tae
1. (noun) hue, dye, colour, stain, pigment - not normally used before the names of colours.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 86; Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 162-165; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 63-64;)
Ko te tae o ngā hune, e rite ana ki te pūkohu, ā, he kōrangorango te āhua (HM 4/1998:4). / The colour of the down feathers is similar to moss and is mottled.
Ina ranua te kōwhai me te whero, ko te karaka ka hua mai (HJ 2012:98). / When yellow and red are mixed together, orange results.
Synonyms: kano
kamu
1. (verb) (-a) to eat, munch, close (the mouth), shut (the mouth).
Āta kamua te ika nā, mō te tūpono he poroiwi kei roto (PK 2008:203). / Eat that fish carefully in case you come across bones in it.
Synonyms: kaikai
2. (noun) taking of the pigment (of moko).
He pai nō ngā wai whakataerangi i tere ai te kamu; arā, te mau atu ki te kiri (JPS 1904:169). / Because the sap was good the uptake of the pigment was rapid; that is the permanency on the skin.
2. (noun) seed, bean, grain, ovule.
I te nuinga o te wā he iti, he mārō anō hoki te kano. / Usually a seed is small and hard.
2. (noun) ember, cinder.
Kāore anō nei i weto ngā ngārahu o te ahi i mura ai i ngā wā kua pahure (TTT 1/2/1924:11). / The embers of the fire that blazed in past times had not yet been extinguished.
3. (noun) charcoal, black pigment.
I pania te kanohi ki te ngārahu, ki te kōkōwai rānei (M 2004:62). / The face was smeared with charcoal or red ochre.
4. (noun) leader, commander, military leader.
Ko Tūpaea te ngārahu o Ngāi Te Rangi i te tukinga i Maketū (TTR 1990:13). / Tūpaea was the military leader of Ngāi Te Rangi at the attack at Maketū.
Synonyms: manu taupua, kaitaki, kaitātaki, kaiārahi, kākākura, pouwhenua, kaiwhakataki, wheao, tumuaki, tumu whakarae, kaiarataki, kaikākāriki, tētēkura, uru, kaihautū, kaitakitaki, kaingārahu, manukura, kaiwhakanekeneke, tātāriki, amokapua, amokura, ariki, ihorei, kahika, tātarariki, poutoko, whakataka, amorangi, hautū
5. (noun) military parade.
Nō te 10 o ngā rā o tēnei marama o Hūrae i tae mai te waea i Rānana e kī ana i tū tētahi ngārahu nui i te aroaro o te Kuīni e rima tekau mā waru mano o ngā hōia i tūria i taua ngārahu o te rongomau (KO 18/7/1887:3). / On the 10th of this month of July the telegraph message arrived from London saying that a military parade was held before the Queen and 58,000 soldiers stood at that peace parade.
6. (noun) war dance - haka in which the men are armed and jump up and down. Performed by the war party before going into battle, in front of elders and experienced warriors who judged by their performance whether they were ready to go into battle. Also called tūtū ngārehu, tūtū waewae and whakatū waewae.
Ko ngā Māori i whakaritea hei hunga pupuhi i hui tahanga kau ki tētahi wāhi o te tāone, kei ngā tikihope anake te kahu, ā tūria ana te ngārahu ki reira (TWMNT 13/2/1877:28). / The Māori who were organised to take part in the firing assembled at place in the town without clothing except round the loins, and performed the war dance there.
See also tūtū ngārahu
2. (noun) melanin -the pigment that gives human skin, hair, and eyes their color. Dark-skinned people have more melanin in their skin than light-skinned people have.
pukepoto
1. (noun) dark blue, cobalt blue, navy, dark-blue earth - used as a pigment.
He momo uku te taioma, ka tahuna, ka pehua, ka konatua ki te hinu kia puta te momo hinu tā, kīia ai ko taioma. Waihoki, tērā te pukepoto, he hinu kikorangi te tae (Te Ara 2012). / Taioma is a type of clay that was created by burning and pulverising, then mixing it with oil so that a type of paint, called taioma, resulted. Likewise, pukepoto was a cobalt blue colour.
Synonyms: tauā moana, ōrangiuri
hōrua
1. (noun) red ochre, burnt kōkōwai - used as a pigment.
Ka tīmata te whawhai i te putanga atu o tētahi toa ki te whakawai i te taniwha kia puta i tōna rua mā te hoatu hōrua ki a ia (Te Ara 2014). / The fighting began when a warrior enticed the monster to emerge from its lair by offering it red ochre dye.
Synonyms: karamea, kōkōwai, tākou, hōrū, pōrakaraka
