kāpō
1. (stative) be blind, blindly.
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 matakerepō
2. (noun) blind person, blindness.
Ko te kāpō kei te ārahi i te kāpō (HM 4/2008:5). / The blind are leading the blind.
kapo
1. (verb) (-hia,-ngia,-a) to catch at, snatch.
Ki te whakaaro i āhua porairewa rawa ngā whakaaro o taua kaumātua, inā hoki, i kapohia ai tō rāua tira ko tana mokopuna e te aituā (HKW 1/1/1901:10). / We think that the thoughts of that elder may have become a little confused because their party, he and his grandchild, were overtaken by disaster.
2. (verb) (-hia) to flash.
3. (noun) lightning.
Nō te whatitiri, nō te kapo, nō te ua, he mea riringi iho nō runga, nō te rangi (JPS 1912:33). / It was of the thunder, of the lightning and of the rain, which was poured down from above, from the heavens.
