kōpāpā
1. (stative) be crowded, full, crammed-full, restricted to a small space, confined.
Ko Te Tapuwae tonu te urupā rongonui o roto o Rūātoki. Tae rawa mai ki te tau 1955, kua kōpāpā rawa hai tanu tūpāpaku (TTR 1990:238). / Te Tapuwae remains the important burial place in Rūātoki. By 1955 it had become too crowded for further burials.
2. (stative) be bent into a hook.
2. (noun) small canoe - a dugout canoe without attached sides, surfboard.
I te mutunga o te kura i te tahi o ngā hāora, o te awatea, ā, ka uta ki runga ki tētehi kōpapa iti nei, ka whakawhiti ki tētehi taha o Waipā, tokorima ki runga ki taua kōpapa nei (TH 1/8/1859:4). / When school finished at 1 p.m. they climbed onto a small dugout canoe and crossed to the other side of the Waipā. There were five people on that dugout.
3. (noun) storehouse, depot.
Nō Oketopa, i whakatūria a ia hei kāpara iti mō te rōpū kōpapa tohu hiato (TTR 2000:160). / In October he was made a lance corporal for the Composite Signal Depot.
kōpapa
1. (noun) silo.
Synonyms: whare witi
mata kōpapa
1. (noun) meniscus.
Ko ngā tōpana kei te mata o tētahi wē i rō ipuipu, ānō nei he kiri roroha. Nā te renarena mata e kōpapa ai te āhua o te mata o te wē. Ka kīia ko te mata kōpapa (RP 2009:369). / The forces at the surface of a liquid in a tube that make it behave as though it is an elastic skin. Surface tension results in a concave surface which is called a meniscus (RP 2009:369).
