kōruarua
1. (verb) (-tia) to make a hole, make a pit.
Kua kōruaruatia ngā rerenga wai i te kaukautanga a ngā kāhui erepata, ā, okeoke noa ana ngā ōkiha i roto i aua kōruarua (TWMNT 10/5/1874:107). / The water course had been made into a hole from the swimming of the herds of elephants, and the oxen struggled in those holes.
Synonyms: whakaumu
kōputaputa
1. (stative) be pitted, full of holes.
He nui tā koutou i whakatō ai, he iti tā koutou i mau mai ai; e kai ana, heoi kāhore e mākona; e inu ana, te ngata i te wai; e kākahu ana i ō koutou, te mahana tētahi; e riro ana i te kaimahi te moni mō tana mahi, ā whaowhina ana e ia ki roto ki te pūtea kōputaputa (PT Hakai 1:6). / You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you are satisfied; you drink but are not satisfied; you are clothed, but none are warm; and the worker earns money for his labour and he puts it into a bag with holes.
Synonyms: putaputa
kōrua
1. (noun) hole, pit.
He kōrua kei te mutunga, he mea keri kia waru putu te hōhonu, tekau mā rua putu te roa me te whānui (TWMNT 10/3/1874:61). / At the end a pit was dug eight feet deep, and twelve feet in length and breadth.
See also rua
Synonyms: kororua, mārua, rua, kōruarua, pārua, poka, pōpokorua, pokopokorua, pokorua, hāpoki, pokere, waro
2. (noun) pit, hollow, depression in the earth, bowl - e.g. for placing eels caught with a bob or for planting taro.
Kātahi ka whakarake tēnā me tēnā i tōna wāhi noho, me te keri mai i tētahi momo pārua mōna i te oneone (HM 4/1998:5). / Then each one clears his spot to live, and digs a type of bowl for himself in the ground.
Synonyms: kororua, mārua, rua, kōruarua, kōrua, poka, pōpokorua, pokopokorua, pokorua, hāpoki, pokere, waro
poka
1. (verb) (-ia,-ina) to make a hole in or through, bore, pierce, cut out, appear, poke.
Kei tētehi wāhi o tēnei marae tētehi rārangi pouaka tekau mā tahi, ā he mea poka te kōhao ki te taupoki o ia pouaka, o ia pouaka hei tukunga moni iho ki roto (KO 15/1/1884:15). / In one part of this courtyard is a line of eleven boxes and each one has a hole poked into the lid as a place to donate money.
2. (verb) (-ia,-na) to operate on (medical), undertake surgery, castrate, geld, spay, neuter.
He kokoti anō tāna mahi i ngā hōiho, he poka i ngā raho o ngā tāriana (TTR 2000:246). / He also performed surgery on horses and gelded stallions.
3. (verb) to make one's way, strike a path.
I poka tonu mai a Te Arawa mā te taha o Whakaari, pā rawa mai Moehau (JPS 1893:222). / Te Arawa made its way past White Island, to Cape Colville.
4. (verb) to appear, come into view.
Nā, i te poka whakatata ki te whakaeroero ngā whetū i te ata hāpara, ka wehewehe ngā matua e toru nei, he rau tōpū ki te matua kotahi (JPS 1919:124). / So, when the stars were about to disappear at dawn, the three divisions of the army, each one of two hundred, separated.
5. (noun) hole, pit, well, puncture, dungeon.
Ki te rū te whenua, ka tuwhera ngā poka hōhonu, ka whakahoroa ngā maunga, ka hūrorirori ngā whare (TTT 1/7/1929:1029). / If there's an earthquake, deep holes open up, mountains are caused to collapse, and houses sway about.
Synonyms: wero, rua, kōruarua, kōrua, pārua, pōpokorua, pokopokorua, pokorua, hāpoki, pokere, waro, mārua, kororua
6. (noun) operation (medical).
Ko te poka i whakaritea ki te Hōhipera o Whanganui, kīhai i whakahaeretia nā te mea kāore i kitea te ngira (TTR 1996:150). / The planned operation at Whanganui Hospital did not eventuate because the needle could not be located.
2. (modifier) entirely covered in tattooing.
Ka tāia pokeretia ērā tāngata (W 1971:290). / Those men are covered entirely with moko.
3. (noun) ant, Formicidae spp.
I kitea aua mangumangu e mui ana ki runga ki taua poti, me te pōpokorua e mui ana ki runga ki te kākano witi (TWMNT 30/3/1879:366). / Those blacks were seen swarming over that boat like ants swarming on wheat grains.
2. (modifier) hollow, sunken.
Tērā tētahi kōrero mō ētahi tamariki e takaro ana i tētahi wāhi e tata ana ki te ara o te tereina, ka kite aua tamariki i ētahi wāhi pokopokorua o te ara o te rerewē, ka houhou rātau ki reira takoto ai (TJ 6/9/1898:7). / There was a story about some children playing at a place near the railway track when those children found some sunken areas of the railway track, and they got into those and lay down.
4. (noun) ant, Formicidae spp.
See also pōpokorua
3. (noun) trap room.
Ko te pokorua he wāhi kei raro tonu i te atamira, ki reira noho ai ētahi o ngā utauta me ngā whakaritenga mō te atamira (RMR 2017). / A trap room is a space directly below the stage where some of the stage equipment and effects are kept (RMR 2017).
4. (noun) ant, Formicidae spp.
See also pōpokorua
putaputa
1. (verb) to appear, emerge, come into view, escape, get out, go out, exit, get clear, survive - a number of people or groups.
Nō te tau 1843, ka putaputa atu ki Te Wairarapa ngā ope hōpara a te Kamupene o Niu Tīreni (TTR 1990:284). / In 1843 the the exploration parties of the New Zealand Company appeared in Wairarapa.
2. (verb) to be full of holes, pitted, riddled.
Ka tīhorea te kiri, ka kitea he mea angiangi noa a roto, he mea putaputa me te pūngorungoru; he wai kau, me te wai kōrau te reka (TWMNT 24/3/1874:72). / When the rind is removed, a thin layer is found inside which is cellular like a sponge, filled with fluid tasting much like that of a turnip.
Synonyms: pōkarakara, kōputaputa
3. (noun) openings.
Mehemea e kore e horoia atu te werawera o te kiri, me te paru hoki e whakakī ana i ngā putaputa ririki o te kiri, koia ka kino ai ka mamae, kātahi ka puku, ka pā haere taua mate ki ia tangata, ki ia tangata (TWMNT 18/6/1873:65). / If the perspiration and the dirt filling the pores of the skin is not washed away then the pain will be awful and the swelling and that disease will strike each person.
rua
1. (noun) hole, pit, burrow, den, chasm, grave, mine, crater.
2. (noun) storage pit.
Tērā i mua tata atu kua tae tētehi tangata ki te tāhae kūmara i te rua kūmara a Mahanga. I te haerenga o Hotu-nui ka takahia e ia ngā tapuwae o tērā, ā, nō te ata ka tirohia i ngā takahanga, ka kīia nā Hotu-nui te tāhaetanga i ngā kūmara (NIT 1995:105). / Shortly before, someone had been to steal kūmara from Māhanga's kūmara storage pit. Hotu-nui had trodden in the footsteps of the thief, and in the morning when the footprints were examined it was said that Hotu-nui had stolen the kūmara.
3. (noun) abyss - place where the heavenly bodies disappear to before reappearing again.
Te tōnga o te rā, te rerenga ki te rua (G 1853:168). / When the sun sets it travels to the abyss.
Synonyms: kororua, waro, poka tōrere
2. (noun) covered kumara pit.
Kia rūpeke te kai ki te hāpoko (NM 1928:161). / The food should be collected in the covered kūmara pit.
mārua
1. (noun) pit, valley, hollow, crater.
I uru atu anō ia ki te patunga o ētahi o Te Whakatōhea, i te taha rāwhiti o te mārua o Rūātoki (TTR 1990:237). / He also took part in the killing of some Te Whakatōhea people to the east of the Rūātoki Valley.
Synonyms: kororua, rua, kōruarua, kōrua, pārua, poka, pōpokorua, pokopokorua, pokorua, hāpoki, pokere, waro
