puha

1. (verb) (-ina) to blow, spout, spit out, belch, erupt.

Mutu ana te puha o taua rangitoto, ka puha anō ko tētahi i mamao noa atu, kotahi rau māero te mataratanga o tētahi o tētahi o aua puha nei (TW 21/8/1875:160). / When this volcano ceased erupting, another one erupted some distance away. Those eruptions were a hundred miles from each other.

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2. (verb) to exhale, make a faint emission of breath, gasp.

Me ngongo e te tangata mā tōna ihu, ā, ka puha mai mā tōna waha (TTT 1/9/1927:650). / A person should inhale via her nose and exhale via her mouth.

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3. (noun) gills (of fish).

4. (noun) eruption.

Kotahi rau māero te mataratanga o tētahi o tētahi o aua puha nei (TW 21/8/1875:160). / Those eruptions were a hundred miles from each other.

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puha

1. (stative) be full, up to the brim, overflowing, full to overflowing.

Synonyms: kōhure, puhake, pūhakehake, kōrengarenga

puha

1. (noun) war dance - haka with leaping and performed with long weapons. Similar to a peruperu, using weapons but used to call kinsmen to arms.

Te take o tēnei puha, i hapa i te kai, arā, i te wāwāhanga o te tahua (JPS 1901:76). / The reason for this war dance was that they made an error with the food, that is with the dividing up of the food of the feast.

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pūhā

1. (noun) perennial sowthistle, Sonchus arvensis, sowthistle, Sonchus oleraceus, prickly sowthistle, Sonchus asper and Sonchus kirkii - small leafy plants with thistle-like leaves and milky juice. They are boiled and eaten as a green vegetable. Sonchus kirkii is the only one native to Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Kātahi ka kitea atu e tipu ana, e matomato ana i te taha o te taiapa tētahi āpure pūhā (TWK 57:8). / Then she found a lush patch of pūhā growing beside the fence.

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Synonyms: pūwhā, taweke, wekeweke, kautara, pūhā tiotio, raurōroa