manurere
1. (noun) aeroplane, aircraft, plane.
Ka puta te karanga, "Ko ngā pāhihi katoa mō Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara me piki ināianei ki runga i te manurere." / The call came, "All passengers for Wellington must board the plane now."
Synonyms: waka rererangi, wakarere
2. (noun) airship, Zeppelin - a long cylindrical airship used during the First World War and until the 1930s.
I runga i te nui o ngā manurere tino nunui o Tiamana kua pakaru, ā i tēnei wā kua whakamutua te hanga i ana tū āhua, engari kua hangaia kia ririki anake (TKO 15/1/1917:9). / Because so many super Zeppelins have been destroyed, the building of those types has ended, now only smaller ones are being made.
papa
1. (noun) board, timber, floor, slab, plank, chart, plane surface, bed (of a lake or the sea), Earth, shell of crayfish and molluscs - anything broad, flat and hard.
Ka tūtaki ētahi tāngata whakatū taiapa ki te papa kōhatu pāia pōnānā (HP 1991:27). / When some fencers encountered rocky land they became flustered.
Synonyms: paraki
2. (noun) victory.
Ko te ritenga tēnei o ngā hapū Māori ina tautohetohe ki te whenua - he whakaekeeke ki te whawhai, ā riro ana te papa i te hunga uekaha ki te pana atu i te hoariri (TKM.MM 12/2/1863:2). / This was the custom of the Māori tribes in disputes over land - they would engage in warfare, with the stronger party achieving the victory and driving out the enemy.
2. (noun) storey.
3. (noun) (mathematics) plane.
wakarere
1. (noun) aeroplane, plane, aircraft.
I te ono karaka, ka rongohia te ngunguru o te wakarere (TWK 8:36). / At six o'clock the roar of the aeroplane was heard.
See also waka rererangi
Synonyms: manurere, waka rererangi
2. (noun) base, headquarters.
I reira a ia e mahi ana i mua i tana kōwhiringa i Whangamumu hei papa taunga mōna, i ngā tau tōmua o te tekau tau atu i 1890 (TTR 1996:24). / He worked there before choosing Whangamumu as his base in the early 1890s.
3. (noun) co-ordinate plane (maths).
Ko te taunga te wāhi noho o tētahi mea. E rua ngā momo whakaatu i te taunga ki tētahi papa taunga, pērā i te kauwhata, i te mahere rānei. Ko te takirua raupapa hei whakaatu i te taunga tukutuku. Ko te tawhiti me te ahunga hei whakaatu i te taunga ahuroa (TRP 2010:275). / A co-ordinate is the place where something is located. There are two ways of showing the co-ordinates of a point on a co-ordinate plane such as a graph or a map. Ordered pairs are used to show cartesian co-ordinates. Distance and direction are used for polar co-ordinates (TRP 2010:275).
2. (verb) to expose the posterior - an act to show contempt.
See also ahi whakaene, whakapohane
mātukutuku
1. (noun) reef heron, Egretta sacra - a slaty-grey heron with a long, heavy, grey to yellowish bill. Legs relatively short, yellow-green. Hunched and almost horizontal when feeding. Found in mangrove inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and intertidal mudflats.
Ka tukua e ia ōna karere ki te tūtū i ngā tāngata o Te Waipounamu - arā, ngā iwi o konei; ko Karoro, ko Ngoio, ko Turiwhatu, ko Mātukutuku, ko Tarapunga, me Kawau-paka, me te tini noa iho o ngā ope manu o tēnei kāinga o te waitai (JPS 1901:72). / So he sent his messengers to summon the people of the South Island, that is the tribes of here - the black-backed gulls, the Ngoio, the New Zealand dotterel, the reef heron, the red-billed gull, the little shag, and the numerous other bird flocks of the ocean.
See also matuku moana
Synonyms: matuku nuia, matuku tai, matuku waitai, tīkāka, matuku moana, kākatai
2. (noun) clubmosses, Lycopodium spp - scrambling or epiphytic plants of various species. Main stems are usually long-creeping, branched and underground. Aerial stems fork repeatedly and are narrow. Small leaves spirally arranged around stem or flattened into one plane.
tarakupenga
1. (noun) sand coprosma, Coprosma acerosa - sprawling shrub with an intertwined mass of branches and branchlets forming a cushion-like mound up to 2 m across. Branchlets golden brown and small leaves are olive green. Found on coastal sand dunes throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Synonyms: tātaraheke
2. (noun) clubmosses, Lycopodium spp - scrambling or epiphytic plants of various species. Main stems are usually long-creeping, branched and underground. Aerial stems fork repeatedly and are narrow. Small leaves spirally arranged around stem or flattened into one plane.
See also mātukutuku
2. (noun) clubmoss, Lycopodium spp - scrambling or epiphytic plants of various species. Main stems are usually long-creeping, branched and underground. Aerial stems fork repeatedly and are narrow. Small leaves spirally arranged around stem or flattened into one plane.
See also mātukutuku
Synonyms: mātukutuku, kohukohu, kōpuru, pūkahukahu, pūkohukohu, rimu, pūkohu
pewanga
1. (noun) sector (geometry) - a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
Ka wehea te porowhita ki ētahi pewanga hei whakaatu i te hautanga, te ōrau ranei o ia rōpū raraunga (TRP 201:140). / The circle is divided into sectors to show the proportion or percentage of each category of the data (TRP 2010:140).
Tuhaahi
1. (noun) Spitfire - a British fighter plane used in the Second World War.
Ka mātakitaki au ki ēnā rererangi whawhai mīharo. He nunui kē ngā paihau, nunui kē ake i tō te Mehemete. He Tuhaahi taku whakamāoritanga i tō rātau ingoa (HP 1991:184). / I gazed at those amazing fighter planes. The wings were large, larger than that of the Messerschmitt. Tuhaahi (Spitfire) is my translation of their name.
Mehemete
1. (loan) (noun) Messerschmitt - the standard fighter plane of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
...ka mutu, i tata tonu ia te mate i te kōkiringa mai a tētahi waka rererangi Mehemete i a rātau (TTR 2000:161). / ...however, he was almost killed when a Messerschmitt plane attacked them.
