whare rūnanga
1. (noun) meeting house.
Nā te rūnanga i Pēria i whakahaere te kāwanatanga o te rohe, me te whakawā ina te wānangatia ki roto i te whare rūnanga (TTR 1990:321). / The council at Pēria provided local government and also dispensed justice, after discussion in the meeting house.
See also wharenui
Synonyms: wharenui, whare whakairo
tara iti
1. (noun) floor space on the left on entering a meeting house.
Ka haria mai e te manuhiri ā rātou kawenga ki roto i te wharenui. Ko rātou ki te tara nui o te whare moe ai, ko te tangata whenua ki te tara iti (TWK 46:13). / The visitors take their luggage into the meeting house. They sleep on the right side on entering a meeting house, the local people are on the left side.
whare whakairo
1. (noun) carved house, meeting house.
Nā Ngata ka tū te maha o ngā whare whakairo puta noa i te motu (Te Ara 2014). / It was because of Ngata that many carved meeting houses were erected throughout the country.
Synonyms: wharenui, whare rūnanga
wharenui
1. (noun) meeting house, large house - main building of a marae where guests are accommodated. Traditionally the wharenui belonged to a hapū or whānau but some modern meeting houses, especially in large urban areas, have been built for non-tribal groups, including schools and tertiary institutions. Many are decorated with carvings, rafter paintings and tukutuku panels.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 265-266;)
See also whare whakairo, tipuna whare
Synonyms: whare whakairo, whare rūnanga
pou āniwaniwa
1. (noun) back wall post of a meeting house - supported the ridge pole in the back wall of a meeting house.
Synonyms: pou te āniwaniwa, pou tuarongo
pou tuarongo
1. (noun) back wall post of a meeting house - supported the ridge pole in the back wall of a meeting house. Sometimes as one word, i.e. poutuarongo.
E toru ngā pou tūhono i te tāhuhu ki te papa, arā, ko te pou tāhū, ko te pou tokomanawa, ko te pou tuarongo (Te Ara 2012). / Three posts support the tāhuhu (ridgepole), namely the pou tāhū (front post), the pou tokomanawa (centre post) and the pou tuarongo (back wall post).
See also pou āniwaniwa
Synonyms: pou āniwaniwa, pou te āniwaniwa
pou te āniwaniwa
1. (noun) back wall post of a meeting house - supported the ridge pole in the back wall of a meeting house.
Synonyms: pou āniwaniwa, pou tuarongo
2. (noun) forward (rugby).
tūngaroa
1. (noun) back wall of a meeting house.
O ngā mahi katoa i mahia e Eruera mō te marae o Kōkōhīnau, ko tētahi i tutū ai te puehu, ko te tapahanga i te kūaha ki te tūngaroa o te whare tipuna, o Ōruataupare (EM 2002:81). / Of all the things done by Eruera for Kōkōhīnau marae, the most contentious one was the cutting of the door in the back wall of the ancestral house, Ōruataupare.
paepae kai āwhā
1. (noun) beam across the front of the meeting house at ground level.
Ka oti te whare he karakia anō te huakitanga i te whatitoka me te takahanga i te paepae kai āwhā (TPH 6/3/1905:1). / When the house is completed there are ritual chants for the opening of the door and stepping over the board in front of the house.
2. (verb) to make peace - in the phrases tahi i te tahua, tahia te tahua or tahi te tahua.
Nā Te Purewa tonu i tahi te tahua i waenga i a rāua (TTR 1990:260). / Te Purewa himself had made peace between them.
Synonyms: hohou, hohou rongo, hohou te rongo, hou, hohou i te rongo, houhou, whawhau
roro
1. (noun) brain, marrow, spongy matter.
Nō reira tētahi o ngā tāngata nei, te mea e haere ana i runga paihikara, e tuohu ana, e kaha ana te panapana o tōna manawa, me te kaha o tana haere ka kaha atu hoki te rere o ngā toto ki roto i te roro o tōna māhuna (TP 2/1905:3). / One of the men from that place was riding a bicycle, bent over with his heart pounding and because he was cycling so energetically the flow of blood in the brain of his head was also pumping hard.
2. (noun) front end of a meeting house, verandah, porch, lobby.
Nō te hāwhe pāhi i te tahi o ngā hāora ka kawangia te whare, i tū katoa te iwi ki te roro o te whare (TPH 5/1/1903:5). / At half past one the house opening ceremony was performed and the people all stood in the verandah of the house.
Synonyms: tupehau, mahau, kōihi, whakamahau, haurangi, kopa pākai, hōpua
pou tokomanawa
1. (noun) centre pole supporting the ridge pole of a meeting house.
Ka tāraia e Tōpia te pakoko o Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua ki te pou tokomanawa o tana whare hou, o Te Ao Mārama; i Ōhinemutu tēnei whare (TTR 1994:195). / Tōpia fashioned an effigy of Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua on the centre pole of his new house, Te Ao Mārama, at Ōhinemutu.
E toru ngā pou tūhono i te tāhuhu ki te papa, arā, ko te pou tāhū, ko te pou tokomanawa, ko te pou tuarongo (Te Ara 2012). / Three posts support the tāhuhu (ridgepole), namely the pou tāhū (front post), the pou tokomanawa (centre post) and the pou tuarongo (back wall post).
tahuaroa
1. (noun) open space, space in front of the meeting house, courtyard - sometimes as tahua roa.
I whiua e aua rangatira ki te tahuaroa te kahu kiwi, te māhiti, te paepaeroa, te koroai: kei nga whare whakakitekite e iri ana hei mātakitaki mā te Pākehā (TTT 1/5/1922:6). / Those chiefs threw onto the open space kiwi feather cloaks, capes covered with long white hair of dogs' tails, and cloaks ornamented with black thrums. They are hanging in museums for Pākehā to view.
paepae kaiāwhā
1. beam across the front of the verandah of a meeting house.
Ka whārikitia e te tohunga tarahau te whāriki, me ngā taonga; ko ngā ua o ngā kahu ki raro iho i te matapihi o te whare; ko ngā remu o ngā kahu ki te taha mai ki te paepae kaiāwhā (JPS 1929:266). / The assistant expert spread a mat and treasures; the collars of the cloaks under the window of the house and the lower borders of the cloaks toward the beam across the front of the verandah of the house.
See also paepae kai āwhā
paepae kainga āwhā
1. (noun) beam across the front of the meeting house at ground level.
See also paepae kai āwhā
