2. (noun) torch flare, torch, lamp, light, lighting, artificial light.
He mea ātanga te paina ki te rama kimokimo me te whetū taukapokapo (PK 2008:38). / The pine tree was adorned with flashing lights and twinkling stars.
Synonyms: raiti, tūramarama, tūrama, mārama, māramatanga, tahu, tahutahu, teatea
2. (noun) light, lighting.
Ka tīkina atu e ia te tūrama hei titiro kia āta mārama ai (KO 14/9/1882:2). / He went and got the light so that he could look at it clearly.
Synonyms: tūramarama, mārama, māramatanga, teatea, tahu, tahutahu, rama
2. (noun) (vehicle) rear light.
aho
1. (verb) to shine.
Synonyms: tīrama, pīata, titi, tore, titiwha, whakahīnātore, whakakanapa, whakakōpura, whakapīata, kōpura, kōrapu, iraira, tīaho, hahana, parakena, kōwatawata, kohara, hana, kōtamutamu, tīramarama, tōwahiwahi, tōwāwahi
2. (noun) radiant light - as opposed to diffused light.
Me kore ake te rā me tōna aho i ora ai ngā mea oraora katoa o te ao (PK 2008:5). / We are fortunate with the sun and its radiant light whereby all living things of the world benefit.
one-punga
1. (noun) light soil, light soil lacking substance.
Ka ui mai a Tamatea, “Pēwhea ake te tuawhenua?” Ka mea atu a Ngātoro', "He one-tai ētahi wāhi, he one-matua ētahi wāhi, he one-tuatara, he paraumu, he one-rere, he one-punga, he one-haruru, he one-puia, he one-kirikiri, he one-pōwhatu, he one-takataka, ētahi wāhi." (JPS 1915:1). / Tamatea asked, “What kind of land is this?” Ngātoro' replied, “It is good, some parts are alluvial soils, some parts are loamy soils, others stiff brown soils, others dark friable soils, free draining soils, light spongy soils, light sandy soils, red volcanic soils, gravelly soils, stony soils, and some parts are friable soils.”
Ngā Kurakura o Hinenuitepō
1. (noun) aurora australis, southern lights - a luminous electrical atmospheric phenomenon usually of streamers of light in the sky above the southern magnetic pole.
Ka rongo tonu atu te kōtatara o ngā manu o te ngahere; te tūī me te korimako, te tīwaiwaka "kūtia ai te mate", kia rere ko Ngā Kurakura o Hinenuitepō e kitea nei i Rakiura, i Te Waipounamu (TWK 33:22). / The chattering of the birds of the forest was heard continually; tūī, bellbirds and the fantail that was squeezed by misfortune, to exhibit the aurora australis that is seen in Stewart Island and the South Island.
See also Tahu-nui-a-rangi
Tahu-nui-a-rangi
1. (personal noun) aurora australis, southern lights - a luminous electrical atmospheric phenomenon usually of streamers of light in the sky above the southern magnetic pole.
Whakamīharo ana te kite i a Tahu-nui-a-rangi. Me te ārai kākāriki e pīwari ana i te rangi pō (PK 2008:811). / Seeing the aurora australis is amazing. It's like a green veil waving in the night sky.
2. (noun) match, lighter, lucifer.
Synonyms: pūahi, kēmu, whakataetae
2. (verb) (-tia) to blink, wink (as a secret sign).
He kōrero māminga nāna; i whakakini mai hoki ōna kanohi, mōku kia nohopuku (W 1971:118). / She spoke deceptively; and winked at me to remain silent.
See also whakakikini
wheiao
1. (noun) daylight, world of light - a word usually coupled with ao mārama.
Ko te wheiao te wāhi kei waenganui i te aopōuri me te ao mārama; engari, ko ia te wāhi e tata atu ki te pūaotanga o te māramatanga. Ko te wheiao tuatahi i puta mai i te wā i noho piritahi a Ranginui rāua ko Papatūānuku me ā rāua tamariki (Rewi 2005:16). / The wheiao is the place between the world of darkness and the world of light, but it is closer to the unfolding of the world of light. The first wheiao occurred at the time that Ranginui and Papatūānuku and their children lived together.
See also whaiao
wani
1. (verb) (-a) to scrape, skim over, glide over, graze, touch lightly, comb (the hair).
E ai ki te mahara ake o tētehi o te minenga ki a Mere e wani mai ana i te whatārangi kia tū ai ki te aroaro-ā-kapa, ki reira haka tahi atu ai me rātau me te puta o te ihi, o te wana (TTR 1998:1). / One member of the audience remembered Mere gliding across the stage to stand in the front row of the haka group to join them in the haka with great excitement and gusto.
Synonyms: kowani, kaku, waku, wakuwaku, pākēkē, waru, harakuku, hāro, rakaraka, raraku, tīwani, honihoni, kauhoro, wharowharo, raku, tuakuku, okoi, rakuraku, weku, hākuku, whawharo, tahitahi, waruwaru
Manakotea
1. (personal noun) Light Magellanic cloud, one of two diffuse luminous regions of the southern sky now known to be a galaxy and a satellite of the Milky Way containing perhaps 10,000 million stars.
See also Pātari-rangi, Tīoreore
