paraki
1. (loan) (noun) plank, sawn timber.
Tae rawa atu ngā poti ki te tango mai i a rātou i runga i ngā paraki pakaru kua mate rawa i te mātaotao i te hauaitu (TWMNT 10/3/1874:64). / When the boats finally arrived to rescue them from the broken planks they had died from the cold and hypothermia.
Synonyms: papa
parāki
1. (loan) (noun) barracks.
Kotahi te parāki hōia o taua tāone kua riro i te Ruihana (TW 3/11/1877:434) / One soldiers’ barracks in that town has been captured by the Russians.
Synonyms: wharenoho
paraki
1. (noun) smelt, common smelt, Retropinna retropinna, Stokell's smelt, Stokellia anisodon - slender small silvery endemic freshwater fish that move about in shoals and growing to about 165 mm long. Common smelt is found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand, but Stokell's smelt is only found in the lower reaches of rivers in the Marlborough-Canterbury coast. Spawn in the reaches of rivers in summer and autum then dying. Lavae washed to sea, some returning with whitebait, others returning only as adults.
paraki waha
1. (noun) frothy mouth, someone with nothing meaningful or truthful to say.
He paraki waha, he hāwatewate, he titotito (NP 2001:107). / A frothy mouth, lies and fabrications.
He paraki waha kau anō. He kōrerorero tonu te waha hei huna i te teka, i te kore mōhio (HJ 2017:13). / Just a frothy mouth. Talks continuously to conceal the lies and lack of knowledge.
