rātā
1. (noun) rātā, Metrosideros robusta (Northern), Metrosideros umbellata (Southern) - large forest tree with crimson flowers and hard red timber. The Northern rātā is a strangling hemiepiphyte that sends roots from the canopy that thicken and fuse into an independent trunk, which eventually becomes a tall free-standing tree.
Ka tino purotu te puāwai o te rākau, arā, o te kōwhai, o te hutukawa, o te rātā, o te heketara, o te rangiora (TTT 1/4/1929:972). / The flowers of the trees were quite beautiful, that is of the kōwhai, the pōhutukawa, the rātā, the tree daisy and the rangiora.
2. (noun) scarlet rātā vine, Metrosideros fulgens - a native vine with orange-red flowers, mainly during winter.
Synonyms: whakatangitangi, akatawhiwhi, amaru, kāhikahika
2. (verb) to moult, lose feathers.
Kei taua wā e turuki ai te pārera, ka haere ngā tāngata i runga i ngā waka me ngā kurī, ki te whakangau pārera, i tēnā rā, i tēnā rā, o te wā o te turukitanga (JPS 1895:142). / At the time that the ducks moult, the people proceed in their canoes with their dogs to hunt ducks on each day, so long as the moulting lasts.
Synonyms: whakamāunu
3. (verb) to travel by short stages, move little by little.
Turuki, turuki! Paneke, paneke! (NP 2001:412). / Move, move! Move forward, move forward! (A chant used to move a canoe on skids, or some other heavy object.)
4. (verb) to grow up in addition.
Ka turuki ake ngā huruhuru hou o te manu (W 1971:461). / The bird's new feathers grew.
5. (verb) to be full, crowded.
Kua turuki kē te waka, horekau he nohoanga e wātea ana (PK 2008:1018). / The vehicle is already full and there are no free seats.
6. (verb) to come as a supplement, follow.
Ka haere atu koutou āpōpō, ka turaki atu mātou i muri (W 1971:461). / You will go tomorrow and we will follow afterwards.
7. (noun) sucker (of a tree or plant).
Unuhia katoatia ngā turuki (arā ngā pihi) i ngā rākau (TMT 1/6/1861:15). / Remove all the suckers (that is the shoots) on the plants.
8. (noun) subsidiary, supplement, addition, reinforcement, encore, epilogue - anything supplementary or in support.
Synonyms: tānga
kumi
1. (noun) a traditional measurement of ten mārō, fathom - a measurement of about two metres.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 114;)
Hohoro tonu te here i ngā kārewa e rua ki ngā pokihiwi, oti kau anō ka totohu te kaipuke ki te wai, kumi mā ono te hōhonu, pupuri ai rātou ki ngā kārewa me ngā rākau i teretere, me kore rātou e ora i ēnei (THM 1/4/1888:2). / Hurriedly he fastened two floats around his shoulders, whereupon the ship sank in sixteen fathoms of water, with them clinging to the buoys and loose spars hoping they could survive with these.
See also takoto
2. (noun) huge fabulous monster.
He maha ngā taniwha he ngārara, he kumi rānei (Te Ara 2016). / There were many taniwha known as ngārara or kumi.
Rerenga-wairua, Te
1. (location) Cape Rēinga, Leaping Place of Spirits.
Moriānuku: He puke kei Te Rerenga-wairua. Hei reira ngā wairua poroparoaki mai ai ki te ao tūroa (M 2004:204). / Moriānuku: A hill at Te Rerenga-wairua (The Leaping Place of Spirits). There the spirits bid farewell to the enduring world.
kairāmua
1. (noun) someone who abuses a rāhui.
See also rāhui
pene rākau
1. (loan) (noun) pencil.
Kei tētahi wāhanga o te whenua nei te wāhi o te Īnia-rapa, arā he mea horoi tuhituhi pene rākau, mangumangu rānei (TP 8/1903:3). / In one area of this land is the place of India rubber, that is, the stuff used to clean off pencil writing or ink.
Synonyms: pene
2. (interjection) I agree! exactly! that is it in a nutshell! - expresses agreement with an opinion.
E whakapae ana au nā te kore mahi i uru ai ētahi taitamariki ki te hē. Koia pū. / I'm saying that some youths get into trouble because they are unemployed. Exactly!
raki-mā-rāwhiti
1. (noun) north-east.
See also -mā-
Synonyms: rāwhiti-mā-raki, whakarua, marangai-mā-raro, kārapu, pāwhakarua
2. (noun) rōhutu, Lophomyrtus obcordata - similar to Neomyrtus pedunculata but the white flowers are like miniature rātā flowers and the ripe fruit is black.
rīriri
1. (verb) (rīria) to quarrel, fight.
Ka tukua te taonga pounamu hei tohu mō te rongomau i waenganui i ētahi e rīriri ana (Te Ara 2013). / Valuable greenstone heirlooms were given to establish peace amongst some who were fighting.
Synonyms: pākani, ngangau, kohete, tarahae, riri, tauwhāinga, tautohe, taututetute, totohe, kowhete, kairiri, kekeri, whakanihoniho, tautotohe, taukaikai, ngangare, paka, tatau, tatauranga, kākari, taute, whakatete, whawhai, wāwau, whakanehenehe, korokīkī, kōhetehete, kōwhetewhete, whāinga, whewhei, taungaungau, kekeritanga, tītaitai kōwhatu, tautohetohe
2. (noun) fighting, warfare, warring, hostility.
Kīhai i taea e rāua te whakamutu te rīriri a ngā iwi o Taranaki ki ā rātou anō (TTR 1990:17). / They were unable to end the warfare within the Taranaki tribes.
Rūaumoko
1. (personal name) atua of earthquakes and the youngest child of Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku. Also known as Rūaimoko.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 74-96;)
I te tekau tau atu i 1860 e mahi hoko whenua taupetupetu tonu ana a Te Mānihera. Inarā i te tau 1862, ka hokona e ia te whenua i Te Pūata (Tāheke rānei), ki te kāwanatanga. Ko tērā whenua nā Rūaumoko i puha ake i te tapa tonu o te moana o Wairarapa i te tau 1855 (TTR 1990:286). / Te Mānihera was still involved in disputed land deals through the 1860s. For example, in 1862 he sold the land at Te Pūata (or Tāheke) to the government. That land had been raised above the Wairarapa lake level by the 1855 earthquake.
See also Rūaimoko
Tānerore
1. (personal name) son of Tama-nui-te-rā, the sun, and Hine-raumati, the Summer Maiden. Tānerore is credited with the origin of haka and is the trembling of the air as heat haze seen on hot days of summer, represented by the quivering of the hands in haka and waiata.
Ka whakamoea a Te Rā ki a Hine Raumati kia puta ko Tānerore. E pā ana te kōrero a ‘Te haka a Tānerore’ ki te hau ārohirohi o te raumati (Te Ara 2013). / The sun married Hine Raumati had Tānerore. The saying, ‘Te haka a Tānerore’ (Tānerore's dance) refers to the shimmering of the hot air during summer.
Tirikātene, Eruera Tīhema Te Āika
1. (personal name) (1895-1967) Ngāi Tahu; farmer, marine engineer, Rātana leader and politician who entered Parliament in 1932 and was knighted in 1960.
I whānau a Edward James Te Āika Tregerthen – nō muri iho ka karangatia ko Eruera Tīhema Tirikātene – i te 5 o Hānuere i te tau 1895, i te pā o Te Rakiwhakaputa e pātata atu rā ki Kaiapoi (TTR 1998:75). / Edward James Te Āika Tregerthen, later known as Eruera Tīhema Tirikātene, was born on 5 January 1895 at Te Rakiwhakaputa pā near Kaiapoi.
