mānukanuka
1. (verb) to be apprehensive, puzzled, anxious.
E mānukanuka ana ngā Pākehā o Ingarani ki taua kaipuke; e whakaaro ana kua wera atu i te moana me ōna tāngata e whā tekau i eke atu i konei - hui ki ngā hēramana ka nui atu i te rima tekau (TWM 30/12/1869:2). / The English are anxious about that ship and are thinking that it has been burnt at sea together with its forty passengers who boarded from here - altogether with the crew there were more than fifty.
2. (verb) to have misgivings.
3. (noun) anxiety, misgiving, apprehension.
Kāti, i te tau 1863, i te noho anipā a ngā Pākehā i roto i tērā takiwā o Te Matau-a-Māui ki ngā kōhimuhimu kei te tino pakari haere te Kīngitanga; nā Whaanga i whakamahea tō rātau mānukanuka (TTR 1990:392). / Well, in 1863 when the Pākehā in the Hawke's Bay district were alarmed at the rumours that the King Movement was strengthening, Whaanga allayed their fears.
kānaenae
1. (stative) be bewildered, confused, puzzled, baffled.
Kātahi anō tērā ka haramai tonu, Waikanae, ka kānaenae ngā kanohi o Hau; ko Waimeha, ka mehameha a Hau (JPS 1927:281). / Finally he came on to Waikanae, so named from Hau's bewildered eyes; then Waimeha, where Hau was lonesome.
Synonyms: mānukanuka, āniwa, paraparau
2. (verb) (-ngia,-hia,-tia) to be baffled, disconcerted, puzzled, mystified.
Paraparau kau te tangata nei mō te rerenga o Te Kahu-rere-moa (NM 1928:122). / This man was baffled as to the reason for the flight of Te Kahu-rere-moa.
Synonyms: raumahara, pōrangirangi, pōrauraha, pōkaikaha, āniwa, mānukanuka, kānaenae
3. (noun) lie, fabrication, untruth.
E tika ana tēnei, ara te wāhi ki a koutou, otiia, ko ngā kōrero mō Haiti he paraparau kau te nuinga (TKM.MM 18/7/1863:10). / This is true of you, but the stories about Haiti are mostly fabrication.
Synonyms: rūkahu, whakateka, teka, tito, tipatipa, tīpapa, kōrero teka, kōrero parau, horihori, hori, pūkei, rūpahu, takoto, hāwatewate, pūkai, patu taringa, kēā, papahu, tahupera
whakapōkaikaha
1. (verb) (-tia) to confuse, baffle, perplex, bewilder, bamboozle, confound, puzzle.
He aroha, he pōuri nōku ki tō tāua iwi, ki te Māori e whakapōkaikahatia nei (HKW 1/10/1898:4). / It is because of concern and sadness for our people, the Māori who are being confused.
Synonyms: whakaawangawanga, whakarangirua, whakahanepī, whakarare, whakatekateka, panga, whakapōhēhē, kai
2. (noun) confusion, bewilderment, uncertainty.
Kei te ao tawhito rawa atu ētahi hapū, ētahi iwi; kei te kāhakihakina noatia e ngā whakaakoranga maha, e ngā hāhi huhua, e ngā tohunga tokomaha. Ko te tino hua o ēnei mea katoa ko te whakataumaha, ko te whakapōuri, ko te whakapōkaikaha (TTT 1/9/1925:291). / These subtribes and tribes are still in the ancient world and are being attracted by many doctrines, by a variety of faiths and lots of tohunga. The main outcome of all these things is burdening, depression and confusion.
2. (noun) heap.
He tipuna, nāna te tinana o Pahoe i kite i roto i te pōkīkī, i te tāwhaowhao (M 2004:138). / An ancestor who found the body of Pahoe in a heap of tangled driftwood.
2. (noun) puzzle.
Ko ētahi momo panga e mōhiotia nuitia ana, ko te pangahono me te mataono a Rubik (PK 2008:582). / Some types of puzzles that are known widely are the jigsaw puzzle and Rubik's cube.
Synonyms: kai, whakapōkaikaha
āniwa
1. (verb) to be aimless, bewildered, puzzled.
Oho rawa ake, ka kite iho kei te hōhipera a ia, ka āniwa ngā whakaaro (PK 2008:20). / On finally awakening she realised that she at the hospital and she was bewildered.
Synonyms: mānukanuka, kānaenae, paraparau
kai
1. (noun) riddle, puzzle, toy.
Synonyms: panga, whakapōkaikaha, pere
pōkaikaha
1. (verb) to be confused, at a loss, in doubt, perplexed, mystified, baffled, flustered, bewildered, stressed out, flummoxed, bamboozled.
Ko ngā tamariki pēpe e moemoe ana i taua wā kātahi ka whakaarahia, ka pōkaikaha noa iho rātau ki te kimikimi i ō rātau pūtu me ō rātau kahu mahana, i te mea e rere ana te puaheiri i taua wā, me te hau hoki e pupuhi ana (TPH 10/1/1906:3). / The young children were asleep at that time when they were made to get up and they hurriedly looked for their boots and warm clothes because the snow was falling and the wind blowing.
Synonyms: raumahara, paraparau, pōrangirangi, pōrauraha, tuarangaranga, harapuka, pōhēhē, pōrahu, rararu, raupeka, raruraru, raparapa, raru, pōkahu, pōkeka, pōritarita, pōrahurahu
2. (modifier) perplexing, puzzling, mysterious, baffling.
Ka haere a Te Kooti ki te whakatuwheratanga, ka kī ia i tana kupu pōkaikaha, arā, mā te hau a roto e pupuhi (TTR 1994:47). / Te Kooti attended the opening and predicted in his perplexing words, that the wind would blow through it.
Synonyms: pōkīkī, pōrahurahu, porehu, māminga
3. (noun) confusion, uncertainty, doubt, perplexity.
Nā te maha o ngā tuhinga rerekētanga i tōna ingoa, i kaha kē atu ai te pōkaikaha (TTR 1996:217). / Because there were so many written versions of his name, it had added to the confusion.
