tāpae
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to lay one on another, stack, place before a person, lie in wait, lie in a slanting position or across, present.
He tangata atawhai nui ia ki te tāpae kai ki ngā tāngata katoa me ka tae ki tōna kāinga; e kore rawa hoki e tukua e ia te tira manuhiri kia haere ana, āpānoa kia takoto he hākari māna ki ia tangata ki ia tangata o rātou, te iti me te rahi (TWMNT 21/4/1874:95). / He was a generous person who provided food to everybody if they visited his village; he would never ever let a party of visitors leave until he had laid out a feast for each person, whether of lowly status or of importance.
Synonyms: tauwhanga, taupua, pehipehi, tauhanga, tāwhanga, whakamoho, perehana, tuku, whiu, kōparepare, hākari, tuari, koha, onāianei, whakaari, whakawhiwhi, whakahiku
2. (verb) to submit, table - a document, e.g. a petition.
Anei rā tā mātou rārangi huatau i tāpae ai ki te aroaro o ngā whakahaere, whare hoko o te motu (HM 3/1994:8). / Here are our suggestions that were submitted before the country's managers and businesses.
3. (modifier) across, slanting.
4. (noun) scout, advance party, present, ambush.
Ka haere te ope nei ka tae ki Waiharakeke, mā ruka i kā waka taua, ka waiho te matua i reira, ka tukuna ko te tāpae hei haere ki te titiro (JPS 1901:92). / This force travelled as far as Waiharakeke in their war canoes, and there left the main body, whilst the advance party went on to reconnoitre.
Synonyms: toro, torotoro, ārohi, hunuhunu, hūhunu, pūrahorua, tūtai, tūtei
2. (verb) (-a,-ia,-ina,-ngia) to recite, perform.
Kātahi a Rauarikiao ka whakahau ki te tini o te ngārara kia tōia tō rātou waka. Ka tapaia te ngeri tō e Rauarikiao, te kīnga katoatanga o te waha o te ngārara ki tā rātou ngeri, i a rātou e tō ana i tō rātou waka (TWMNT 22/8/1876:202). / Rauarikiao then commanded the multitude of reptiles to drag their canoe. Then Rauarikiao recited the canoe launching chant and all the reptiles joined in with their ngeri as they dragged their canoe.
Synonyms: whakarite, whakaatu, whakaataata, whakahua, whakahaere, whakatūtū, mahi, hahaka, haka, tātaku, kauwhau, kauhau, taki, whakahuahua, pānui, whakataki, takitaki
2. (noun) bar (music).
tāpae toto
1. (noun) blood gift, gift in recognition of extraordinary service, obligation, or esteem.
Heoi, ka tango au i taku ritenga Māori ka hoatu ki a koe te kaitaka me te pounamu hei whakanui i te ingoa o tērā kua mate nei he ritenga tēnei e kīia ana he tāpae toto (TWMNT 6/2/1877:49). / And so I take my Māori custom and present you with a kaitaka cloak and greenstone to honour the name of he who has gone, this is a custom called a tāpae toto.
Ka whai take rā mātou ngā uri ki te tohe mō tō mātou noho tūturu, hāunga i runga i te tāpae toto anake, engari mā roto i te whakapapa ka hono i a mātou ki a Ngāti Maru me ngā iwi noho tai (a statement by Pakaariki Harrison of Ngāti Porou - Te Ara 2014)). / It gave us, the descendants, the right to argue the permanence of our tenure, not only in terms of the tāpae toto but in the preceding whakapapa that linked us through to Ngāti Maru from Ahuahu right through Ngāti Maru and all coastal people (Te Ara 2014).
Synonyms: kawenga, takohanga, taumahatanga, kawenga taumaha, utanga, here, herenga
