makau

1. (adjective) recurved.

makau

1. (noun) favourite, object of affection, lover, spouse, wife, husband.

Ko tā rāua makau ko Pirihira Kātipa, ā, iwa noa iho tōna pakeke i tōna matenga mai i te tau 1939 (TTR 1996:52). / Their favourite was Pirihira Kātipa, and she died in 1939 when she was only nine.

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Synonyms: māpihi maurea, kaitokomauri, tau, tahu, hoa tākunekune, whaiāipo, ipo, kairoro, tau o te ate

makau-rau

1. (verb) (-tia) to have many lovers.

Tāmaki-makau-rau

1. (location) Auckland.

Therefore, it is correct that we of Tamaki-makau-rau, who invited the first Governor to Waitemata, should greet his successor and again utter that song of our ancestor Titai. Link here Nā reira e tika ana kia tūtaki tātou o Tāmaki-makau-rau, i pōwhiri ai i te Kāwana tuatahi ki te Waitematā, ki tana piki tūranga, ka waiata anō ai i tērā waiata a tō tātou tupuna, a Titai. /

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Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau, Te

1. (location) Auckland University of Technology, AUT University.

Tāmakimakaurau

1. (location) Auckland Isthmus, Auckland - sometimes written as Tāmaki-makau-rau or Tāmaki Makau Rau.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 4;)

E hoki mai ana rātau ki te whakatā mō te kotahi wiki, ka hoki atu ai ki tō rātau puni i Takapuna, Tāmaki-makau-rau (HP 1991:33). / They were returning to rest up for the week before returning to their camp at Takapuna, Auckland.

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