2. (numeral) ninth - when used with this meaning it is preceded by te and followed by o.
I te iwa o Māehe ka uru mai a Kāwana Kerei mā runga i te kaipuke, i te Castor (TTR 1990:269). / On 9 March Governor Grey entered on the ship Castor.
Synonyms: tuaiwa
3. (numeral) grouping of nine.
Ko ia te Māori tuatahi i riro nāna te tari i whakahaere, ā, mau ana i a ia te tūranga nei mō te iwa tau (TTR 2000:187). / He was the first Māori to head the department and he held the position for nine years.
4. (numeral) combines with other words to form other numbers.
Ko te tini o ngā reo o te ao nei e tae ana ki te rua mano e iwa tekau mā whā (KO 15/8/1885:8). / The many languages of the world number two thousand and ninety four.
5. (noun) ninth month of the Māori lunar calendar - approximately equivalent to February.
Ko whiti ake ai te iwa o ngā marama, ka puta mai te taua puretumu a Ngāti Hauā ki Parahaki, ki te kāinga i patua ai te tūpāpaku (JPS 1990:19). / The ninth month had passed when Ngāti Hauā's party seeking redress appeared at Parahaki, at the village where the victim was killed.
whiri pekapeka
1. (noun) flat rope of nine strands.
Synonyms: tari-karakia, tuapuku, tuamaka, tari-kākāriki, rauru, whiri papa, whiri kawe, kārure, tōpuku, whiri pāraharaha, whiri taurakeke, whiri iwituna, tātoru
patē
1. (noun) seven finger, Schefflera digitata - a small forest tree which has hand-shaped leaves with fine teeth and three to nine 'fingers'. Flowers in large drooping stalks. A soft wood used in making fire. Found from North Island to Stewart Island in damp parts of the forest and along stream banks. Also called patatē.
whetūao
1. (noun) planet - nine planets are in orbit around the sun and Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were known to Māori astonomers in ancient times.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 165-180;)
Ko Kōpū te whetūao noho tuarua mai i te rā, ko Papatūānuku te tuatoru (PK 2008:1174). / Venus is the second planet from the sun and Earth is the third.
See also whetū mārama
Synonyms: aorangi, whetū mārama
whetū mārama
1. (noun) planet - nine planets are in orbit around the sun and Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were known to Māori astonomers in ancient times.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 165-180;)
Ko Takero, ko Kōpū, ko te Ao, ko Matawhero, ko Rangawhenua, ko Pareārau ngā whetū mārama i mōhiotia ai e ngā tohunga kōkōrangi Māori o neherā (PK 2008:1174). / Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are the planets that were known by Māori astronomers in ancient times.
Penfold, Merimeri
1. (personal name) CNZOM (1924- 2014) Ngāti Kurī. Lecturer in Māori language at Auckland University for more than 30 years from which she has received an honorary Doctorate. She was a member of the Māori Education Foundation, the University of Auckland Marae Establishment Committee and an executive member of the Broadcasting Commission from 1989 to 1991. Dr Penfold was also a co-member of the editorial team that worked on the seventh edition of Williams Dictionary of the Maori Language. She has translated nine of Shakespeare's sonnets, Ngā Waiata Aroha a Hekepia. She was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori in 2001.
2. (noun) moa - large extinct flightless birds of nine subspecies endemic to Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Titiro ana ngā Pākehā ki te nui o aua takahanga, me te mataratanga o te hīkoinga. Ka mea rātou, he moa pea i roto i ngā awa kōwhatu o taua whenua e noho ana (TH 1/7/1861:4). / The Pākehā looked at the size of those footprints and the length of the strides. They said that there were probably moa living in the rocky valleys of that land.
aorangi
1. (noun) planet - a modern word. Nine planets are in orbit around the sun and Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were known to Māori astonomers in ancient times. .
Ko te ingoa o te Māori mō te huinga o te rā, te marama, ngā aorangi, ngā whetū, ngā kāhui whetū, ko te whānau mārama (Te Ara 2013). / The Māori name for the sun, moon, planets, stars and constellations and stars is the 'whānau mārama' (family of light).
See also whetūao
Synonyms: whetūao, whetū mārama
kōtētē
1. (noun) seven finger, Schefflera digitata - a small forest tree which has hand-shaped leaves with fine teeth and three to nine 'fingers'. Flowers in large drooping stalks. A soft wood used in making fire. Found from North Island to Stewart Island in damp parts of the forest and along stream banks.
patete
1. (noun) seven finger, Schefflera digitata - a small forest tree which has hand-shaped leaves with fine teeth and three to nine 'fingers'. Flowers in large drooping stalks. A soft wood used in making fire. Found from North Island to Stewart Island in damp parts of the forest and along stream banks.
wētā punga
1. (noun) giant wētā, Deinacrida spp. - the nine different species are all endangered. They eat leaves and have five to seven pairs of big spines on their back legs and a saddle-like shield on the neck wider than its head.
See also wētā
hoko-
1. (particle) Prefix used with numbers from one to nine to mean 'multiplied by 10', especially if followed by takitahi (e.g. hokowhā takitahi = 40). However, if tōpū is added to the number instead of takitahi it doubles the number (e.g. hokowhā tōpū = 80). Often tōpū is omitted.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 160;)
Ka hokowhitu ngā pīhopa nunui kua huri ki te Katorika (TP 5/1911:11). / A hundred and forty senior bishops have converted to Catholicism.
Ka haere mai ngā rangatira o Ngā Puhi me Ngāti Whātua, ka tae mai ki Kāwhia, ka uru a Te Rauparaha, me Te Rako, me Te Pēhi, me ērā atu rangatira o Ngāti Toa, hokowhitu tōpū rātou. Ko Ngā Puhi kotahi rau tōpū (TP 3/1913:4). / When the chiefs of Ngā Puhi and Ngāti Whātua came and arrived at Kāwhia, Te Rauparaha, Te Rako, Te Pēhi and those other chiefs of Ngāti Toa joined them. They were a hundred and forty and Ngā Puhi were two hundred.
See also hokowhitu
Matariki
1. (personal noun) Pleiades, Messier 45 - an open cluster of many stars in Te Kāhui o Matariki, with at least nine stars visible to the naked eye. The brightest star in the centre of the cluster, also known as Matariki (Alcyone), married Rehua (Antares) and is the mother of the other eight stars of the Pleiades known to Māori. The other eight stars are: Tupuārangi (Atlas), Waipunarangi (Electra), Waitī (Maia), Ururangi (Merope), Tupuānuku (Pleione), Waitā (Taygeta), Pōhutukawa (Sterope) and Hiwa-i-te-rangi (Calaeno). The first appearance before sunrise of Matariki in the north-eastern sky, in the Tangaroa phase of the lunar month, indicates the beginning of the Māori year - about mid-June - and is the cause for celebrations. Matariki disappears at the end of the Māori year and traditionally this was also a reason for celebration with some iwi. During this time when Matariki was absent from the sky, she was said to visit four places, each for seven nights, Maukahau, Tārarau-ātea, Papa-whakatangitangi and Tītore-māhu-tū. Matariki is a truncated version of the name Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea (the eyes of the atua Tāwhirimātea). Matariki is associated with good health and wellbeing.
Ko te putanga mai o Matariki te tohu mō te marama tuatahi, ko ngā ingoa hoki ēnei o ngā marama katoa: Te Tahi o Pipiri, Te Rua o Takurua,Te Toru Here o Pipiri, Te Whā o Mahuru, Te Rima o Kōpū, Te Ono o Whitiānaunau, Te Whitu o Hakihea, Te Waru o Rehua, Te Iwa o Rūhi-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru o Poutū-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru mā tahi, Te Ngahuru ma rua (TP 1/3/1901:6). / The appearance of Pleiades is the sign for the first month and these are the names of all the months: The first is Pipiri, the second is Takurua, the third is Here o Pipiri, the fourth is Mahuru, the fifth is Kōpū, the sixth is Whiti-ānaunau, the seventh is Hakihea, the eighth is Rehua, the ninth is Rūhi-te-rangi, the tenth is Poutūterangi, the eleventh and twelth months.
Mō te marama o Mei, arā o Te Hakiharatua ki tā te Māori, o te tau 1922: Ko Matariki te whetū kei te ārahi i tēnei marama, he wehenga tau ki tā te Māori whakahaere (TTT 1/5/1922:13). / For the month of May, that is Te Hakiharatua according to the Māori, of the year 1922: The Pleiades is the star that heralds this month and divides the year according to the Māori system.
See also Huihui-o-Matariki, Te, Tupuārangi, Waipunarangi, Waitī, Ururangi, Tupuānuku, Waitā, Tātai-o-Matariki
Synonyms: Huihui-o-Matariki, Te, Tātai-o-Matariki
patatē
1. (noun) seven finger, Schefflera digitata - a small forest tree which has hand-shaped leaves with fine teeth and three to nine 'fingers'. Flowers in large drooping stalks. A soft wood used in making fire. Found from North Island to Stewart Island in damp parts of the forest and along stream banks.
Koirā a ia i kī ai: 'Māku anō e hanga tōku nei whare. Ko te tāhuhu he hīnau ko ngā poupou he māhoe, patatē. Me whakatupu ki te hua o te rengarenga, me whakapakari ki te hua o te kawariki.' (TTR 1994:134). / That's why he said: 'I myself shall build my house. The ridge-pole will be of hīnau and the supporting posts of māhoe and patatē. Raise the people with the fruit of the rengarenga, strengthened them with the fruits of the kawariki.'
