Kīngi
1. (loan) (personal name) King.
Heoi i te nui o ngā raruraru o te kāwanatanga i te matenga o Kīngi Tāwhiao, kīhai i whai rūma te minita me ngā kaiwhakawā whenua me te tumuaki hoki o te kāwanatanga ki te tuku i tētehi o ngā tiati o taua kōti… (KTP 20/11/1891:3). / However, because of the problems the government were faced with after the death of King Tāwhiao, the minister, the land judges and the head of government did not have a room to send one of the court judges…
Synonyms: kīngi
2. (loan) (noun) king, ruler, monarch, sovereign.
Ka mate a Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu, ka whakawahia a Tūheitia Paki hei kīngi o te Kīngitanga. / When the paramount chieftainess Te Atairangikaahu died Tūheitia Paki was anointed as king of the King Movement.
Synonyms: tauine
3. (loan) (personal name) King.
Āhua pōauau ana ngā kupu a Hoani Ngamu rāua ko Tāmati Hāpimana, i whakahoki ai i te tono a Wī Kīngi me Wī Maihi Te Rangikāheke hoki (TW 12/2/1875:8). / The response of John Ngamu and Thomas Chapman to the request of William King and William Marsh Te Rangikāheke was rather confused.
Synonyms: Kīngi
Kīngitanga
1. (loan) (noun) King Movement - a movement which developed in the 1850s, culminating in the anointing of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero as King. Established to stop the loss of land to the colonists, to maintain law and order, and to promote traditional values and culture. Strongest support comes from the Tainui tribes. Current leader is Tūheitia Paki.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 1-34; Te Kōhure Video Tapes (Ed. 1): 1;)
Erangi, ahakoa e iti haere ana te rahi me te awe o te Kīngitanga, he nui ngā āhuatanga e whakaatu mai ana kua huri haere kē tōna āhua ki tērā o te rōpū ōkawa (TTR 1996:84). / But although the size and influence of the King Movement was shrinking, in many ways it was showing that it was changing to a more formal group.
See also Wherowhero, Pōtatau Te, Haurua, Paki, Tūheitia, Korokī Te Rata Mahuta Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, Mahuta Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, Atairangikaahu, Te Arikinui Dame Te, Rata Mahuta Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, Te, Tāwhiao, Tūkaroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero
Haurua
1. (location) The location of a large hui in 1857 in the Ngāti Maniapoto territory where confirmation of the selection of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero as the first Māori King. It was also affirmed that the Kingship was to be hereditary in his family. Pōtatau had been selected as King at Pūkawa on the western shore of Lake Taupō in November 1856.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 1-34; Te Kōhure Video Tapes (Ed. 1): 1;)
2. (loan) (modifier) king-making.
Nā tēnei mahi whakakīngi i kaha ai, i nui ai (TH 4/1861:2). / It has become stronger and bigger due to this king-making activity.
3. (loan) (noun) king-making.
E rongo ana koe i ā te Māori mahi i te whakakīngi, me ētahi atu o ōna ritenga (MM.TKM 30/11/1857:12) / You are hearing of the Māori activities in making a King, and other practices.
2. (verb) (-a) to avenge, take revenge - also as huki toto.
Ka haere te taua huki toto i konei, tae rawa atu ki te wāhi i mate ai ngā hoa o Pokuru ko ngā upoko ko ngā piro anake te tāwheta ana i te tapātai o te awa (JPS 1928:183). / The avenging war party now started, and when they finally reached the place where the companions of Pokuru had died they found only the heads and intestines piled up on the shore of the river.
3. (adjective) be extra high (of the tide), spring (tide), king (tide).
He huki nō te tai, ka tīmata te nui haere, te nui ake o ngā tai (W 1971:68). / It's spring tides when the tides begin to become bigger.
4. (noun) spit for roasting food.
5. (noun) round house with a conical roof.
ngā tai a Kupe
1. exceptionally high tides, king tides, spring tides.
Ka whawhai atu koe ki ngā tai a Kupe (W 1971:361). / You will battle against the king tides.
Synonyms: taitai nunui
uwhi para
1. (noun) king fern, horseshoe fern, Marattia salicina - huge, tufted native ground fern with unusually large, heavy, dark, glossy fronds, divided into long, strap-like leaflets. Stalks clasping at base, with large ear-like lobes. The underground stems were an important food.
See also para
Synonyms: para, parareka, paratawhiti
parareka
1. (noun) king fern, horseshoe fern, Marattia salicin - huge, tufted native ground fern with unusually large, heavy, dark, glossy fronds, divided into long, strap-like leaflets. Stalks clasping at base, with large ear-like lobes. The underground stems were an important food.
See also para
Synonyms: para, paratawhiti, uwhi para
2. (noun) potato (Eastern dialect), Solanum tuberosum - a general term for potato but also refers to a specific oval-shaped cultivar with pink-and-yellow mottled skin and white floury flesh.
Ka riro taua whare hei kītini mahinga kai, muri iho ka noho hei pākoro parareka, paukena hoki (TP 10/1905:10). / That building was used as a kitchen to prepare food, and later it became a storehouse for potatoes and pumpkins.
See also taewa
taitai nunui
1. (noun) spring tides, king tides.
Ko ngā rohe o taua whenua ka tīmata i te ngutuawa o Te Hape kei Kauaeranga, haere tonu i te awa o Waiwhakaurunga i te mutunga tai timu ki te ngutuawa tai timu i ngā taitai nunui. / The boundaries of that land begin at the mouth of Te Hape at Kauaeranga and continue along the Waiwhakarunga river ending at the low tide at the river mouth at low tide when there are spring tides...
See also tai nui
Synonyms: ngā tai a Kupe
tai nui
1. (noun) spring tide, king tide, tidal wave, huge tide.
Tekau mā rua putu te teitei o te tai nui i pā atu ki te ākau o Tonga, he motu kei te taha whakarua o Niu Tīrani (TWMNT 5/6/1877:149). / The tidal wave that struck the shores of Tonga, islands to the north-east of New Zealand, was twelve feet high.
See also taitai nunui
Tātua-a-Riukiuta, Te
1. (location) Three Kings (Auckland) - a group of volcanic cones, sometimes shortened to Te Tātua.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 107;)
Tērā pea i kuraina a ia i te kura a te Rōpū Māori Wēteriana i te wāhi o Ākarana e kīia nei ko Te Tātua (TTR 1994:25). / She may have been educated at the Wesleyan Native Institution at Three Kings in Auckland.
para
1. (noun) king fern, horseshoe fern, Marattia salicina - huge, tufted native ground fern with unusually large, heavy, dark, glossy fronds, divided into long, strap-like leaflets. Stalks clasping at base, with large ear-like lobes. The underground stems were an important food.
Ka tunua ki te ahi ka maoa, ka romia, tangotango ana, ka mawhaki, ka kitea te māngaro, ka kīia kātahi te para māngaro (TP 1/1911:4). / It is cooked in the fire and when ready, it is squeezed, handled, broken open and the flouriness is discovered so the comment is made that it is floury para fern tubers.
Synonyms: parareka, paratawhiti, uwhi para
2. (noun) banded kōkopu, cockabully, Galaxias fasciatus, whitebait - small, blunt-nosed, endemic freshwater fish that is slender, lacks scales and carries a dorsal fin set far to the rear. Head and body dark brown to olive-green with narrow polar bars crossing flanks and continuous across back. Widespread in forested areas. Capable of climbing moist vertical faces. The juvenile form is called whitebait.
See also kōkopu
Synonyms: kōkopuruao, kōkopu taiwhara, kōkopu, kōpakopako, parakeke, ruao, ruwao, moruru, kōriwhariwha, kōawheawhe
3. (noun) orchid tuber - tuberous edible roots of potato orchids, Gastrodia cunninghamii, Orthoceras strictum.
Manawatāwhi
1. (location) Three Kings Islands - a group of 13 uninhabited islands about 55 kilometres northwest of Cape Reinga. Strictly speaking the largest island is Manawatāwhi (Great Island), which was inhabited in 1642 when Abel Tasman visited. Other smaller islands are known as Ohau, Moekawa, and Oromaki.
2. (loan) (noun) sovereignty.
Nā reira, ko te kuīni he tohu noa iho o te mana kīngitanga o te Pāremata o Ingarani (RT 2013:28). / And so the queen is just a symbol of the sovereignty of the Parliament of England.
