pirihimana
1. (loan) (noun) police officer, constable, cop, policeman, police woman.
E kī ana taua rata, he kore moni nā te Kāwanatanga, hei utu mō tāna mahi tirotiro tūroro Māori, ko tōna utu pirihimana tonu e ora nei ia, i āna mahi titiro tūroro Māori (TW 12/2/1875:9). / The doctor says that the Government do not pay him for attending Māori patients, it is his own salary for police that keeps him, when attending Māori patients.
2. (loan) (noun) person keeping order at hui.
Ko Wiremu Kiriwehi te tiamana, ko te Weri Teuira te karaka, ko Katera Poni te pirihimana (TJ 14/9/1899:4). / Wiremu Kiriwehi was the chairman, Wei Teuira was the clerk, while Katera Poni kept order.
Kura Whakangungu o Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa
1. (loan) New Zealand Police Training School.
He ika tauhou tino pai kē nei ia, ā, nuku kē atu ana ōna mōhio i ērā o ngā tauira o tōna karaehe mō ngā marama e ono e whakaakona ana ia i te kura whakangungu o Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa i Māwaihākona (TTR 2000:81). / She was an outstanding recruit and she out-performed the other cadets of her class during the six months she was training at the New Zealand Police Training School in Trentham.
pirīhi
1. (loan) (noun) policeman, police - word now obsolete.
Ka mau aua tāngata i ngā pirīhi, ā kei roto aua tāngata i te herehere i nāianei (TPH 31/10/1902:5). / Those men were caught by the police and they are in prison now.
See also pirihimana
Synonyms: pirihimana
kātipa
1. (loan) (noun) constable, police officer.
Tokorua ngā katipa i tae mai ki tōna kāinga ki te hari i a ia ki te whare pirihimana. / Two constables arrived at his home to take him to the police station.
Synonyms: pirihimana
Rūtene
1. (loan) (noun) Lieutenant - title of an army or US police officer next in rank below a captain or a naval officer next in rank below a lieutenant commander.
Ka puta atu ko Rūtene Te Piiki me ana kaitūao Pākehā e 20 ki te pā o Mōkena i te 3 o Hūrae (TTR 1990:39). / Lieutenant Biggs and 20 Pākehā volunteers reached Mōkena's pā on 3 July.
See also rewheteneti
rewheteneti
1. (loan) (noun) lieutenant - an army or US police officer next in rank below a captain or a naval officer next in rank below a lieutenant commander.
He paraiweti ia i te haerenga, ina e hoki mai nei he rewheteneti (TP 1/11/1900:9). / He was a private when he went, and when he returned he was a lieutenant.
2. (loan) (personal noun) Lieutenant - a title for an army or naval officer.
Ko te haere o te ope nei he kawe mate, he tangi mate i ngā mate o te pakanga - he tangi ki ngā tamariki o Ngāti Porou i hinga ki te pakanga, he tangi ki ō rātou hoa āpiha, ki a Rewheteneti Hēnare Kōhere rāua ko tōna irāmutu, ko Kāpene Pēkama Kaa (TKO 31/7/1919:5). / The journey of the party was a kawe mate to weep for the dead of the war - to weep for the children of Ngāti Porou who fell in the war and to cry for their officers Lieutenant Hēnare Kōhere and his nephew, Captain Pēkama Kaa.
