tāua
1. (noun) grandmother, old woman, grandparent, old man.
Ko Huriwhenua tonu tōna ingoa whakahua ki ngā pōua me ngā tāua o Ngāi Tahu (TTR 1994:100). / Older people of Ngāi Tahu continued to call him Huriwhenua.
Synonyms: hākuikui, ngoingoi, kui, kuikui, hākui, rūruhi, ruahine, ruānuku, kaumātua, pou, koeke, pēperekōu, koroheke, tauheke, koroua, kokoro, nehe, korokoroua
pou
1. (noun) sir, madam, grandad, grandma, old lady, old man - term of address to an elderly person and shortened form of pōua.
3. (noun) pūkeko, purple swamp hen, Porphyrio porphyrio - a deep blue-coloured bird with a black head and upperparts, a white undertail and a scarlet bill that inhabits wetlands, estuaries and damp pasture areas.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 166;)
He manu hauwarea noa te pākura (pūkeko ki ētahi) (TTT 1/9/1927:657). / The swamp hen (called a pūkeko by some) is a lean bird.
Synonyms: tangata tawhito, pākura
ahungarua
1. (personal noun) elderly, old (of people), approaching old age.
Kua roa kē māua e whakatakoto mahere ana, e whiriwhiri ana mō āhea rā māua toro atu ai i a koe i te rongonga o māua i te hē haere koe i ngā ākinga a ahungarua, a mātāpūpututanga (HM 4/2009:4). / He and I were planning and deciding for a long time when we would visit you because we had heard that you were going downhill in your approaching old age and advancing years.
Synonyms: waikauere, korokoroua, pūkeko, tahito, tawhito, kaumātua, tūārangi, aweko, tūpakeke, tuaukiuki, koroua, mātāpuputu
2. (noun) elderly person, old person, person approaching old age.
Kua tae mai ahau ki te ao o te ahungarua, o te mātāpuputu. / I have arrived to the world of the elderly, of the older generation.
Synonyms: wheteke, taringa huruhuru, pōua, tūnohunohu
3. (modifier) underscore (computers).
Ka whakakapi rawa a Excel i ngā pūāhua muhu i ia ingoa mā tētahi pūāhua ahungarua (_) (LP 2017). / Excel will permanently replace invalid characters in each name with an underscore (_) character (LP 2017).
4. (noun) underscore (computers).
Kāore te ingoa e tīmata ana ki te reta, ki te ahungarua rānei (LP 2017). / The name does not begin with a letter or an underscore (LP 2017).
pēperekōu
1. (noun) elderly woman, elderly man, elder.
Ko tāku e whakapae ana e kōrero kē ana rātou mō te hunga pēperekōu kaua i tā te Māori titiro ki tēnei mea, ki te kaumātua (HM 4/1998). / My criticism is that they are talking about geriatrics, not about elders the way that Māori view them.
Synonyms: hākuikui, ngoingoi, kui, kuikui, hākui, rūruhi, ruahine, korokoroua, ruānuku, pou, koeke, kaumātua, koroheke, tauheke, koroua, kokoro, tāua, nehe
nehe
1. (location) ancient times.
Ko tētahi kōrero i rongo anō mātou i te hui, ko te kōrero mō tētahi tikanga o nehe (HM 2/2009:10). / An account we heard at the conference was about a custom from ancient times.
See also neherā
2. (personal noun) elderly man, elderly women - used of elderly people, often as a term of address.
I whakamārama mai a nehe mā i piki ētahi mā te toi huarewa ki te toi o ngā rangi, arā ki tō runga rawa o ngā rangi tūhāhā (TTT 1/8/1923:6). / The old men and women explained that some climbed via the suspended way to the uppermost heaven, that is the the highest of the spaced heavens.
Synonyms: pou, koroheke, tauheke, koroua, kokoro, tāua, korokoroua, ruānuku, kaumātua, pēperekōu, koeke
ruahine
1. (verb) to become elderly, grow old - of a woman.
I a Te Puea ka ruahine haere, ka pupū ake te wehi o te rangatahi i a rātou e mātakitaki ana i a ia e whakahaere ana i ngā take a te marae (TTR 1996:52). / As Te Puea grew older the young ones were in awe of her while they were watching her directing the affairs of the marae.
3. (noun) woman of importance used in certain ceremonies for the removal of tapu, e.g. house openings - normally this would be the eldest female from a family of rank.
I te patunga i ngā tautīaki, me te paepae-tapu-nui-a-Tāne tae noa ki te pikitanga a te ruahine i te paepae-tapu-nui-a-Tāne; me te whakatuwheratanga o te tatau; me te pikitanga i te paepae poto a te ruahine: kāore i te eke ngā karakia e hāngai ai te piki i ngā paepae e rua me te whakatuwhera o te tatau (TTT 1/5/1930:2055). / From the striking of the upright posts beneath the front bargeboards of the meeting house and the sacred threshold of Tāne including the climbing over of the sacred threshold of Tāne by the ruahine; the opening of the door; the climbing over of the door sill by the ruahine; the ritual chants used were not appropriate for stepping over the two thresholds and the opening of the door.
2. (modifier) as an elderly woman.
I haere kōtiro atu ki te tahatū o te rangi, nāwai nāwai ā, ka hoki rūruhi mai ki te wā kāinga (HJ 2015:117). / She went off to the horizon as a girl, and after a long time she returned home as an elderly woman.
korokoroua
1. (verb) to be elderly, old.
Ko tētahi matemate tēnei o te Māori ko ngā mate a te Pākehā. I mua, kāore he rewharewha i pā ki te Māori, me te pīwa, me te mītara, me te rūmātiki, me te huangō, me te karapu, me te tini o ō te Pākehā mate, ko tō te Māori mate kia korokoroua rawa ka mate ai (White 13 2001). / This is one problem of the Māori, the diseases the Pākehā brought. Before they came, Influenza, fever, measles, rheumatism, asthma and venereal disease did not affect the Māori. The Māori problem was when they were very old then they died.
2. (modifier) old, elderly.
3. (noun) elderly man, old man, elder, grandfather, granduncle.
2. (noun) elderly man, old man, elder, grandfather, granduncle.
E rua ngā koroua kei tōku kāinga tonu nei kua kore e puta ngā penihana, he tungāne, he tuahine ko rāua, tino tika ana rāua mō te penihana (TP 5/1903:10). / There are two elderly people in my own village who have not received their pensions, a brother and sister, and they definitely qualify for the pension.
Synonyms: pou, koroheke, tauheke, kokoro, tāua, nehe, korokoroua, ruānuku, kaumātua, pēperekōu, koeke
kui
1. (noun) grandma, old woman, elderly woman - a term of address for an older woman, especially an elderly woman.
Kei taku kākā tarahae, kei taku manu tīoriori kua mū nei koe i roto i te rā nei, me mihi taurangi noa rā te mihi ki a koe e kui, haere rā, haere atu rā! (HM 2/1994:2). / O my leader, my songbird, you have become silent now and we pay tribute to you, my elderly lady, farewell!
Synonyms: hākuikui, ngoingoi, tāua, kuikui, hākui, rūruhi, ruahine, pēperekōu
2. (personal noun) grandma, old woman, elderly woman.
Heoi anō, kei te haerea, kei te nōhia tonuhia te wao e Ngāi Tūhoe, e whai tonu ana i ngā mahi a kui mā, a koro mā (Te Ara 2016). / However, the bush is still travelled and inhabited by Tūhoe and they still follow the activities of their grandmothers and grandfathers.
mate hirinaki
1. (verb) die of old age.
Ka kī rā ia, "Waiho taku reo kia mate rangatira", arā, kia mate hirinaki, kia mate koeo, kia mate tara-ā-whare engari kia kaua e riro mā te kōhuru rawa e mate ai! (TTTT 2006:12) / He said, "Let my language die a noble death", that is, let it die of old age, of natural causes, but don't allow it be be murdered!
mātāpuputu
1. (modifier) elderly, old (of people), of advancing years.
Nā tēnei kāwai ōna i mana ai ia ki te noho tahi me ērā o ngā amorangi mātāpuputu o Ngāi Tahu, i ā rātou rūnanga (TTR 1994:38). / Because of his ancestral lines he was entitled him to share in the deliberations of the senior leaders of Ngāi Tahu.
Synonyms: tuaukiuki, koroua, waikauere, korokoroua, pūkeko, tawhito, tūpakeke, kaumātua, tūārangi, aweko, ahungarua, tahito
2. (noun) elderly people, older generation, old folk, senior citizens.
Ka oho rā ngā mātāpuputu, ka noho toheriri ki te tū taikaha a ngā taitama nei, ā, nāwai, nāwai, tere tonu te ngaro atu o taua rōpū nei (TTR 1996:138). / The elders were taken aback and hostile with the assertiveness of the young men and after some time that group quickly disappeared.
Synonyms: poupou
3. (verb) to be infertile.
Mā taua pī nui e kawe te puehu o tētahi o ngā pua ki tētahi, kātahi ka tika ōna pua, arā ngā purapura, ka tupu. Ā ka kore e pērātia ka pakoko ngā pua (KO 8/8/1890:4). / That large bee will take the pollen of one of the flowers to another one, then its flower will be fertilized, that is the seed, and it will grow. If this doesn't happen the seeds will be infertile.
4. (verb) to be sunken, gaunt.
He hanga aroha tō rātou āhua: tawhito ana ngā kākahu, piko ana ngā tuarā, pakoko ana ngā kanohi (TP 1/6/1900:7). / Their appearance was pitiful: the clothes were old, their backs were bent and their faces were gaunt.
5. (noun) dryness.
6. (noun) image, statue, effigy.
Ka tāraia e Tōpia te pakoko o Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua ki te poutokomanawa 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.
7. (noun) an armless figurehead of a canoe.
E whā ngā waka nei, he waka toiera, he waka pītau, he waka pakoko, he waka tētē (TP 4/1911:10). / These four canoes were: a war canoe with a carved stern and stem, a canoe with a figurehead, a canoe with an armless figurehead, and a canoe with a figurehead without arms and legs.
8. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides and other species of bully - stocky fish with large heads, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. Giant bully is very dark, often black with irregular, golden olive lines on cheeks and a linear series of small, golden speckles on each flank. An endemic fish widespread in esturine and coastal waters of the North and South Islands. Rarely moves more than 2 km inland. Emerges at night to feed.
See also kōkopu
9. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
2. (noun) old person, elderly man.
Ko Huriwhenua tonu tōna ingoa whakahua ki ngā pōua me ngā tāua o Ngāi Tahu (TTR 1994:100). / Older people of Ngāi Tahu continued to call him Huriwhenua.
Synonyms: wheteke, taringa huruhuru, ahungarua, tūnohunohu
3. (noun) grandfather.
Tahi: Kei te mōhio koe ki te kaumātua rā? Rua: Āe, ko tōku nā pōua tērā (HJ 2015:215). / Tahi: Do you know that elder over there? Rua: Yes, that's my grandfather.
ruahinetanga
1. (noun) old age (of a woman), menopause.
Ko te mate marama ngā āhuatanga ā-marama i te tinana o te wahine i tana ekenga ki te pūhuruhurutanga, ā, tae noa atu ki te ruahinetanga (RP 2009:282). / The menstrual cycle is the monthly changes which take place in a woman's body from puberty through to menopause.
Synonyms: mātāpūpututanga, koroheketanga, kaumātuatanga, rāroa, pēperekōutanga, hirinaki, ngā taru o Tura
