tiki
1. (noun) carved figure, image, a neck ornament usually made of greenstone and carved in an abstract form of a human.
Ko te tiki te hei rongonui rawa, ka rite tōna āhua ki tētahi tangata e noho ana me ōna waewae whiri (Te Ara 2013). / The most well-known neck pendant is the tiki, which is shaped like a figure sitting cross-legged.
2. (noun) post to mark a tapu place.
2. (verb) (-tia) to form, fashion.
Ka haere a Tāne, whakaahua i te oneone, he wahine māhana. Ko Hinehaone te ingoa o taua wahine (Tr 1874:34). / Tāne went off and from the earth he formed a woman for himself. That woman was Hinehaone.
3. (verb) (-tia) to photograph, portray, film.
Kātahi ka mea mai me mau e au ki te nūpepa o Taupō kia whakaahuatia (HP 1991:308). / Then it was decided that I should take it to Taupō's newspaper to be photographed.
Synonyms: whakaahuatanga
4. (noun) photograph, illustration, portrait, picture, image, shot (photograph), photocopy.
Ko te whakaahua kei runga tonu ake o taua ingoa he tangata mangumangu kei roto i te tāpu wai. E rua ngā Pākehā kei te horoi i a ia ki te paraihe, ki te hopi (TTT 1/10/1921:5). / The illustration just above that name is of a black person in a bathtub. There are two Pākehā washing him with brushes and soap.
5. (noun) design.
Kei te poraka e mau ana te moko o te Taura Whiri (arā, ki te uma (taha mauī), he whakaahua paku noa iho), ā, kei te angaangamate ko te moko whakanui i te Tau o te Reo Māori (HM 4/1994:12). / On the sweatshirt is the logo of the Māori Language Commission (that is on the chest (left side), just a small design), and on the reverse side is the logo celebrating the Year of the Māori Language.
whakapakoko
1. (verb) (-tia) to dry, mummify, preserve a corpse.
Ka whakapakokotia te tūpāpaku, ka tuakina te puku, ka waiho kia maroke, kātahi ka kawea pukutia ki roto ki te ana (W 1971:255). / When the corpse was mummified, and after the stomach was removed, it was left to dry, and then taken secretly into the cave.
2. (modifier) image of.
I ngā motu o Hawaiki nei, i te wā e mutu ai te kai o te ahiahi, ka tae te tino kaumātua ki te wai, he mea tāwiri i te rākau kawakawa nei, ā he mea hoatu taua wai hei whakahere ki ngā atua whakapakoko, he mea hoki kia ora ai rātou aua tāngata i te hoariri, i te kōhuru, i te matekai (TW 30/11/1878:600). / In the islands of Hawaiki (Hawai‘i), at the time when the evening meal is over, the senior elder arrives with water and shakes the kawakawa tree and presents that water as an offering to the images of the gods so that they will save those people from the enemy, from treacherous acts and hunger.
3. (noun) statue, idol, mummy, figure, statuette, carved image (figure of a person, etc.).
Ka whakairohia e Te Kere ngā whakapakoko e rua (TTR 1990:250). / Te Kere carved the two figures.
3. (verb) to be infertile.
Mā taua pī nui e kawe te puehu o tētahi o ngā pua ki tētahi, kātahi ka tika ōna pua, arā ngā purapura, ka tupu. Ā ka kore e pērātia ka pakoko ngā pua (KO 8/8/1890:4). / That large bee will take the pollen of one of the flowers to another one, then its flower will be fertilized, that is the seed, and it will grow. If this doesn't happen the seeds will be infertile.
4. (verb) to be sunken, gaunt.
He hanga aroha tō rātou āhua: tawhito ana ngā kākahu, piko ana ngā tuarā, pakoko ana ngā kanohi (TP 1/6/1900:7). / Their appearance was pitiful: the clothes were old, their backs were bent and their faces were gaunt.
5. (noun) dryness.
6. (noun) image, statue, effigy.
Ka tāraia e Tōpia te pakoko o Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua ki te poutokomanawa o tana whare hou, o Te Ao Mārama; i Ōhinemutu tēnei whare (TTR 1994:195). / Tōpia fashioned an effigy of Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua on the centre pole of his new house, Te Ao Mārama, at Ōhinemutu.
7. (noun) an armless figurehead of a canoe.
E whā ngā waka nei, he waka toiera, he waka pītau, he waka pakoko, he waka tētē (TP 4/1911:10). / These four canoes were: a war canoe with a carved stern and stem, a canoe with a figurehead, a canoe with an armless figurehead, and a canoe with a figurehead without arms and legs.
8. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides and other species of bully - stocky fish with large heads, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. Giant bully is very dark, often black with irregular, golden olive lines on cheeks and a linear series of small, golden speckles on each flank. An endemic fish widespread in esturine and coastal waters of the North and South Islands. Rarely moves more than 2 km inland. Emerges at night to feed.
See also kōkopu
9. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
2. (modifier) spiritual, religious.
Me whakaaro te kāwanatanga kia whakaakona ōna tāngata ki ngā mea whakawhenua; me te Hāhi hoki e whakaako ana ki ngā mea whakawairua (TMT 15/8/1861:7). / The government must consider the secuIar instruction of its people, and the Church teaches the religious things.
Synonyms: whakapono
2. (modifier) clearly.
He kuatau nō Paikea ki te whenua i heke mai ai ia, ka kimi nei i Aotearoa nei i te wāhi e mau ariari ana te āhua ki taua Whāngārā-mai-tawhiti (TTT 1/10/1922:10). / It was because of Paikea's yearning for the land from which he had migrated that he sought a place in the North Island that clearly looked like that other Whāngārā-mai-tawhiti (distant Whāngārā).
3. (noun) clarity, resolution (of an image).
Ko te ariari te mārama o te kitea atu o ngā hanga ririki i tētahi whakaahua (RTA 2014:78). / The resolution is the clarity of the visibility of the fine detail in a photograph (RTA 2014:78).
2. (noun) form, shape, semblance.
Ko te ata, ko te āhua hoki o ngā taonga i riro i a rātou, ko te hei, ko ngā whakakai i mahue tonu iho (NM 1928:153). / They took the shapes and forms of the treasures, but the actual neck and ear ornaments were left behind.
Synonyms: āhuahanga, taratarai, ahuahu, auaha, pokepoke, tārai, tārei, hanga, āhua
3. (noun) reflected image, reflection.
Ka kite ia i te ata tangata i roto i te wai (W 1971:18). / She saw a man's reflection in the water.
Synonyms: whakaatanga, ataata, whakaahuatanga, whakaata
4. (noun) shadow (of a human).
He tangata mana, he tangata mākutu a Kīkī...Ka whiti te rā, e kore hoki e haere a Kīkī i te wāhi noa, kei haere tōna ata ki muri, kei tapu (NM 1928:145). / Kīkī was a person of mana and a man who practised mākutu...When the sun shone, Kīkī would never walk about anywhere lest his shadow move behind and the ground become tapu.
5. (noun) icon, computer icon.
2. (noun) print, print image, imprint.
Ko te mātātuhi he whakaahua ka whakaputaina mā te whakairo me te uhi i tētahi papa ki te waituhi, me te pēhi atu ki te pepa, ki te papanga rānei (RTA 2014:115). / A print is an image that is produced by pressing a plate that has been carved and covered with ink onto paper or cloth (RTA 2014:115).
Synonyms: kāone, perehi, tā, hāraunga, whakakawenata
2. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: pōhue, kūpapa, kōhia, kohe, kaimanu, akakaikū, akatororaro, akakūkū, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
kawemai
1. (noun) importing (an image, computer file, etc.).
Ko te kawemai te whakawhiti i tētahi whakaahua, tuhinga, oro, raraunga kē atu rānei, mai i tētahi kōnae i tō rorohiko ki te kaupapa e mahi nā koe (RTA 2014:216). / Importing is the transfer of an image, text, sound, or database from a file on your computer to the project that you are working on.
2. (verb) (-a) to divide, lay out boundaries.
Kātahi ka tīkina he kairūri, māna e rūri, e mapi, e kotikoti kia hia rānei pīhi (MM.TKM 30/6/1857:3). / Then send for a surveyor to survey the land, map it and divide it into allotments.
3. (verb) to be striped.
Kotikoti ana tōna hāte ki te pango, ki te whero, ki te mā. / His shirt was striped with black, red and white.
4. (modifier) separated.
Ka kawea ki te wai kotikoti, arā ki te wai whakaika (W 1971:76). / He was taken to the special water, that is to the ritual pool.
5. (noun) cutter.
6. (noun) slice tool (digital image editing).
Ko te kotikoti hei wehewehe i tētahi whakaahua ki ētahi wāhanga iti, he torotika ngā tapa o aua wāhanga iti (RTA 2014:217). / The slice tool is to divide up a photograph into small parts and to straighten the edges of those small parts.
mātātea
1. (modifier) light part of an image.
Ko te taurite te āhua o tā te ringatoi whakanoho i ngā āhuatanga hoahoa ki roto i tana mahinga toi, pērā i ngā wāhanga mātātea me ngā wāhanga mātāuri o tētahi mahinga toi ataata, o ngā oro mārū me ngā oro tīkā rānei i tētahi toi puoro (RTA 2014:172). / The balance is the way an artist arranges the basic design elements within an artwork, such as the light and dark areas of a piece of visual art, and the low and high pitched sounds of a piece of music (RTA 2014:172).
