2. (verb) to make peace - in the phrases tahi i te tahua, tahia te tahua or tahi te tahua.
Nā Te Purewa tonu i tahi te tahua i waenga i a rāua (TTR 1990:260). / Te Purewa himself had made peace between them.
Synonyms: hohou, hohou rongo, hohou te rongo, hou, hohou i te rongo, houhou, whawhau
2. (noun) fund, sum of money, finances.
He tangata māhorahora noa nei ia ki te whaikōrero, kitea ake ana hoki tōna hihiri ki ngā mahi tahua (TTR 2000:102). / He was a natural orator and his acumen at financial work was evident.
3. (noun) budget.
Ko ngā hua o te wā kore mahi o 1920–21, £20,000 te moni i tapahia mai i te tahua a te Tari o te Ora (TTR 1996:144). / As a result of the 1920–21 recession the Health Department's budget was cut by £20,000.
4. (noun) menu (computers).
tāhua
1. (noun) stencil, template.
Ko tētahi o ō ringa hei pēhi atu i te tāhua kia kore ai e nekeneke, ko tētahi hei tuhi haere i te āhua ki te pene rākau koi (HJ 2012:280). / One of your hands to press down on the stencil so that it doesn't move, the other to draw around the shape with a sharp pencil.
Me heke ngā werawera o Tāne-te-wānanga e ea ai ngā werawera o Tāne-tahua-roa
1. Do not waste the efforts of the cooks who make sure the participants or students of a wānanga (worlshop) are well fed for the duration of the kaupapa.
The student of a wānanga must exert great effort to repay the effort of the culinarian. /
tahuaroa
1. (noun) open space, space in front of the meeting house, courtyard - sometimes as tahua roa.
I whiua e aua rangatira ki te tahuaroa te kahu kiwi, te māhiti, te paepaeroa, te koroai: kei nga whare whakakitekite e iri ana hei mātakitaki mā te Pākehā (TTT 1/5/1922:6). / Those chiefs threw onto the open space kiwi feather cloaks, capes covered with long white hair of dogs' tails, and cloaks ornamented with black thrums. They are hanging in museums for Pākehā to view.
