takitahi
1. (verb) single, individual.
2. (modifier) singly, solo, individual.
Hau ana tōna rongo, ā, whāia haere tonutia ana ia hei kaiwaiata takitahi (TTR 1998:62). / Her reputation spread and she was continually sought after as a soloist.
3. (noun) single person, single individual, singles.
Ko Ngāti Maniapoto anō tētahi i whakahē ki te wāwāhi o te whenua kia riro i te takitahi. / Ngāti Maniapoto was another tribe that opposed dividing up the land for individual title.
2. (modifier) in single file.
He turuki, he paneke te āhua o te haere mō te roanga o te rā, ā, 1830 haora ka puta haukaiwahine i te awaawa (Te Rātaka o te Ope Taua Māori - 1/1943). / Short moves, moving forward was the nature of travel throughout the day until at 1830 hours we passed through the valley in single file.
3. (noun) single file, formation in single file.
Ko te 'haukaiwahine' ko te haere takitahi a taua ope nei (White 1888:132). / The 'haukaiwahine' was the movement of that war party in single file.
2. (verb) (-a) to pick out singly, pick off, cull, single out.
Synonyms: tīpako
3. (verb) to putt (golf).
4. (noun) putter (golf).
2. (modifier) peer.
I whakaritea he arotake aropā o te rōpū. / A peer review of the group was organised.
Synonyms: hoa aropā, whakangeingei, whātare
3. (noun) grove of a single species of tree.
4. (noun) peer group.
Ka kōrero rātau mō tā rātau hoahoa me tō rātau aropā, me te kaiwhakaako (Ha 1999:74). / They talk about their design with their peer group and the teacher.
whakaio
1. (verb) to stand firm.
I whakaio tahi a ia ki ngā tāne kīhai i pīrangi ki te mau rākau mō tētehi pakanga ehara nā rātou, whawhai kē rānei mō tētehi kāwanatanga nāna tō rātou iwi i muru, i whakakorara (TTR 1996:44). / She stood firm with the men who did not wish to take up arms for a war that was not theirs, or to fight for a government that had dispossessed and scattered their people.
2. (verb) to march in single file.
taotahi
1. (verb) to recite genealogy in a single line of descent.
2. (noun) single line of whakapapa.
Ko te whakapapa kōhikohiko, i roto i te whakapapa kōhikohiko kua kore e whai i te tātai taotahi, arā, whakaheke haere tonu mai i te taha kotahi anake, he taotahi tērā (Milroy 2015). / The genealogy recited in a selective way, the whakapapa kōhikohiko, does not follow a single line of descent, in other words tracing descent coming down one line only, which is taotahi.
2. (modifier) single birth.
'Kōtuku reretahi.' Tōna ritenga he tangata putanga kotahi (TP 7/1911:9). / 'White heron of single birth.' It is a comparison to a person of single birth.
3. (noun) harmony.
Ko te reretahi te noho kotahi mai o ētahi āhuatanga hoahoa ki te mahinga toi ataata, kia tino kitea ai ngā hononga rerehua o tētahi āhuatanga ki tētahi (RTA 2014:152). / Harmony is the combining of design elements within a piece of visual art so that the aesthetic similarities of the parts are emphasised (RTA 204:152).
4. (noun) coordination.
E tino kitea ana te reretahi o ōna ringaringa, o ōna waewae, otirā o āna nekeneke katoa (RMR 2017). / The coordination of her arms and legs, and all her movements can be seen clearly.
rōpā
1. (noun) slave, servant, porter, serf.
He nui noa atu ngā rōpā o Rūhia i ngā tau e rua tekau ka pahemo ake nei, engari, nā te pāpā o tēnei Epara i wewete katoa, ā, whakawhiwhia iho e ia ki te whenua, mā tēnei, mā tēnei (KO 15/6/1882:1). / There were an immense number of serfs in Russia in the past twenty years, but this Emperor's father set them all free and he gave land to each of them.
Synonyms: poata, poroteke, wheteke, tia, pāihi, mōkai, kaitonotono, hāwini, pononga, tūmau, apa
2. (noun) single man, lodger (in a family).
2. (modifier) folded once, having one aspect, united, single.
Pū ngātahi ai te ngākau tapatahi me te pukumahi i te wahine nei, i riwhariwha nei te whatumanawa i te matenga o te maha o tōna whānau (TTR 2000:30). / This woman combined integrity with hard work, despite a heart scarred by the deaths of many of her family.
Synonyms: tōtahi, takakau, tahi, kotahi, kōtahitahi, takitahi
3. (noun) uprightness, honesty, righteousness, vitue.
He pai ki te rawakore e haere ana i runga i tōna tapatahi, i te tangata he parori kē ōna ara, ahakoa he whai taonga ia (PT Nga Whakatauki 28:6). / Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
4. (noun) small fish basket - made of toetoe leaves for holding fish.
E rua tapatahi inanga, ka hoatu ēnā ki te aroaro o Kahu rātou ko ōna hoa tohunga (W 1971:383). / There were two baskets of whitebait, and those were placed in front of Kahu and his fiends.
whiore tapatahi
1. (noun) single file formation or movement of a haka group.
Ko te whiore tapatahi, te haukaiwahine rānei: He takitahi te neke a te kapa, tētahi kaihaka ki muri i tētahi (RMR 2017). / The whiore tapatahi or single file formation: The movement of the rank is in single file, one performer behind another.
matua takakau
1. (noun) single parent.
Riro ana ia hai tamaiti whāngai mā tana matua kēkē, matua takakau, he kōingo nōna ki tētahi tamaiti hai whāngai māna ki ana kōrero tuku iho (TTR 1998:185). / He was taken as a foster child by his uncle, a single parent, because he wanted a child to pass on his traditional knowledge.
2. (noun) Prince of Wales Feathers, crape fern, Leptopteris superba - native tufted ground fern, often with a short woody trunk. Fronds tapered equally at both ends, very finely divided. Fluffy to touch. Grows best in cool, wet forest. Frond tapers at both ends.
Synonyms: maikukuroa, pūniu, tētē kura, tētēkura, ngutungutu kiwi, pūnui, tētē, ngutu kākāriki
2. (noun) fontanelle.
2. (adjective) single-celled.
3. (adjective) unicellular.
tōtahi
1. (modifier) solitary, single, alone, solo.
2. (modifier) within a little, nearly, almost.
Kotahi te Pākehā, ko te Kōra tōna ingoa, i haere atu i runga i te tāhuna paruparu ki te kawe atu i te pātara waipiro ki ngā tāngata i runga i taua poti, i te hokinga mai tōtahi ka mate i te pōharuharu, nā te mea i ngōki mai i runga i te paru i tae mai ai ki uta, tae rawa mai kua ruwha noa iho (TWMNT 11/7/1876:172). / A Pākehā named Cole went over the mud flat with a bottle of alcohol to the people on that boat, and on returning in a little while he had difficulties with the quagmire because he had to crawl over the mud to reach the shore. When he finally arrived he was exhausted.
Synonyms: tata, tata, whakatata, whano, kua [mutu] tonu, whano tae
taumātakitahi
1. (verb) (-tia) to select a champion for each competitive side, engage in single combat.
Ka taumātakitahi a Te Wherowhero me tana kō ki ngā rangatira o te hoariri (TTR 1990:341). / Te Wherowhero then fought a number of enemy chiefs in single combat, armed only with his kō (digging implement).
2. (modifier) single combat, hand-to-hand (fighting).
Nā tana toki ka hinga a Tatakahuanui i Waituna i te tau 1806 pea, ka waiho tērā riri taumātakitahi hei kōrero mā te tini mā te mano (TTR 1990:107). / It was probably in 1806 that he killed Tatakahuanui with his adze at Waituna and that hand-to-hand fighting became famous.
See also riri taumātakitahi
3. (noun) single combat.
Synonyms: riri taumātakitahi
