hakoko
1. (verb) to be bent, concave, curved, twisted.
Ka hakoko te hihi aho, e whakawhiti ana mai i te hau takiwā ki te wai. Ka hakoko te hihi aho nā te mea he pōturi ake te ngaru aho i roto i te wai, tēnā i te hau takiwā (RP 2009:183). / A ray of light bends when travelling from air into water. It bends because the light wave travels slower in water than it does in air.
2. (modifier) be bent, concave, curved, twisted.
Me pereti hakoko, kia kore ai e maringi te wairanu (PK 2008:68). / It should be a curved plate so that the gravy doesn't spill.
3. (noun) cramp.
4. (noun) adult muttonbird, adult sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus, - a grey-faced petrel with a long slender bill hooked at the tip and silvery-grey flash on the underwings, which nests in underground burrows.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 14-16;)
2. (noun) muttonbird, sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus, young of the sooty shearwater - a grey-faced petrel with a long slender bill hooked at the tip and silvery-grey flash on the underwings, which nests in underground burrows.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 14-16;)
E rua ngā mahinga tītī: ko te nanao ki te pī i te rua; ko te rama pī ka puea i o rātou rua (Te Ara 2011). / There are two stage in harvesting muttonbirds (sooty shearwaters): nanao, when chicks are extracted from their burrows; and rama, when the chicks are caught by torchlight when they come out of their burrows.
manu
1. (noun) bird - any winged creature including bats, cicadas, butterflies, etc.
Ki te kore he kai, kua riro mā tētahi o ngā tohunga e karakia, kua rere mai he kai ki runga ki te waka. He ika, he manu me ētahi atu tūmomo kai mata (HP 1991:9). / If there was no food, one of the tohunga would say a ritual chant and food would fly onto the vessel - fish, birds and other types of raw food.
2. (noun) kite.
Ka eke ki runga, ka whakahakahaka iho ngā manu rā, ka piki anō whakarunga ngā manu rā, aua tonu ake, ka tiu anō ki runga ki te pā (JPS 1905:76). / Those kites ascended to a height, and then descended, then climbed upwards again until they were a long way up, and swooped again over the pā.
Synonyms: manu tū, pākau, manu aute, manu tukutuku, horewai
3. (noun) person held in high esteem - a figurative use usually qualified by an epithet, e.g. manukura (leader in council, leader).
Synonyms: manukura
4. (noun) family muttonbirding territory - each muttonbirding island is divided into a number of manu, with boundaries defined by geographic features, trees, etc.
2. (noun) shout.
3. (noun) grey-faced petrel, Pterodroma macroptera, northern muttonbird, great-winged petrel - a native seabird with blackish-brown plumage except for a pale grey forehead, sides of the face, chin and throat. Has a stout black bill and black legs and feet.
Ka mutu, ki tā ngā mātauranga whaipara tangata, he hōrapa te noho o te ōi ki Aotearoa i mua i te noho tangata (Te Ara 2011). / What's more, according to archaeologists petrels were widely distributed throughout prehistoric New Zealand.
