kōpura
1. (noun) seed kūmara, kūmara tubers.
He tika titiro ai ngā tūpuna ki ngā pō tika hei rerenga mō te kūmara, hei ngā pō kore ua nō te mea ki te rokohanga te kōpura kūmara e te ua ka mate (TKO 11/1920:4). / It's right that the ancestors considered what were the correct nights for planting kūmara and nights when there was no rain, because if it rained the kūmara tubers would die.
kōpura
1. (verb) to flash, flicker, twinkle, shine.
Synonyms: tīrama, pīata, titi, tore, titiwha, whakahīnātore, whakakanapa, whakakōpura, whakapīata, aho, kōrapu, iraira, tīaho, hahana, parakena, kōwatawata, kohara, hana, kōtamutamu, tīramarama, tōwahiwahi, tōwāwahi
peita kōpura
1. (loan) (noun) impressionism painting - a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterised by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and colour.
Ko te peita kōpura, i tīmata mai i a Claude Monet i Parī i te rautau 19, e tino aro ana ki te whakaatanga o te aho i te kaupapa o te peita, me te kapo a te ringapeita i te wairua e kitea ana e ia (RTA 2014:133). / Impressionism painting began with Claude Monet in Paris in the Nineteenth Century and focuses on the effect of light as the subject of the painting and the painter's capturing of the mood perceived by him.
