perehitene
1. (loan) (noun) president.
Ko Hōri Wahitana te Perehitene tuatahi o Amerika (KO 15/3/1884:9). / George Washington was the first President of America.
Synonyms: timuaki, tumuaki, perehitini, perehitana
perehitini
1. (loan) (noun) president.
Mā te Kāwana e whakatū atu tētahi perehitini hei whakakapi mōna (TWMNT 30/10/1872:140). / The Governor will appoint a president as his replacement.
Synonyms: perehitene, timuaki, tumuaki, perehitana
perehitana
1. (loan) (noun) president.
Kāore he kīngi ō tēnei iwi, heoi anō ko te perehitana (TP 1/10/1901:2). / This nation does not have a king, but a president.
Synonyms: perehitene, timuaki, tumuaki, perehitini
2. (loan) (personal noun) President.
Nō te 7 o ngā rā o tēnei marama ka tae mai te waea o Niu Ioka he whakaatu mai i te kōhurutanga o Perehitana Makiniri, te tumuaki o te Unaititi Teiti, Amerika (TP 9/1901:12). / On the 7th of this month, a telegram from New York arrived informing of the assassination of President McKinley, the leader of the United States of America.
timuaki
1. (noun) head, president, principal, head of an institution, crown of the head.
Ko te timuaki o te kāreti ko Archie Douglas (HP 1991:50). / The principal of the college was Archie Douglas.
Synonyms: perehitene, tumuaki, perehitini, perehitana, tino, pekepoho, aporei
tumuaki
1. (noun) crown of the head.
Ka whakawahi te kaumātua rā i tana māhunga ki te kokowai, kātahi ka tono atu i tana tamaiti, i a Maniapoto, kia ngaua tana tumuaki. Mōhio tonu a Maniapoto e tuku mai ana tō rātou pāpā i te mana rangatira ki a ia (NIT 1995:173). / That elder anointed Maniapoto's head with red ochre, then asked his son, Maniapoto, to bite the crown of his head. Maniapoto knew that their father was passing his chiefly mana to him.
2. (noun) head, leader, president, principal, head (of an institution), chancellor, chief executive.
He mea whakatū anō hoki a ia hei tumuaki mō te pekanga ki Pōneke o te Rōpū Wāhine Toko i te Ora, ā, hei tumuaki tuarua, kaitiaki pūtea atu hoki mō te kaunihera ā-rohe o te rōpū nei ki Pōneke (TTR 2000:253). / She was also appointed as president of the Wellington branch of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and vice president and treasurer of the Wellington district council.
Synonyms: perehitene, timuaki, perehitini, perehitana, tino, pekepoho, aporei, wheao, tumu whakarae, kaiarataki, kaikākāriki, ngārahu, tētēkura, uru, kaihautū, kaitakitaki, kaingārahu, manukura, manu taupua, tātāriki, amokapua, amokura, ariki, ihorei, kahika, tātarariki, poutoko, whakataka, amorangi, hautū, kaiwhakanekeneke, kaitaki, kaitātaki, kaiārahi, kākākura, pouwhenua, kaiwhakataki
tumuaki tuarua
1. (noun) vice president, deputy principal.
He mea whakatū anō hoki a ia hei tumuaki mō te pekanga ki Pōneke o te Rōpū Wāhine Toko i te Ora, ā, hei tumuaki tuarua, kaitiaki pūtea atu hoki mō te kaunihera ā-rohe o te rōpū nei ki Pōneke (TTR 2000:253). / She was also appointed as president of the Wellington branch of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and vice president and treasurer of the Wellington district council.
Kāwharu, Ian Hugh
1. (personal name) ONZ, FRSNZ (1927-2006) Ngāti Whātua; academic and ariki. Educated at Auckland Grammar School, University of Auckland (BSc), Cambridge (MA) and Oxford (MLitt, DPhil) Universities. Became the foundation professor of Social Anthropology and Māori Studies at Massey University in 1970. Professor of Māori Studies and head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland (1985-1993). Chair of Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei Māori Trust Board (1978-2006). Served on the Royal Commission of the Courts (1976-1978), the New Zealand Māori Council, the Board of Māori affairs (1987-1990) and the Waitangi Tribunal (1986-1996). He was a Aotearoa/New Zealand delegate to UNESCO and a consultant to the United Nations economic and Social Council and the Food and Agriculture Organization. He was also President of the Polynesian Society. Knighted in 1989 and appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand in 2002.
Motoreta
1. (loan) (noun) Moderator - Presbyterian minister presiding over an ecclesiastical body.
Ko te Motoreta tuatahi i whiriwhiria e Te Hīnota Māori Perehipitiriana, ko te Tino Rev. Hoani Rōtene, CMG (HP 1991:300). / The first Moderator chosen by the Presbyterian Māori Synod was the Very Rev. John Laughton.
