2. (modifier) folded once, having one aspect, united, single.
Pū ngātahi ai te ngākau tapatahi me te pukumahi i te wahine nei, i riwhariwha nei te whatumanawa i te matenga o te maha o tōna whānau (TTR 2000:30). / This woman combined integrity with hard work, despite a heart scarred by the deaths of many of her family.
Synonyms: tōtahi, takakau, tahi, kotahi, kōtahitahi, takitahi
3. (noun) uprightness, honesty, righteousness, vitue.
He pai ki te rawakore e haere ana i runga i tōna tapatahi, i te tangata he parori kē ōna ara, ahakoa he whai taonga ia (PT Nga Whakatauki 28:6). / Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
4. (noun) small fish basket - made of toetoe leaves for holding fish.
E rua tapatahi inanga, ka hoatu ēnā ki te aroaro o Kahu rātou ko ōna hoa tohunga (W 1971:383). / There were two baskets of whitebait, and those were placed in front of Kahu and his fiends.
whiore tapatahi
1. (noun) single file formation or movement of a haka group.
Ko te whiore tapatahi, te haukaiwahine rānei: He takitahi te neke a te kapa, tētahi kaihaka ki muri i tētahi (RMR 2017). / The whiore tapatahi or single file formation: The movement of the rank is in single file, one performer behind another.
ngākau tapatahi
1. (modifier) impartial, neutral, fair, unbiased, even-handed, non-partisan, unprejudiced.
E kī pēnei ana ngā kōrero mōna, arā, he tangata ngākau tapatahi, he tangata tino kokoi te hinengaro, ā, he tangata hūmarie, aroha ki te tangata (TTR 1990:387). / The accounts about him speak of him as a fair man of exceptional intelligence, a pleasant and kind person.
Synonyms: arero taiaha
2. (noun) impartiality, integrity, neutrality, fairness, even-handedness, non-partisanship.
Ko ngā kupu poroporoaki mōna, e whakahua ana i te tōkeke o tōna ngākau tapatahi me tōna whakaaro pai ki te Pākehā (TTR 1994:119). / The obituary for him recalled his strict integrity and his goodwill towards Pākehā.
