rawe
1. (verb) to be excellent, becoming, good, fine, pleasant, nice.
2. (modifier) excellent, becoming, good, fine, pleasant, nice.
He toa a Tama-āhua ki te mau rākau, taiaha, patu poto rānei; ā he tangata rawe ki te haka ia, he reo reka ki te waiata (JPS 1914:6). / Tama-āhua was an expert in the use of weapons, taiaha or short weapons, and he was an excellent haka dancer, with a sweet voice in singing.
3. (noun) excellence, fineness, quality.
Kāti, inā kē te nui o te mahi i kao i a ia me te rawe o tana tuhi (TTR 1996:136). / Well, she collected together a vast amount which was elegantly written.
māota
1. (stative) be green, freshly-grown, raw.
Kei te ngahere ngā mahinga kai a te iwi Patupaiarehe, kainga ai e rātou ngā kai māota, hopukina ai ngā ika i te moana me ngā roto (Te Ara 2014) / The gardens of the Patupaiarehe folk is in the forest. They eat raw food and catch fish in the sea and lakes.
2. (noun) kohekohe, Dysoxylum spectabile - a tree with 3-4 opposite pairs of dark, shiny leaves. Flowers in early winter every second year, with long drooping white sprays which grow directly from the trunk or branches. Fruit is a round green capsule which splits open to reveal an orange-red centre.
2. (modifier) raw, uncooked, not fully developed, immature, unripe, green, fresh.
Kāore he kai maoa o runga i tēnei waka, i a 'Tākitimu', nā te tapu. He kai mata anake (HP 1991:9). / There was no cooked food on this canoe, on Tākitimu, because it was tapu. There was only raw food.
2. (modifier) unripe, uncooked, green (of unripe fruit).
He iwi kai ota, kāore he ahi (M 2006:88). / These people ate their food raw and had no fires.
3. (noun) refuse, dregs.
Synonyms: kapurangi, kape, tohe, para, whakahoe, whakakāhore, whakapeka, whakanau, whakatoitoi, hawa, huru, whakapekapeka, tohetohe
2. (modifier) be unripe, fresh, uncooked.
Ka ruiruia e ia ana karepe kaiota anō ko te wāina (PT Hopa 15:33). / He will shake off his unripe grapes as the vine.
3. (noun) herbivore.
He kaiota te manu nei. Ko ētahi o āna tino kai, ko ngā kākano, ngā rau, ngā tātā me ngā pakiaka o ētahi tipu. Ka kaikainga ngā mea kākoa, me te ngongo i te pia o roto (HM 4/1998:4). / This bird is a herbivore. Some of its staple foods are seeds, leaves, stalks and the roots of some plants. Fibrous things are eaten and the sap inside is sucked out.
pahore
1. (intransitive verb) to be chafed, having the skin rubbed off, bared, exposed, scraped off, raw.
Kāti, kāore e mutu te rakuraku kei raro kē hoki i te kiri te ngārara nei e huke ana. Nāwai rā, ka pahore te kiri o tēnā wahi, o tēnā wahi o te tangata e tūkinotia ana e te ngārara nei (TTT 1/8/1927:639). / Well, there's no end to the scratching while under the skin the mite is burrowing. After a while each part of the person's skin that is being attacked by this mite becomes raw.
2. (intransitive verb) to show (the teeth) - as when grinning, grimacing or snarling.
Kātahi ka pahore ngā niho o te katoa ki te kata ki taua hākui e rere ana i runga i tōna hōiho me te pupuri ngā ringa ki ngā taringa pihi (TWMNT 3/7/1872:90). / Then everybody burst into laughter at that elderly woman flying along on her horse holding on to its ears.
3. (modifier) scraped off, exposed, bared, chafed.
He mahi takoto noa te whawhaki i ngā pua hāpi, he mahi whakawhairawa mā ngā tamariki tāne māngere o ngā kāinga Māori, e hāmoemoe tonu ana i roto i te roanga o te rā, e omaoma haere kino ana rānei i runga i ngā hōiho tuarā pahore hei matenga mō rātou ake anō, me ngā tāngata e āta haere ana i ngā rori (TWMNT 22/3/1879:349). / Picking hops would be an easy and profitable employment for the lazy boys of the Māori villages who just loll about for most of the day, or race about dangerously on sore-backed horses, endangering themselves and the quiet travellers on the roads.
Synonyms: pāhorehore
4. (noun) adult whitebait, Galaxias maculatus.
Ko ngā mea nunui e kainga nei e koe he pahore, ko ngā mea ririki he inanga (W 1971:248). / The large ones that you are eating are pahore and the small ones are inanga.
See also inanga
2. (noun) uncooked food.
I te 3 o ngā hāora i te ahiahi o te Paraire, ka whiua te kaimata, te pēke o te parāoa, o te huka; te pouaka o te tī; te kau, te poaka, te hipi, te huahua tītī, kererū (KO 15/12/1886:8). / At 3 pm on Friday afternoon, the uncooked food, the bags of flour and sugar; the box of tea; the cow, the pig, the sheep, the preserved mutton birds and pigeons were presented.
2. (adjective) be bloody, raw (of flesh).
3. (noun) blood.
Ka karapinepine te pūtoto ki roto te whare wahiawa (M 2006:4). / 'Twas then blood welled forth floodlike to the house exit (M 2006:5).
4. (noun) haemoglobin.
2. (modifier) uncooked, raw.
He kai whakarae i tāpaea mai nei ki a mātou (W 1971:320). / Some raw food that was placed before us.
2. (verb) to grow.
3. (verb) to spring up, develop.
Nō ngā tau o te 1960 ka whanake mai ngā rōpū mautohe (Te Ara 2014). / Protest movements developed from the 1960s.
4. (verb) to rise.
Ka haere a Tū-rāhui ki waho whakahāereere ai i te tamaiti; kātahi ka titiro atu ki te rā e whanake ana i te huapae o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (JPS 1913:176). / Tū-rāhui went outside to stroll about with the child. Then he looked at the sun rising on the horizon of the Pacific Ocean.
5. (noun) cabbage tree, Cordyline australis - a palm-like tree with strong, long, narrow leaves; the young inner leaves are eaten both raw and cooked. This variety is found throughout the country in a variety of habitats. The young tree has long narrow leaves which arise from a single trunk. As it matures the trunk becomes bare and branches out.
Pēnā tonu te rere a te kererū i te wā e mau ana tēnā kākano, ā, tata noa ki te horonga o tērā kākano, o te whanake (JPS 1895:132). / The flight of the New Zealand pigeon is like that during the time that the fruit lasts and until just before the seeds of the cabbage tree falls.
tī
1. (noun) cabbage trees of various species - palm-like trees with strong leaves; the young inner leaves are eaten both raw and cooked.
Mea rawa ake ka mau a Hotupuku ki roto i tētahi tāwhiti i rangaa i te rau o te tī (Te Ara 2013). / Very soon Hotupuku was caught in a noose woven from cabbage tree leaves.
kōuka
1. (noun) cabbage tree, Cordyline australis - a palm-like tree with strong, long, narrow leaves. The young inner leaves are eaten both raw and cooked.
Kakū ana tana ngao i ngā kai papai a te Pākehā, engari ko tēhea atu hoki i te kānga kōpiro, i te toroī, i te kōura mara, i te kina i rāua ki te wai māori mō ngā rā e toru, i te kōuka, i te mangō me te kererū huahua, he mea kōtutu katoa i roto anō i ōna hinu (TTR 1998:206). / He enjoyed the finest of Pākehā foods but relished fermented corn, pickled pūhā and mussels, crayfish fermented in fresh water, sea-urchins steeped in fresh water for three days, inner baby fronds of the cabbage tree, shark, and wild pigeons preserved entirely in their own fat.
tī kōuka
1. (noun) cabbage tree, Cordyline australis - a palm-like tree with strong, long, narrow leaves; the young inner leaves are eaten both raw and cooked. This variety is found throughout the country in a variety of habitats. The young tree has long narrow leaves which arise from a single trunk. As it matures the trunk becomes bare and branches out.
tī rākau
1. (noun) cabbage tree, Cordyline australis - a palm-like tree with strong, long, narrow leaves; the young inner leaves are eaten both raw and cooked. This variety is found throughout the country in a variety of habitats. The young tree has long narrow leaves which arise from a single trunk. As it matures the trunk becomes bare and branches out.
kāuka
1. (noun) cabbage tree, Cordyline australis - a palm-like tree with strong, long, narrow leaves. The young inner leaves are eaten both raw and cooked.
Ki a Ngāti Porou te kōuka he kāuka engari hoki he whenua kei Waiapu ko te Ahikōuka te ingoa (RK 1994:41). / To Ngāti Porou the kōuka (cabbage tree) is kāuka, but despite that there is land at Waiapu called Ahikōuka.
