2. (loan) (noun) pin, brooch.
Ka nui ngā karaka, tīni wati, pine, rīngi me ērā atu taonga kōura, hiriwa (TW 31/3/1877:128). / There are a great number of clocks, watch chains, brooches, rings and other gold and silver jewelry.
pine pepa
1. (loan) (noun) paper clip.
Synonyms: kinipepa
kahika
1. (noun) white pine, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - a tall coniferous tree of mainly swampy ground, the leaves are scale-like and soft to touch.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
See also kahikatea
2. (noun) ancestor.
Ka mene ngā mōhio o ia waka, o ia waka, ka whiriwhiri ai i tētahi o koutou hei karaka tuhituhi, ā ka oti tērā, hei reira ka kauhau ai koutou i ngā kōrero mai rā anō i a Pō tuatahi, ā tae noa ki te tuatangata, ā ki ngā atua, ā ki ngā mea katoa i mōhiotia e ngā kahika, e ngā tūpuna (TW 10/8/1878:395). / The knowledgeable people of each canoe area should gather and select one of you to act as scribe, and when that's done that you talk over all the knowledge of the past, even from the time of the first Pō right until there was man and the atua, and everything that was known by the ancestors.
3. (noun) chief, leader.
I te tau 1945, ka whakataetae a Kāponga Erueti hei takawaenga mō te Rōpū Reipa ki a Matiu Rātana mō te rohe pōti Māori o Te Tai Hauāuru, engari he kahika tū kotahi a Kāponga (TTR 1998:55). / In 1945 Kāponga Erueti stood against Matiu Rātana for Western Māori as an independent Labour candidate, but that was the only time Kāponga stood as a leader.
Synonyms: manu taupua, kaitaki, kaitātaki, kaiārahi, kākākura, pouwhenua, kaiwhakataki, wheao, tumuaki, tumu whakarae, kaiarataki, kaikākāriki, ngārahu, ngārahu, tētēkura, uru, kaihautū, kaitakitaki, kaingārahu, manukura, kaiwhakanekeneke, tātāriki, tātāriki, amokapua, amokapua, amokura, amokura, ariki, ariki, ihorei, tātarariki, poutoko, poutoko, whakataka, whakataka, amorangi, amorangi, hautū, hautū
kahikatea
1. (noun) kahikatea, white pine, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - a tall coniferous tree of mainly swampy ground, the leaves are scale-like and soft to touch.
Ka titiro a Wairangi, ko ngā poupou o te whare he kōhurihuri kahikatea (JPS 1910:198). / Wairangi looked and noticed that the side posts of the house were of sapling white pine.
See also kahika
mataī
1. (noun) mataī, black pine, Prumnopitys taxifolia - a coniferous, long-lived native tree of lowland forest with small, narrow leaves arranged in two rows, hammer-marked trunk and pale timber. Ripe seed is a deep blue-black with a pale purplish bloom.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
miro
1. (noun) miro, brown pine, Prumnopitys ferruginea - a coniferous tree of lowland forest, with curved leaves arranged in two rows. Pinkish-purple berries are eaten by kererū.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
Synonyms: toromiro
rimu
1. (noun) seaweed - a general term.
Ka tahuri rātau ki te koko rimu hei takotoranga mō ngā pāua me ngā ika maroke kia mākūkū ai, koi kino i te rehu waitai (JPS 1913:111). / They proceeded to pull up seaweed as receptacles for the pāua and the dried fish so that they would be moist, and so that they should not be spoiled by the sea spray.
See also parengo, karengo, rimurapa, rimurimu
Synonyms: rimurimu
2. (noun) moss - a general term.
Synonyms: whareatua, pūkahukahu, kohukohu, pūkohu, pūkohukohu, kōpuru
3. rimu, red pine, Dacrydium cupressinum - a tall coniferous tree with dark brown flaking bark, scale-like prickly leaves and gracefully weeping branches.
He nui anō ngā rākau nunui i taua wā, he tōtara, he rimu, he kahika, he mataī, he miro, he kauri me ngā rākau pakupaku, he patatē, he hinahina he kaikōmako te paunga o te ngahere i te ahi (HTK 20/1/1894:5). / There were many giant trees at that time, tōtara, rimu, kahikatea, mataī, miro and kauri, with the small trees, patatē, whiteywood and kaikōmako, which were all destroyed in the fire.
Synonyms: puaka
2. (verb) to be scattered, separated.
Ka whiua e ia ngā huruhuru o te manu ki raro, ki te take o te rākau, koi hautea te huruhuru, koi katea haere i te ngāherehere, koi putu haere (W 1971:42). / He threw down the feathers of the bird to the base of the tree, lest they be scattered and spread around the forest in heaps.
Synonyms: tīrangaranga, tīrangorango, kūwawa, maheu, korara, mirara, pirara, mahora, marara, kaupararī, tīrara, tīrararara, papata, wawā, wāwā, whakawawā, makatea, mātiritiri, kaupāpari, kātohatoha, pahara, paihore, whakapirara, pīwawa
kōhau
1. (verb) to regret, feel sorry about, rue.
Nā runga i te kore i tika o te tiaki me te kore i tika o te whakanohonoho i ngā hōia Māori ka hoki mai nei ki te kāinga, i kōhau ai a Makitānara nāna nei rātou i tono kia haere ki te whawhai (TTR 1998:100). / Because of the lack of care and rehabilitation of the Māori soldiers when they returned home, Makitānara regretted that he sent them to the war.
2. (verb) to yearn, be wistful, pine for.
Koia tō tipuna, a Toi, i kōhau ai i Tiritiri o te moana (W 1971:124). / This is your ancestor, Toi, who yearned for the vast ocean.
Synonyms: pūkōnohinohi, whakamomori, konau, hiangongo, pūkōnohinohi
konau
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to yearn for, desire, pine for, fret for.
Kotahi tau ia e tatari ana, e konau ana, kātahi anō rāua ka moe (TTR 1998:120). / She was waiting for one year, pining, before they finally married.
Synonyms: pūkōnohinohi, whakamomori, kōhau, hiangongo, pūkōnohinohi, ingo, kōnohi, āwhitu, tameme, murimuri aroha, ingoingo, hōkaka, ohia, wawata, warawara, wara, muri aroha
