2. (loan) (noun) doctor.
Nā te kaha o ngā tākuta Māori, o W. Maihi, ka hoki mai tōna wairua ora (TW 12/2/1875:8). / It was by the strength of the Māori doctors, and W. Marsh, that her living spirit returned.
3. (loan) (personal noun) Doctor - title for a doctor.
Hangaia ana e ia he whare haumanu ki te taha anō o te toa, kia tarea e ngā tākuta me ngā nēhi o te kaupapa whakaora a Tākuta G.M. Smith o Te Hokianga, ngā tūroro nei te tirotiro (TTR 2000:39). / She built a clinic alongside the store, where patients could be seen by doctors and nurses as part of Doctor G.M. Smith's Hokianga health service (DNZB 2000:113).
tohu tākuta
1. (loan) (noun) doctorate.
Ko te hunga tino hau kē nei ō rātau rongo, ko te wahine purei tēnehi rā, ko Ruia Morrison, ko ngā kaitākaro korowha nei, ko Walter Godfrey rāua ko Sherril Chapman, ko te toa tākaro poikōpiko, ko Neti Davis, ko te kaipūkenga ko Ralph Hōtere, ko te kaiwaiata, ko Kiri Te Kanawa, tae atu ki a Patariki (Pat) Hōhepa, i riro mai ai i a ia tana tohu tākuta (PhD) mō te mātauranga wetereo i te Hononga o Amerika (TTR 2000:236). / Most notable among these were the tennis player Ruia Morrison, golfers Walter Godfrey and Sherril Chapman, table tennis champion Neti Davis, artist Ralph Hōtere, singer Kiri Te Kanawa, and Pat Hōhepa, who was to achieve his PhD in linguistics in the United States.
tākuta hauora hinengaro
1. (loan) (noun) psychiatrist.
Synonyms: rata hauora hinengaro, mātanga mate hinengaro
tākuta whakaora paipai
1. (loan) (noun) venereologist.
Tukua kētia ana ia ki Tāneatua i Te Moana-a-Toi-te-huatahi, hei tākuta whakaora paipai; hōrapa ana hoki te mate pākewakewa ki ngā Māori o taua takiwā (TTR 1998:92). / Instead he was sent to Taneatua in the Bay of Plenty as a venereologist as syphilis had spread among the Maori population of that region.
