kōtaretare
1. (noun) sacred kingfisher, kingfisher, Halcyon sancta - a native species with mainly electric blue plumage, often seen perched on power lines, or on branches and rocks near water.
See also kōtare
Synonyms: kōtarepopo, kōtare
3. (noun) stage in the fence of a pā.
Synonyms: kāhekoheko
2. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to climb upon, mount, board, embark, get on, go on board.
Ka tae ki Awarua, ka whakaeke atu rātou ko tōna whānau ki runga ki tētahi poti hī ika i waenganui pō (TTR 1996:71). / When they reached Bluff, she and her family would board a fishing boat at midnight.
3. (verb) (-a,-ngia) go onto (e.g. a marae).
I reira tonu tōna tinana e tangihia ana e ngā ope whakaeke (HP 1991:19). / Her body was right there being wept over by the groups who came onto the marae.
4. (verb) (-a,-hia,-ngia) to levy, impose.
Kua kaha haere te whakaaro kia whakaekea he reti ki runga ki ngā whenua Māori (RT 2013:106). / The idea is strengthening that rents be levied on Māori land.
5. (noun) arrival of guests, entrance.
Nō te ata o te rā o te whakaeke ka tae mai ētahi o te marae ki te wāhi e noho ana mātou ki te kī noa mai kua kore i taea e rātou te hui te whakatū nā te mea kua hinga mai he tūpāpaku ki tō rātou marae (HM 4/1998:7). / On the morning of the welcome on to the marae some of the people of the marae arrived at the place we were staying at to say that they were no longer able to host the meeting because they had a death on their marae.
6. (noun) entrance (e.g. onto a stage), entrance song, entrance item - a term used for the item of a traditional performing arts competition during which the performing group takes the stage.
Ko te whakaeke he waiata, he haka, he mau rākau, he nekeneke ā-kapa kia puta ai te kapa ki runga i te atamira (RMR 2017). / The entrance is a song, a haka, weaponry and group movements so that the group can emerge onto the stage.
kaupapa
2. (noun) topic, policy, matter for discussion, plan, purpose, scheme, proposal, agenda, subject, programme, theme, issue, initiative.
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.
Synonyms: aronga, kaupapa here, hōtaka, marohi, hoaketanga, whāinga, koronga, kakai, tikanga, tātai, whakangārahu, mahere, whakatakoto, whakamahere, hoahoa, pēwheatanga, take, whakakaupapa, whakatakotoranga, whakaaro, tītakataka
3. (noun) raft.
Ka mahia te kaupapa raupō ... ka hoea taua kaupapa ki te au o te awa punga ai (White 5 1888:68). / The raupō raft was made and then it was paddled into the current of the river to anchor it.
See also kahupapa
4. (noun) main body of a cloak.
Ka whakamaua atu ngā huruhuru kiwi ki te kaupapa o te kahu (PK 2008:238). / The kiwi feathers were fixed to the body of the cloak.
2. (verb) to be hanging, suspended.
Ka oti te rā a Kupe rātou ko ngā mātua me ngā tāina. Kite rawa ake kua whata ki runga i te pari whata ai (WW 1915:44). / Kupe, his parents and younger brothers completed the sail. Finally it was seen hanging on the cliff.
3. (noun) elevated stage (for storing food, etc.), storage place.
Ka tahuri ia ki te whawhati kānga, ka tari ki rō whata, i ngā tōnapi ki rō whare (TWK 6:31). / He set about picking the corn and taking it into the storage place, and the turnips into the house.
whatārangi
1. (noun) stage, platform.
E ai ki te mahara ake o tētehi o te minenga ki a Mere e wani mai ana i te whatārangi kia tū ai ki te aroaro-ā-kapa, ki reira haka tahi atu ai me rātau me te puta o te ihi, o te wana (TTR 1998:1). / One member of the audience remembered Mere gliding across the stage to stand in the front row of the haka group to join them in the haka with great excitement and gusto.
Synonyms: kaupapa, kāraho, kahupapa, ahurewa, atamira, raho, rahoraho, tūāpapa
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
2. (noun) elevated platform, stage.
Whakarewaia ki runga i te pakihiwi, he hikitanga, he hapainga, he amonga, he ārewa, he tauira (M 2007:10) / Hoist it on the shoulder as something to carry, something to lift up, something to shoulder, something elevated as a model.
kauwhata
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to recite old legends or genealogies.
Nōna tētahi hinengaro mau pū ki te kōrero, ina hoki, e toru rā kē ia e kauwhata ana i ngā whakapapa o Ngāti Koura me ōna kaupekapeka katoa (TTR 1994:115). / He possessed a prodigious memory, inasmuch as he recited Ngāti Koura genealogies with all its many branches for three days.
2. (noun) séance, human medium of an atua (or spirit).
Kauwhata: He waka nō te atua, he tangata (M 2006:378). / Kauwhata: A human as a medium of an atua.
Nā ka puta ake anō a Te Nākahi i ngā kauwhata a tōna kauwaka hou i a Hōne Tōia (Te Ara 2015). / Now Te Nākahi appeared in séances held by a new medium, Hōne Tōia.
3. (noun) stage, frame.
Ko tētahi kauwhata i hangaia ki mua mai o ngā tahua kai i toe mai nō era atu rangi, ko te roa o taua kauwhata e rima rau putu, ko tētahi i muri atu he mea poto iho. Ko ngā tini kākahu e tukua ana ki ngā manuhiri i whakairia ki runga ki aua kauwhata (TWMNT 4/4/1876:84). / A frame was built in front of the piles of food that remained from the previous days, the length of that frame being five hundred feet, with another shorter one behind it. Many cloaks being given to the visitors were hanging on those frames.
4. (noun) graph.
Ko tā te kauwhata e tohu mai ana, kia piki ake te paemahana, ka kaha ake te tipu o ngā pīni (PK 2008:243). / What the graph shows is that when the temperature climbs the beans' growth is stronger.
2. (noun) watchman's platform.
Ko te ahurewa o te pā, he pātaka, he mea hanga hei nohoanga mō te hunga whakaaraara i ngā tāngata o roto i te pā, kia mataara tonu i te pō (W 1971:4) / The watchman's platform was an elevated stage built as a place for the sentries of the people in the pā to sit to keep watch at night.
3. (noun) stage, platform - has connotations of tapu and mana.
Nā Hēnare Kaihau rāua ko Pēpene Eketone ngā whakaritenga o te tangihanga i whakahaere. Nā rāua anō te whakarite kia kotahi marama te tūpāpaku e takoto ana i runga i tōna ahurewa, kia taea ai ia e ngā iwi katoa o te Kīngitanga te whakanui – he whakaritenga nā te tini me te mano i hāpai (TTR 1996:89). / Hēnare Kaihau and Pēpene Eketone organised the arrangements for the tangihanga. They decided that his body should lie in state for a month to enable all the King movement tribes to honour him, a duty supported by thousands.
Synonyms: kaupapa, kāraho, whatārangi, kahupapa, atamira, raho, rahoraho, tūāpapa
4. (noun) throne.
Ka whakatūria e rātou ko ētehi o ngā rangatira o Waikato he hākari mā ngā Pākehā o Rangiaowhia, hei whakanui i te ekenga o te Kīngi ki tōna ahurewa (TTR 1994:151). / She and other Waikato leaders held a banquet for Pākehā of Rangiaowhia to commemorate the accession to the throne of the King.
amohanga
1. (noun) act of carrying.
Ko te paki o Hewa ngā rangi o tana tangihanga, erangi, nō te amohanga atu i te kāwhena ki runga o Taupiri, ka whakaheke te ua tātā (TTR 1996:229). / For the days of the tangihanga the weather was fine, but as the coffin was borne onto Taupiri very heavy rain fell.
2. (noun) stage for storing food.
He mea whakatū tēnei amohanga nui whakaharahara hei whata kai i tētahi hākari ki Pēwhairangi i te tau 1849 (Te Ara 2015). / This impressive stage was built to store food for a feast in the Bay of Islands in 1849.
2. (noun) elevated platform, raised platform - on which the corpse or coffin is laid during the period of the tangihanga.
He waiata tēnei nā te wahine, i a ia e tāwhiriwhiri ana i te kanohi o tana tāne mate i runga i te atamira ki te patu ngaro, he patu rango ki ētahi he papaki rango ki ētahi iwi (M 2006:20). / This is a song by a woman, which she sang as she fanned her dead husband's face as he lay upon the elevated platform, using a patu ngaro, a fan to keep flies away. It is variously known among different tribes as a patu rango and papaki rango (M 2006:21).
kōtare
1. (noun) sacred kingfisher, kingfisher, Halcyon sancta - a native species with mainly electric blue plumage, often seen perched on power lines, or on branches and rocks near water.
Ka mea atu a Mahuru ki a Teoteo, "He aha te manu pai hei tohu mā tāua." Ka kī mai a Teoteo, "He kōtare (HKW 1/4/1899:3)." / Mahuru (September) said to Teoteo (little shag), "What's a good bird as a symbol for us." Teoteo said, "A kingfisher."
Synonyms: kōtarepopo, kōtaretare
2. (noun) bludger, scrounger, cadger - a person who lives on the generosity of one's friends.
He kōtare koe (W 1971:148). / You are a kingfisher. (A whakataukī likening someone to a kingfisher that sits on a tree or power line looking for prey just as a bludger does watching others eat hoping to get a share.)
Synonyms: kōtaretare, kaimātai, kaipaoke, parakūkā
3. (noun) stage in the fence of a pā.
E whakahua ana ngā kaimataara i ngā whakaaraara i runga i ngā kōtare o te pā (W 1971:148). / The watchmen recite the watch songs on the stages of the pā.
pourangi
1. (noun) elevated platform, stage, podium, rostrum, dais.
Tono ana rāua i ngā rangatira o Te Arawa kia tukua mā Korokī te Kuīni e ārahi atu ki te marae o Te Arawa, hari rawa atu hoki ki te pourangi ariki (TTR 1998:154). / They asked Te Arawa chiefs to let Koroki escort the Queen to the Te Arawa marae and to take her right to the elevated dais.
kōpīpītanga
1. (noun) immature stage.
Kia nui te wairākau, arā kia mōmona te whenua, mō te rākau i te māhuritanga, arā i te kōpīpītanga, ka āta pakari ai - koia hoki me te tamariki, kia nui rā pea he kai māna kia pakari ai - kia pakari ai tōna tinana me tōna hinengaro (TWMNT 21/3/1876:69). / There should be plenty of fertiliser, that is the ground should be fertile, for the plant when it is young, in its immature stage, so that it develops - that's like children who should probably have plenty of food so that they mature - mature in body and mind.
whakaaturanga mataora
1. (noun) live performance, live stage production.
Ko te mahi a te pūkenga oro, he hopu, he rāwekeweke, he whakanikoniko, he whakaputa i te puoro. He wā anō, ko tāna mahi he whakarite, he whakahaere i ngā oro mō tētahi whakaaturanga mataora ki te atamira o te whare whakaari. Ko te āhua o ngā oro hei whakaū i te wairua o te whakaaturanga (RMR 2017). / The role of a sound engineer is to record, manipulate, embellish and reproduce music. Another role is in arranging and controlling the sound for a live stage production. The nature of the sound helps establish the mood of the production (RMR 2017).
hanepī
1. (verb) to be confounded, dumbfounded, aborted, unsuccessful.
Nō te Oketopa ka ārahina e rātou ko Tāreha me ētahi atu o te kāwai rangatira te matua o Heretaunga ki te tuki i te pā o Puketapu. Engari i hanepī te kōkiri (TTR 1994:190). / In October he, Tāreha with some other chiefs led the Hastings contingent to attack Puketapu pā. But the attack was aborted.
2. (verb) to get stage fright.
E tama, kaua e āwangawanga, he mōhio pai koe ki ō kupu, kāore koe e hanepī (RMR 2017). / Son, don't be anxious because you really know your words and won't get stage fright.
kaihāpai o muri
1. (noun) back stage worker.
Arā ētahi kaimahi o te tuaroa hei whakatutuki i ngā mahi o reira, pērā i te kaikawe utauta, te pūkenga tūrama, me te kaiwhakapaipai. Ka kīia ēnei tāngata ko ngā kaihāpai o muri (RMR 2017). / There are some workers of the backstage who do the tasks there, such as the carriers of props, the lighting experts and the decorators. These people are called the back stage workers.
koropū
1. (noun) first stage in the game of kōruru (knucklebones) - a circle is drawn on the ground and four stones are placed outside the circle. A fifth stone (the hai) is thrown up and one stone is placed in the circle and the hai is caught. This is repeated until all the stones are in the circle, when the hai is thrown up and the four stones are picked in one move before catching the hai.
E rima, nui ake ngā mahinga o roto i te kōruru. Ka kīia te mahinga tuatahi ko te koropū (RHR 2017). / There are five or more actions in knucklebones. The first action is called the 'koropū'.
