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pūrongorongo

1. (verb) to report, recount, give an account of, tell the news.

Waiho māna tonu e pūrongorongo tana wikitōria (PK 2008:723). / Leave it for she herself to report on her victory.

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Synonyms: rongo, rongorongo, pakū, hau, pūrongo, rīpoata, kupu whakatau


2. (noun) report.

E ai ki ngā pūrongorongo a ngā kaitirotiro kura, ka pai kē te āhua o te akoako e kitea ana i reira (TTR 1994:128). / According to the school inspectors' reports, a high standard of teaching was observed there.

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rīpoata

1. (loan) (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to report.

Mā rāua e rīpoata mai te take i pā ai taua aituā (TJ 13/7/1899:3). / They will report on the reason why the accident occurred.

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Synonyms: pakū, hau, rongo, pūrongorongo, kupu whakatau, pūrongo, rongorongo


2. (loan) (noun) report.

Kia kōwhiria ētahi mema hei komiti whakahaere i ngā mema kāore nei i tae ngā rīpoata a ō rātou takiwā ki te Pirimia o ō tātou tūnga (TJ 21/6/1898:3). / That some members be selected as a committee to organise the members whose reports from their areas didn’t reach the Premier of this sitting.

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3. (loan) (noun) reporter.

Tēnei kua tae mai ngā kōrero o te hui ki Papawai, he mea tuku mai nā te rīpoata o te 'Tiupirī' (TJ 21/6/1898:3). / The discussions of the meeting at Papawai have arrived, having been sent here by the Jubilee reporter.

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Synonyms: kairīpoata, kaikawe kōrero

pakū

1. (verb) to make a sudden sound, explode.

I taua wā tonu, pakū ana te pū (TTR 1996:180). / At the very moment, a gun went off.

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Synonyms: pākōkō


2. (verb) to resound.

Ka mea mai anō taua wahine, "Arā kia kite i te tangata e haere mai nei tōna rongo, ka pakū nei i ngā whenua." (NM 1928:160). / The woman then said, "When you see the man his reputation comes with him, it resounds through the land."

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Synonyms: māorooro, tōiriiri, oro, paoro, haruru, hau, , tōiri, papahū, ngātoro, tūpapahū, pohū, pakō, papā, pāorooro


3. (noun) explosion, report.

Ahakoa te hāngai tonu atu nei ki te pakū mai o te pohū me ngā pū itiiti, riro ana nā Manahi tonu i hautū te kōkiri atu o āna tāngata i te hoariri (TTR 2000:112). / Despite the explosion of grenades and small-arms, Manahi personally led his men in the charge against the enemy.

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Synonyms: rongo, rongorongo, hau, pūrongo, pūrongorongo, rīpoata, kupu whakatau

pitopito kōrero

1. (noun) snippet (of information or knowledge), news, news item, news report, note.

E hia ngā tau ia e pāho ana i ngā pitopito kōrero ki te reo Māori i runga i te reo irirangi o te motu (TTR 1998:69). / For many years he was the news announcer in Māori on national radio.

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Synonyms: mātai, rongo, kawepūrongo, rongorongo, kōrero

pūrongo

1. (verb) to report.


2. (noun) report, article (for a magazine, etc.).

I tuhi a Rōpiha i ētahi pūrongo i 'Te Ao Hou', ā, i āwhina atu hoki ia ki te ārahi i ngā kaupapa a te maheni nei i ōna tau tuatahi (TTR 2000:188). / Rōpiha wrote articles for 'Te Ao Hou', and he also helped guide the magazine’s policies in its early years.

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Synonyms: rongo, rongorongo, pakū, hau, pūrongorongo, rīpoata, kupu whakatau

rongo

1. (experience verb) (rangona,-hia,-na,-tia) to hear, feel, smell, taste, perceive - used for all the senses except sight.

Ka rongo ngā hōia i roto i te pā i te tangi o te piukara, ka pikipiki ki runga ki ngā tāepa o te pā (TPH 7/7/1905:5). / When the soldiers in the fort heard the bugle they climbed onto the palisades of the fort.
Kātahi ka kowheta te hiku, ka rongo hoki i te mamae o ngā taura kua nonoti tonu rā i waenganui o te puku (TWM 15/7/1865:3). / Then its tail thrashed about as it felt the pain of the ropes tightening around its stomach.
Me horopū ngā pire, kia kore ai koe e rongo i te kawa (PK 2008:136). / The pills should be swallowed whole so that you don't taste the bitterness.

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See also rangona

Synonyms: kite


2. (noun) news, report, fame, tidings, reputation.

Hau noa ana tōna rongo mō te whakaora tūroro (TTR 1994:5). / His reputation for healing the sick spread.

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Synonyms: kawepūrongo, rongorongo, pitopito kōrero, kōrero, pakū, hau, pūrongo, pūrongorongo, rīpoata, kupu whakatau, whakahirahira


3. (noun) peace (after war).

I te tau 1833, ka haere a Te Wiremu ki Matamata, kia kite i a Te Waharoa, kia houhia te rongo ki a Ngāti Maru (TPH 27/3/1905:2). / In 1833 Williams went to Matamata to see Te Waharoa and to establish peace with Ngāti Maru.

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Synonyms: rangimārie, maungārongo, rongomau, waikanaetanga, whakaaio, āio, houkura, houhanga a rongo, hūmārie, aumārire, mārie, māriri, hūmārire


4. (noun) perception, awareness.

Ko te rongo ko tā te tangata whakamahi i ōna tairongo katoa hei hanga māramatanga ki tētahi mahinga toi (RTA 2014:153). / Perception is a person's use of all their senses to understand an artwork (RTA 20144:153).

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Synonyms: aroā, mōhiotanga, kitenga

rongorongo

1. (verb) (-hia,-na) (rangona) to hear, feel, smell.

Kua rongorongo anō au mō aua pō hākerekere nei, engari kātahi anō au ka kite (HP 1991:179). / I had heard about those dark nights but it was the first time I had encountered them.

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2. (noun) news, report, fame, tidings.

kaikawe kōrero

1. (noun) reporter, presenter.

Kei te pukuriri te rōpū o Aotearoa Tuatahi ki ngā whakapae a ngā kaikawe korero o te motu. / The New Zealand First party is angry about the claims of the national reporters.

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Synonyms: kaiwhakatakoto, kaihautū, kaiwhakataki, kairīpoata, rīpoata

matapae huarere

1. (noun) weather forecast, weather report.

Kei te koa ngā kaipatu ahi i te matapae huarere mō te pō nei, i te mea, mā te ua e māmā ake ai ā rātou mahi i te pō tiripapā o Guy Fawkes. / The firefighters are happy with the weather forecast for tonight because the rain will make their work easier on Guy Fawkes night.

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kairīpoata

1. (loan) (noun) reporter, journalist, columnist.

I ngā tau whakamutunga o tōna koiora, ka toro atu te kairīpoata kōrero rā a Chris Barlow i Waimangō ki te kite i a ia (TTR 1996:234). / In the last years of his life, a journalist, Chris Barlow, visited him at Waimangō.

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Synonyms: kaikawe kōrero, rīpoata

paki

1. (verb) to proclaim, publish, spread a report.


2. (noun) yarn, story, joke, anecdote, gossip, scandal.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 122-126;)

Ko ētahi he kōrero paki, he kōrero whakangahau (HM 1/1992). / Some are yarns, entertaining stories
E rua tau e utua ana tāna tuhituhi auaha i tāwāhi - kotahi noa iho te paki poto i oti mai. Koirā i puta ai te kupu a ētahi, 'he nui te ngaromanga, he iti te putanga'. / For two years his creative writing was paid overseas - just one short story was completed. That's why some said, 'a long time missing for little result'.

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Synonyms: kōrero whakakata, kōrero paki, pakiwaitara, whakatara, kārikarika, whakatara, pakitara, māteatea, tara, tarawau, heitara

hau

1. (verb) to be heard, resound, spread (news), famous.

Hau noa ana tōna rongo mō te whakaora tūroro (TTR 1994:5). / His reputation for healing the sick spread.

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Synonyms: māorooro, tōiriiri, oro, pakū, paoro, haruru, , tōiri, papahū, ngātoro, tūpapahū, pohū, pakō, papā, pāorooro


2. (noun) fame, reputation, name, prestige, eminence, renown, esteem, prominence, report.

Ko te hau ka pā mai ki te iwi Māori me tōna reo, ko ngā kōrero mai i tēnā whenua, mai i tēnā whenua e pā ana ki te whakaora i te reo taketake o aua whenua (HM 3/1998:4). / The reputation concerning the Māori people and their language was spoken about in each country in relation to the survival of the indigenous language of each of those countries.

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Synonyms: whakahirahiratanga, rongonui, mana, hōnore, whakahirahira, ngangahu, ahurei, rongo, pakū, pūrongo, pūrongorongo, rīpoata, kupu whakatau, rongorongo, tapatapa, tapa, hua, whakaingoa, ingoa, tūā

wahapū

1. (noun) narrator.


2. (noun) reporter.

kupu whakatau

1. (noun) welcoming words, welcoming expression.

I ōna rā, ko Ruawehea te ariki tapairu o Ngāti Hako o Hauraki. Inā ngā kupu whakatau manuhiri ka kuhu ki tōna rohe: "Haere mai, nau mai. Haere mai, kuhu noa mai ki ngā hūhā o Ruawehea." (Te Ara 2015). / In her day, Ruawehea was the high-born woman of the Ngāti Hako tribe of the Hauraki area. Here are the welcoming expressions to visitors entering her territory: "Come forth, welcome. Come forth and enter the thighs of Ruawehea."

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2. (noun) decision, judgement.

Ki te oti te whakawā ka puta te kupu whakatau a te Tiati ki te hunga i kitea te tika ki taua whenua (RT 2013:34). / If the judicial hearing is completed the Judge's decision revealing the rights to that land is delivered to the group.

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Synonyms: whakataunga, whakawā, kōtitanga, whakawākanga


3. (noun) recommendation, report.

Kei te takoto tonu taua whenua i raro i te tikanga Māori, nō reira ka kore he kupu whakatau a tēnei Komiti (RT 2013:34). / That land still remains under Māori custom, so this Committee has no recommendation.

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Synonyms: taunaki, marohi, kupu tohutohu, tohutohu, tūtohunga, rongo, rongorongo, pakū, hau, pūrongo, pūrongorongo, rīpoata

Tānihi, Hare Teramea Paata

1. (loan) (personal name) Harry Delamere Barter Dansey (1920-1979) Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa; reporter, cartoonist, writer, broadcaster, local politician, race relations conciliator.

mure

1. (transitive verb) spread reports, slander.

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