pea
1. (loan) (noun) pear.
E takatū ana mātau ki te hoko mai i ngā Māori i ngā huarākau katoa, arā, paramu, tere, pea, pītiti, āporo, kuini, wāina, me ērā atu tini huarākau (TJ 18/1/1898:9). / We are preparing to buy from Māori all kinds of fruit, that is, plums, cherries, pears, peaches, apples, quinces, grapes and the many other kinds of fruit.
2. (loan) (noun) pearl.
He nui anō te whai rawa o te iwi kiri pango i te koura, i te hiriwa, i te peara me ngā kōhatu utu nui me te whenua (TPH 15/8/1900:2). / The blacks have great wealth in gold, silver, pearls and precious stones and land.
mīkoikoi
1. (noun) New Zealand iris, native iris, Libertia ixioides and Libertia grandiflora - a native plant seen beside tracks and streams. Leaves turn yellow to orange in full sun and are smooth, stiff and long, growing in fans forming a tuft. Flowers are white and three-petalled while the fruit is yellow pear-shaped capsules.
Synonyms: tūrutu, tūkāuki, mānga-a-Huripapa
tarāpunga
1. (noun) red-billed seagull, Larus novaehollandiae scopulius, black-billed gull, Larus bulleri - a grey-and-white gull found mainly on the coast, with back and wings pearly-grey except for black wingtips with small white patches. The red-billed also has red legs, while the black-billed gull has black legs and a longer, thinner black bill.
(Te Pihinga Study Guide (Ed. 1): 2;)
akakaikū
1. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: pōhue, kūpapa, kōhia, kohe, kāhia, kaimanu, akatororaro, akakūkū, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
pōhue
1. (noun) convolvulus, bindweed, New Zealand bindweed, Calystegia sepium - a herbaceous perennial that twines around other plants to a height of up to 2-4 m. Leaves are arranged spirally, simple, pointed at the tip and arrowhead shaped, 5-10 cm long and 3-7 cm broad. Flowers are produced from late spring to the end of summer. The open flowers are trumpet-shaped, 3-7 cm diameter, white, or pale pink with white stripes. A name given to several climbing plants.
Ko te rite ia kei te whare pakaru e awhitia nei e te pōhue, matomato tonu, ngotongoto tonu, ki te titiro atu, ko roto ia he pirau, he popopo (TTT 1/3/1923:195). / It is but a ruined building wreathed with ivy, all lush and fresh to look at, but rotten inside.
2. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
E kī ana, i mua i pai te kai a te Māori, he kūmera, he aruhe, he pōhue, he manu, he kaingārā, he tuna, he mātaitai; e mea ana anō i kaha rawa te tangata i tērā wā. Ināianei, kua mahue te aruhe, me te pōhue kua kore te kaingārā, kua iti haere te manu, kua iti haere hoki te ngaki o te kūmera, kua tahuri te tangata ki te kānga piro (TH 1/7/1859:2). / It is said that in former times the diet of the Māori consisted of kūmara, fern root, New Zealand passionfruit, birds, yellow moray eels, eels and seafood; and it was also said that people were stronger at that time. Now, the fern root has been abandoned along with the New Zealand passionfruit and the yellow moray eels is gone, birds have decreased and the cultivation of kūmara has also dwindled and people have turned to fermented corn.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: kūpapa, kōhia, kohe, kāhia, kaimanu, akakaikū, akatororaro, akakūkū, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
3. (noun) wire vine, Muehlenbeckia complexa - a native twining stem climber found behind sand dunes and on rocky ground. It has small, round to heart-shaped alternating leaves. The flowers are inconspicuous and the fruit is a black, three-angled seed in a fleshy, ice-coloured cup.
mānga-a-Huripapa
1. (noun) New Zealand iris, native iris, Libertia ixioides - a native plant seen beside tracks and streams. Leaves turn yellow to orange in full sun and are smooth, stiff and long, growing in fans forming a tuft. Flowers are white and three-petalled while the fruit is yellow pear-shaped capsules.
tūkāuki
1. (noun) New Zealand iris, native iris, Libertia ixioides - a native plant seen beside tracks and streams. Leaves turn yellow to orange in full sun and are smooth, stiff and long, growing in fans forming a tuft. Flowers are white and three-petalled while the fruit is yellow pear-shaped capsules.
See also mīkoikoi
Synonyms: tūrutu, mīkoikoi, mānga-a-Huripapa
kuini
1. (loan) (noun) quince - a hard acid pear-shaped fruit.
E takatū ana mātau ki te hoko mai i ngā Māori i ngā huarākau katoa, arā, paramu, tere, pea, pītiti, āporo, kuini, wāina, me ērā atu tini huarākau (TJ 18/1/1898:9). / We are preparing to buy from Māori all kinds of fruit, that is, plums, cherries, pears, peaches, apples, quinces, grapes and the many other kinds of fruit.
See also kuinihi
Synonyms: kuinihi
akakūkū
1. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: pōhue, kūpapa, kōhia, kohe, kāhia, kaimanu, akakaikū, akatororaro, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
2. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: pōhue, kūpapa, kōhia, kohe, kaimanu, akakaikū, akatororaro, akakūkū, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
kaimanu
1. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: pōhue, kūpapa, kōhia, kohe, kāhia, akakaikū, akatororaro, akakūkū, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
kohe
1. kohekohe, Dysoxylum spectabile - a tree with 3-4 opposite pairs of dark, shiny leaves. Flowers in early winter every second year, with long drooping white sprays which grow directly from the trunk or branches. Fruit is a round green capsule which splits open to reveal an orange-red centre.
Ka kite rāua i te tūī e kai ana; te kohoho i te kohe (JPS 1941:125). / They saw the tūī feeding on the fruit of the kohe tree.
See also kohekohe
2. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: pōhue, kūpapa, kōhia, kāhia, kaimanu, akakaikū, akatororaro, akakūkū, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
2. (verb) to remain quiet.
Nō te tekau mā waru o ngā rā o Mei kūpapa ana tētahi rangapū hōia (e toru tekau takitahi rātou) i tētahi taha o te awa (TWM 13/6/1863:2). / On the 18 May a company of soldiers (there were thirty of them) were waiting quietly on one side of the river.
3. (verb) to be neutral (in a quarrel), collaborate, collude.
Ko Mangakāhia te māngai mō te hunga kāore i kūpapa ki ngā hiahia o te kāwanatanga koroni (TTR 1994:52). / Mangakāhia represented those who would not collaborate with the wishes of the colonial government.
4. (modifier) at a low level, near the ground, above the surface.
E rere ana tēnā manu ki runga riro, mahue noa iho te kapua. Ko au ia e rere kūpapa ana i te mata o te whenua (TKM.MM 30/3/1863:22). / That bird flies very high leaving the clouds below. I fly close to the surface of the land.
5. (noun) collaborator, ally, fifth column - a term that came to be applied to Māori who sided with Pākehā opposition or the Government. There has been a shift from a general meaning of neutrality to the modern use, which now sometimes has derogative connotations, similar to such terms as 'turncoat', 'traitor', 'quizling' and 'Uncle Tom'.
Ka whakatika atu a Te Whitimoa me ngā hōia Pākehā, me te rau kotahi o Te Arawa, me ngā kūpapa kotahi rau e whā tekau, ko Te Keepa te meiha o aua kūpapa (TWM 22/4/1869). / Whitmore and the Pākehā soldiers set off with one hundred Te Arawa and one hundred and forty allies led by Te Keepa who was the major of those collaborators.
Ko te tikanga ake o te kūpapa ko ērā iwi i tautoko i te kāwanatanga i ngā pakanga whenua o te rautau 1800. Nō konā kua ara mai anō tērā kupu mō te hunga Māori e haukoti ana i ngā hiahia o te iwi Māori (Te Ara 2015). / The original meaning of the word ‘kūpapa’ was for those tribes that supported the government in the 19th-century land wars. Subsequently it has been revived as a term for Māori who act against the interests of Māori in general.
6. (noun) New Zealand passionfruit, Passiflora tetrandra - native tendril climber with alternating, pointed, shiny leaves, white flowers smaller than the garden passionfruit and orange-coloured, pear-shaped fruit.
See also kōhia
Synonyms: pōhue, kōhia, kohe, kāhia, kaimanu, akakaikū, akatororaro, akakūkū, akakaikūkū, akakaimanu
