storehouse - Te Aka Māori Dictionary

pākoro

1. (noun) storing place (for potatoes, etc.), small fenced enclosure, pigsty.

Ka riro taua whare hei kītini mahinga kai, muri iho ka noho hei pākoro parareka, paukena hoki (TP 10/1905:10). / That building was used as a kitchen to prepare food, and later it became a storehouse for potatoes and pumpkins.

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Synonyms: pākorokoro, pahiko poaka

pātengi

1. (noun) storehouse, storage, collection - originally a word for a storehouse or pit for kūmara.

I ngā rā o mua mā te tāne rawa e whakanohonoho ngā kūmara ki te pātengi, ko ngā wāhine he kawe atu i ngā kūmara ki a ia (PK 2008:613). / In former times it was for the man to place the kūmara in the storehouse and the women would convey the kūmara to him.

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wharerangi

1. (noun) elevated platform, storehouse raised on posts.

E whiti e te hoa, ē, moe ki kore mai rā i runga i te wharerangi (M 2007:254). / Let your body shine, oh friend, sleep the sleep of oblivion upon the elevated platform (M 2007:255).

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moana

1. (verb) to be uneven.

I moana tētahi taha o te rua (W 1971:204). / One side of the pit was uneven.

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2. (noun) roof of a kūmara storehouse.

papakiore

1. (noun) wide slab placed on piles of elevated storehouses to block rats.

kōpapa

1. (adjective) be concave.

He koropuku te taha whakararo o te takere o te waka, he kōpapa a roto. / The bottom side of the hull of a canoe is convex, the inside is concave.

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2. (noun) small canoe - a dugout canoe without attached sides, surfboard.

I te mutunga o te kura i te tahi o ngā hāora, o te awatea, ā, ka uta ki runga ki tētehi kōpapa iti nei, ka whakawhiti ki tētehi taha o Waipā, tokorima ki runga ki taua kōpapa nei (TH 1/8/1859:4). / When school finished at 1 p.m. they climbed onto a small dugout canoe and crossed to the other side of the Waipā. There were five people on that dugout.

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3. (noun) storehouse, depot.

Nō Oketopa, i whakatūria a ia hei kāpara iti mō te rōpū kōpapa tohu hiato (TTR 2000:160). / In October he was made a lance corporal for the Composite Signal Depot.

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pātaka

1. (noun) storehouse raised upon posts, pantry, larder.

I te wā i tū ai te pātaka whakairo a te Pōkiha Taranui ki Maketū, ka huaina e ia te ingoa ko te whare o tōna pāpā; kei te whare mātakitaki i Akarana taua pātaka (M 2005:242). / At the time that Te Pōkiha Taranui's carved storehouse stood at Maketū he named it after the name of his father's house; the storehouse is in the museum in Auckland.

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Synonyms: pātaka kai

2. (noun) a pattern of a finely woven basket.