngā uri o te tangata pūremu, o te wahine kairau (PT Ihāia 57:3). / But you, draw near, the sons of the sorceress, the descendants of the adulterer and the whore.
Synonyms: kaikairau, karihika, kaimahi kairau
2. (noun) halfback (rugby), scrum half.
2. (noun) in peace, placidness, non-agressiveness, passiveness.
Ka tae ki Te Uma-o-Te Aowehea (te kāinga o Hōri Mahue i ēnei rā), ka anga te aroaro o Te Rangipaia ki te pā, ka patu ki waenganui i ōna kūhā. He whakaatu tēnei ki te pā, ki te iwi hoki, he tamawahine te haere nei, arā, he maungārongo (TKO 31/8/1919:6). / When they reached Te Uma-o-Te Aowehea (Hōri Mahue's home these days) Te Rangipaia faced the pā and hit between his thighs. This was to show the people in the pā that this was a passive visit, that is it was peaceful.
Synonyms: hūmārika
3. (noun) east.
kaikairau
1. (noun) prostitute, courtesan, loose woman, slut, whore, harlot, call girl.
See also kairau
Synonyms: kairau, karihika, kaimahi kairau
kawanga whare
1. (noun) house-opening ceremony - the formal pre-dawn ceremony to open a new building, especially a meeting house. Because the newly carved house has been made of timber from the forests of the atua, Tāne-mahuta, and because there are carved figures of ancestors around the walls of the meeting house, the tapu on the house has to be lifted so that the building can be used by everybody. The tohunga recites karakia outside the building and the building is named. There are three karakia used, the first about Rātā, an early ancestor who was a carver and builder of canoes, and the birds of the forest which have to be appeased. The second karakia is to lift the tapu from the building and the tools used, and the third is an appeal to the atua to make the house stable and firm, to avert accidents and to make it a pleasant dwelling place. Then the tohunga and a ruahine (an older woman of rank and past child-bearing age), or a young girl, enter the house treading over the door sill, called takahi i te paepae tapu. Traditionally they would carry a cooked kūmara as well. Everybody follows the tohunga into the house as he moves around from the left side (facing out) of the house to the right. The tohunga strikes each of the carved figures with kawakawa leaves, as he moves around the house.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 170-171;)
See also kawa whakaara, kawa waere, kawa whakahoro, kawa tuainuku, kawa ahoahonga, kawa ora, kawa whakaotinga, kawa
