hāngū
1. (verb) to be dumb, mute, quiet, incommunicative, not talkative, silent, taciturn, passive, still.
Ko ana tikanga e rite ana ki tā mātou titiro ki te tangata i kīia e te iwi he tino tangata, ā hāngū tonu iho (TW 26/7/1875:112). / In our opinion his career is like the man who the people said was wise, but was mute.
2. (modifier) dumb, mute, quiet, incommunicative, not talkative, silent, taciturn, passive.
Mā tana noho hāngū ka kīia ai e te iwi he tika te kōrero tūtara mōna (TW 11/8/1877:322). / Because he remained silent the people said that the rumour about him was correct.
Synonyms: wahangū, whakaroau, mū, noho ngutu kau, ngū, mōhū, whakakeke, haumūmū, whakamārie, whakamāria, whakamārire, hū, rata, hūnguengue, rarata, mārire, maho, rangimārie, māhaki, māika, nohopuku, tōngā, nguengue
3. (noun) mute.
I whakapai nei i ngā tamariki i mauria atu ki a Ia; i whakaora nei i ngā matapō, i ngā taringa kua turi, i ngā hāngū, i ngā kopa, i ngā repera (THM 1/4/1889:5). / He blessed the children brought to Him; cured the blind, the deaf, the mute, the lame and the lepers.
4. (modifier) passive - a grammatical term for passive sentences (rerenga hāngū) when the subject undergoes the action of the verb, i.e. is passive not active. In Māori, verbs used in passive sentences usually take a passive ending and the agent of the action is preceded by e.
He rerenga hāngū tēnei: Ka tukuna atu e mātou he karere ki a Rua i Matahī, kia haere mai ki te āwhina i a mātou (TTT 1/5/1925:227). / This is a passive sentence: A message was sent by us to Rua at Matahī to come to assist us.
See also pīmuri whakahāngū
2. (modifier) dumb, quiet, not talkative, silent, mute, reserved, quiet.
He tangata wahangū ki te kāinga, engari ka puta ana ki wāhi kē, he waha papā (Te Ara 2013). / A person who keeps quiet at home but talks a lot when they’re out.
Synonyms: whakangū, hāngū, whakamōwai, memeke, rāhui, tāpui, whakatōngā, konekone, whakamārie, whakamāria, whakamārire, hū, rata, hūnguengue, mārire, rarata, maho, rangimārie, māhaki, māika, nohopuku, tōngā, nguengue, mū, noho ngutu kau, ngū, mōhū, whakakeke, haumūmū, whakaroau
3. (noun) dumbness, deaf mute.
Kua whakaorangia te kāpō, te turi, te wahangū, te pararūtiki, te kopa, te ngoio, te hūkiki, me ērā atu mate (TTT 1/7/1923:13). / Blindness, deafness, dumbness, paralysis, being crippled, asthma, epilepsy and other illnesses have been healed.
whakangū
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to silence, mute.
Nā ngā ture o mua tō tātou reo i whakangū ai i roto i ngā kura mō te kotahi rau rima tekau tau. / Because of former laws our language was silenced in schools for one hundred and fifty years.
Synonyms: wahangū, hāngū, nohopuku, haumūmūtanga, whakamūmū
2. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to neutralise.
Ko tā te pāpāhua he whakangū i te waikawa (RP 2009:310). / A base neutralises an acid (RP 2009:310).
