rangatōpū ā-rohe
1. (noun) local body, local authority.
Arā atu anō ngā rangatōpū ā-rohe i pōtitia atu ia ki runga: ko te poari hōhipera o Te Wairoa, ko te poari hiko me te poari wahapū (TTR 1998:12). / There were other local bodies that he was also elected to: the Wairoa Hospital Board, the Electric-power Board and the Harbour Board.
Synonyms: mana ā-rohe
hau kāinga
1. (noun) home, true home, local people of a marae, home people.
Ko te hiahia o te whānau me moe kē ia i te tangata o te hau kāinga, kua oti kē i a rātou te whakarite māna, kia tūhonohono ai ngā whenua o ngā whānau e rua nei (TTR 2000:28). / In order to unite the lands of the two families, the family wanted her to marry a local man and had already arranged that for her.
whakatangata whenua
1. (verb) (-tia) to host, become comfortable with, become like a local.
He pono, he mea uaua te momotu mai a tētahi tangata i a ia i te whenua i whakatangata whenuatia ai ia, pēnei me au i momotu mai nei i a au i Niu Tīreni (HKW 1/1/1900:11). / It's true that it's difficult for a person to leave the country that has hosted him, like me leaving New Zealand.
2. (noun) naturalisation.
Ko te whakatangata whenua i ngā tāngata o ngā iwi kē e heke mai ana ki ngā koroni (Nga Korero Paremete: 1896-1899:4). / The naturalisation of people of other countries who are immigrating to the colonies.
tangata whenua
1. (verb) (-tia) to be natural, at home, comfortable.
Ki te tīmata mai te ako i te reo i te wā e nohinohi tonu ana ngā tamariki, ka kōrero Māori ngā tamariki rā, ka mau, ā, ka tangata whenua te reo ki roto i a rātou. / If learning the language begins when children are little, those children will speak Māori and the language will be natural to them.
2. (verb) (-tia) to be naturalised, acclimatise, established, adapted.
Ko tēnei rākau kua tangata whenuatia ki ēnei motu (TTT 1/9/1922:7). / This tree has become naturalized in these islands.
3. (noun) local people, hosts, indigenous people - people born of the whenua, i.e. of the placenta and of the land where the people's ancestors have lived and where their placenta are buried.
Ko te tangata whenua te hunga pupuri i te mana o tētahi whenua (Te Ara 2013). / The tangata whenua are the people who have authority in a particular place.
Synonyms: iwi kāinga, haukāinga
haukāinga
1. (noun) home, true home, local people of a marae, home people.
Nāna i whakakīkī te nuinga o te iwi o Taumutu kia hoki ki te haukāinga i runga i tana kī atu kua ū te maungārongo i reira (TTR 1990:146). / He persuaded the majority of the people of Taumutu to return home on his assurance that peace had been established there.
See also hau kāinga
Synonyms: tangata whenua, iwi kāinga
iwi kāinga
1. (noun) local people, hosts, home crowd.
Ā, i ēnei rā ka tū ngā kura reo ki ngā kuratini, ki ngā whare wānanga ko te iwi kāinga o taua rohe ngā kaiwhakahaere (HM 4/2008:1). / And these days language learning gatherings are held in polytehnics and universities and the local people of that area are the organisers.
Synonyms: tangata whenua, haukāinga
ā-rohe
1. (modifier) local, regional.
Riro ana nā Ānaru rātau ko Te Reiwhati Vercoe, ko Mana Pere te mahi ki te whakatūtū haere mai i ngā kaunihera ā-rohe mō ngā rōpū whakahaere ā-iwi (NTR 2000:1). / It was Ānaru, Te Reiwhati Vercoe and Norman Perry who set up the district councils of tribal executives.
mana ā-rohe
1. (noun) local authority.
Synonyms: rangatōpū ā-rohe
2. (location) the distance, a long way away.
He hangariki ngā whetū ki te titiro atu, nā te mea e noho ana ki tawhiti (PK 2008:74). / Stars appear to be small because they are situated a long way away.
3. (modifier) from abroad, foreign, exotic, introduced.
I te pānga o te urutā taru tawhiti i 1918 ka whakahōhiperatia a Tūtāmure (TTR 1994:6). / When the introduced epidemic of 1918 struck the Tūtāmure meeting house was turned into a hospital.
4. (noun) distance, distant locality.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 63-64;)
Mai i taua wāhi ki te tari o te Kānara, e whitu māero pea te tawhiti (HP 1991:180). / From that place to the Colonel's office was approximately seven miles distance.
wāhi
1. (verb) (-a) to break, split, break open, rend, break through, cut (a pack of cards).
Ā i pūhia anō hoki e ia tana raiwhara ki aua Māori, he mea pupuhi ake e ia i roto i te kaipuke, anō ka puta te matā i te papatakahi o te kaipuke, mate rawa atu te tangata i ngā maramara o ngā papa i wāhia ake e te matā o tana pū (TW 6/4/1878:152). / And he also fired his rifle at those natives, firing it inside the ship and the bullet came out on through the deck of the ship, and the splinters of the boards smashed by the bullet of his gun killed a man.
2. (verb) (-a) to partition, subdivide.
Mehemea kāore e whakaae katoa ngā tāngata nō rātou tētahi whenua, me tuku tonu atu e te Kōmihana ki te Tumuaki o te Kōti te rārangi ingoa o ngā tāngata e hē ana, me te tono hoki kia wāhia te whenua (RT 2013:100). / If the people who own a piece of land do not all agree, the Commissioner should submit the list of names of the people disagreeing to the Chief Judge with the request that the land be subdivided.
3. (noun) opening, break.
Synonyms: waha, angotanga, pūwaha, puta, puare, whakatuheratanga, whakapuaretanga, whakatuwheratanga, whakapuare, tomokanga, tāwaha, wāhinga, pūaha, tomotomokanga, pūahaaha, tarawaha, whakatuhera, putanga, wherawhera, whakatuwhera, wherahanga
4. (noun) location, locality, place, part, piece, portion, section, share, segment, allocation.
E rua ngā kōti tēnehi, me tētahi wāhi purei hōkī, otirā he wāhi motuhake mō ngā tini tākaro a ngā tamariki (TTT 1/12/1930:2201). / There were two tennis courts and a place to play hockey, indeed a special place for the many children's games.
Synonyms: taiwhanga, whiu, whakatakoto, whakanohonoho, whakanoho, whakatū, panga, makamaka, maka, whiuwhiu, kopou, piriri, pīhi, ngota, maramara, tūtanga, hea, tiri, tauwāhi, porohanga, mara, anganga, tapahanga, tekiona, kōwaewae, kaupeka, kōwae, moka, kōihi, wae, wāhanga, taha, wawae, kōwai, tūāporo, tekihana, wehenga, whiti, rārangi, tohatoha, toha, tuari, wakawaka
2. (noun) local community.
taiwhanga
1. (verb) (-a,-ia) to lurk, wait for.
Ka taiwhanga te taua kia hipa atu ngā hōia, kātahi ka kōkiri atu. / The war party lay in wait until the soldiers passed and then they attacked.
Synonyms: whakapupuni
2. (noun) place, locality, waiting room, space.
I mauheretia te tamaiti ki tētahi taiwhanga pakupaku i raro i te whare - kātahi nā te mahi rurerure, ko tēnā (PK 2008:797). / The child was imprisoned in a small space under the house - how's that for maltreatment.
Synonyms: wāhi, kopou, whiuwhiu, maka, makamaka, moka, panga, whakatū, wāhanga, whakanoho, whakanohonoho, whakatakoto, whiu
pāeke
1. (noun) the speaking procedure where all the local speakers speak first.
Ko te kawa whaikōrero o Te Whānau a Apanui he pāeke (TWK 46:12). / Te Whānau a Apanui's speaking procedure is pāeke.
See also tauutuutu, pāekeeke, whaikōrero
