kāhu
1. (noun) swamp harrier, harrier hawk, Australasian harrier, Circus approximans gouldi - a large brown hawk with long-fingered wings which feeds on prey and carrion and is common on farmland, tussock land and swamps.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 20;)
Pērā hoki me Māui-pōtiki i tango rā i te āhua o te kāhu, o te kāeaea, o te ruru, o te kea, o te pekapeka, o te kiore, o te kererū, o te noke hoki; kātahi anō ka mate i a Hine-nui-te-pō i roto i tōna whare i Pōtaka-rongorongo. (JPS 1922:48). / It was thus that Māui-pōtiki took on the form of the harrier hawk, the New Zealand falcon, the morepork, the kea, the bat, the rat, the pigeon, and the worm; until he was finally killed by Hine-nui-te-pō in her house at Pōtaka-rongorongo.
2. (noun) swamp harrier, harrier hawk, Australasian harrier, Circus approximans gouldi - a large brown hawk with long-fingered wings which feeds on prey and carrion and is common on farmland, tussock land and swamps.
Ka karangatia e ia te kūkū, te kārearea, te kērangi, ka tae mai ki a ia (JPS 1928:373). / She called the New Zealand pigeon, the New Zealand falcon and the swamp harrier and they came to her.
2. (verb) to be unfinished, incomplete.
I whakarērea e ia tāna mahi, he mea waiho kia hukihuki noa (RTA 2014:92). / He abandoned his task, leaving it unfinished.
3. (modifier) unfinished, incomplete, partial.
Nō tana oranga mai, ka mahi a Pēneti ki raro i a Meiha Tianara Howard Kippenberger i te Puna Kōrero Tuku Iho mō te Pakanga o te Tari Taiwhenua, e tuhi ana i tētehi tuhinga hukihuki mō te hītori o te hokowhitu Māori (TTR 2000). / After his recovery Bennett worked under Major General Howard Kippenberger with the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs writing the draft of the Māori Battalion’s history.
4. (noun) spit for roasting food.
Me tunu tā tātou manu ki te hukihuki (PK 2008:151). / Our bird should be cooked on a spit.
5. (noun) draft, unfinished document, unfinished sample.
Ko te korowai i tukuna e koe, haere hukahuka ana (W 1971:68). / The korowai cloak that you sent came as a sample.
6. (noun) convulsion, spasm, twitch, seizure.
I a ia i te tangihanga mō te pouaru a Hopere, ka pāngia a ia e te hukihuki ohorere (TTR 1996:268). / While attending the funeral of Hopere's widow, he suffered a seizure.
7. (noun) swamp coprosma, Coprosma tenuicaulis - shrub up to 3 m tall with slender spreading branches often interlaced giving a twiggy appearance. Small leaves with a network of veins evident on both sides. Small round drupes are black.
pākura
1. (noun) pūkeko, purple swamp hen, Porphyrio porphyrio - a deep blue-coloured bird with a black head and upperparts, a white undertail and a scarlet bill that inhabits wetlands, estuaries and damp pasture areas.
He manu hauwarea noa te pākura (pūkeko ki ētahi) (TTT 1/9/1927:657). / The swamp hen (called a pūkeko by some) is a lean bird.
See also pūkeko
Synonyms: tangata tawhito, pūkeko
2. (noun) red glow (in the sky).
poke
1. (verb) (-a) to swamp, overcome, inundate.
I a rāua e kawea ana ki tātahi, ka pokea te poti e te mahi a te ngaru (TTR 2000:8). / As they were being transported to shore, the boat was swamped by many waves.
Koia nei te mate o taku mahi, ka pokea au e te mahi. / That's the problem with my job, I get inundated with work.
Synonyms: kake, where, pāpā, wikitōria, whakatina, tārū, hinga, poko, raupatu, tae, takapapa, pārure, whakatūoi, mate, whara
pokipoki
1. (verb) (-a,-na) to place with the concave surface down, pat, cover over, swamp, overrun, spread over.
2. (noun) baited rat trap.
Ka whakatakotoria ngā tāwhiti me ngā pokipoki ki ngā ara kiore i te wao (Te Ara 2016). / Unbaited traps and baited traps were set on the rat tracks in the forest.
3. (noun) fingering (of a wind instrument).
Ko te pokipoki te mahi a ngā matimati ki te kōpani, ki te whakapuare anō i ngā wenewene o tētahi taonga puoro (RTP 2015:76). / Fingering is the work of the fingers to cover and open the holes in a wind instrument (RTP 2015:76).
2. (noun) lid, cover.
Ka tohua e Ao-kehu tōna iwi kia whakaawaawa i tētahi rākau e uru ai he tangata ki roto. Whāia, me hanga he popoki (Te Ara 2012). / Ao-kehu instructed his people to hollow out a log so that a man would fit inside. A lid was then made.
3. (noun) patella, kneecap.
Hei tiaki te popoki i te wāhanga a mua o te turipona. / The kneecap protects the part in front of the knee joint.
3. (noun) pūkeko, purple swamp hen, Porphyrio porphyrio - a deep blue-coloured bird with a black head and upperparts, a white undertail and a scarlet bill that inhabits wetlands, estuaries and damp pasture areas.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 166;)
He manu hauwarea noa te pākura (pūkeko ki ētahi) (TTT 1/9/1927:657). / The swamp hen (called a pūkeko by some) is a lean bird.
Synonyms: tangata tawhito, pākura
tapukōrako
1. (noun) bird with white feathers, white swamp harrier - the plummage of a kāhu fade as the bird ages and some older adult males becomes pale grey.
Te ritenga o te tapukōrako, he kāhu. E rua hoki ngā kāhu, kotahi mea whero, kotahi kāhu mā. Anā, ko te kāhu mā te kōrako. Koia i whakataukītia ai te kiri mā, 'me tapukōrako te kiri o mea' (Biggs 1997:119). / A tapukōrako is a hawk. There are two hawks, one is reddish and the other is white. The white hawk is the kōrako. Thus it is said of a white skin, 'So-and-so's skin is like that of the sacred white hawk.'
See also kōrako
wairepo
1. (noun) swamp, bog, marsh.
Ka mahia e rātou ngā wairepo, ka whakatōkia ki te raihi. / They developed swamps and planted rice.
See also repo
reporepo
1. (modifier) be swampy, marshy.
E hia tau kē nei rātou e kaha ana te pukumahi ki te keri wāra hei whakamaroke i ngā whenua reporepo, ururua hoki, me te whakakīkī haere anō i ngā whāruarua i mahue mai (TTR 1996:46). / They worked energetically for many years draining the swampy and scrub-covered land and filling the hollows.
Synonyms: pōwharuwharu, oru, ngaeki, kōreporepo
2. (noun) swamp, marsh.
Kāore nei he maunga, he pari, he awaawa, he reporepo, he aha noa atu, heoi anō he raorao anake (TWMNT 25/3/1873:33). / There are no mountains, cliffs, valleys, swamps or anything, but just lowlands.
2. (verb) (pōkia) to overrun, inundate, swamp.
E pōkia ana rātou e ngā taua maha o te motu e whakaeke ana ki te tango i Heretaunga hei kāinga mō rātou (TTT 1/12/1929:1934). / They were overrun by many war parties of the island attacking them to take Heretaunga as their home.
romi
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to squeeze, press, seize, grasp, gently rub.
Kaua e romia te kakau o te rākau haupōro, me ngāwari noa te pupuri (PK 2008:784). / Don't squeeze the handle of the golf club, it should be held gently.
Synonyms: kuene, nonoi, whakakuene, perehi, kāuto, ao pāpāho, hopu, rawhirawhi, rawhi, kōhaki, herepū, hopuhopu, kōwhakiwhaki, rarahu, rarawhi, aurara
2. (verb) (-a) to strangle, throttle, garrotte.
Nō te tuatoru ka romia e Te Pōhutu, ka mate te wahine muringa rā (M 2005:304). / On the third time she was strangled by Te Pōhutu, and so the junior wife died.
3. (verb) (-a,-tia) to carry out infanticide.
Ka whānau mai he tamāroa, ka whakaorangia pea tērā e ngā mātua, kia ora ai he tangata hāpai patu; ka whānau mai he kōtiro, ka romia (TMT 1/10/1861:7-8). / When a first son is born that one is probably allowed to live by the parents so that he would be a person to carry a weapon; but when a girl is born, she's is killed by suffocation.
4. (verb) (-a) to plunder, rob.
Nā te kōti whenua ka puhake ngā kino katoa: te kōrero parau, te tāhae, te hae, te whakamauāhara, te whanokē, te aroha-kore, te ngākau apo. Ahakoa mōhiotia te tika o te tangata ki te whenua ka romia, ka patua (TTT 1/8/1925:278). / Because of the land court all the evils became apparent: telling lies, stealing, envy, hatred, erratic behaviour, lack of compassion and greed. Despite the rights of people to land they were robbed and defeated.
Synonyms: hone, pārure, whakarekereke, marure, mūrei, muru, pāhua, pāhuahua, kōhunu, keiā, whānako, whēnako, tāhae, kaiā, hunuhunu
tahuri
1. (verb) (-tia) to turn, accept.
Kātahi ka hoatu ngā moni ki ngā Māori, ki te kore e tahuritia aua moni e rātou kātahi ka mahia i raro i ngā tikanga o te Ture mō ngā Rerewē (TW 24/11/1874:44). / Then the money was offered to the Māori, and if that price was not accepted by them, then the matter was dealt with under the procedures of the Railways Act.
Synonyms: whakaae
2. (verb) to be sunk, capsized, overturned.
I te moana te waka nei ka aituā ka tahuri ki waho o Te Kohekohe, he wāhi e tata ana ki Uawa. Ka tahuri rā te waka, ka pupuri ētahi ki te waka, ka kau ia a Te Manuhou me tētahi atu ki uta (TP 8/1905:5). / While at sea off Te Kohekohe, a place near Tolaga Bay, this vessel had a mishap and capsized. When the vessel capsized some clung to the vessel, but Te Manuhou and another swam ashore.
Synonyms: whakataupoki, takahuri, porohuri, urupoki, huripokinga, tūpoki, whakatakahuri, totohu, torongi, whakarukuruku, paremo, taupunga, puoto, kāraha
3. (verb) to be turned, set about, turn over, turn to, set to work.
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.
4. (verb) to be swamped, flooded, inundated.
He pā tēnei kāore i tahuri i ngā waipuke o mua, hei tēnei waipuke ka tahuri (TP 8/1906:11). / This fort had not been swamped by floods before, but in this flood it was swamped.
5. (verb) to be overthrown (of a pā).
Ka tika kē mai taua taua ki Hātaitai, ki Uruhau, ki Te Aka-tarewa, ki Te Wai-hirere, kia tahuri ēnei pā (JPS 1919:90). / The war party headed straight for Hātaitai, Uruhau, Te Aka-tarewa and Te Wai-hirere to overthrow these pā.
2. (noun) open water in a swamp.
