ngahurutanga
1. (noun) decade, ten years.
I te ngahurutanga tuatoru o te rau tau 1800–1899, ka tupu tētahi pakanga i waenga i a Ngāi Tahu tonu, nō te mea i whakamaniorotia a Tama-i-hara-nui (TTR 1990:146). / In the third decade of the nineteenth century a war developed among Ngāi Tahu because Tama-i-hara-nui was insulted.
kumi
1. (noun) a traditional measurement of ten mārō, fathom - a measurement of about two metres.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 114;)
Hohoro tonu te here i ngā kārewa e rua ki ngā pokihiwi, oti kau anō ka totohu te kaipuke ki te wai, kumi mā ono te hōhonu, pupuri ai rātou ki ngā kārewa me ngā rākau i teretere, me kore rātou e ora i ēnei (THM 1/4/1888:2). / Hurriedly he fastened two floats around his shoulders, whereupon the ship sank in sixteen fathoms of water, with them clinging to the buoys and loose spars hoping they could survive with these.
See also takoto
2. (noun) huge fabulous monster.
He maha ngā taniwha he ngārara, he kumi rānei (Te Ara 2016). / There were many taniwha known as ngārara or kumi.
tekau
1. (numeral) ten, 10 - originally it meant 20 as it, or its cognate forms, do in other eastern Polynesian languages. Tekau combines with other words to form the numbers from 11 to 99.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 5; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 12;)
Kotahi rau e toru tekau mātau i te kura (HP 1991:32). / There were one hundred and thirty of us in the school.
2. (numeral) tenth - when used with this meaning it is preceded by te and followed by o.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 5; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 12;)
Nō te tekau o Ākuhata ka haere mātou. / On the tenth of August we departed.
ngahuru
1. (numeral) ten, tenth (following te) - used in a similar way to tekau but less frequently. Combines with other words to form the numbers from 11 to 19.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 12;)
Ā pēnei tonu tae rawa ki te ngahuru o ngā rāngi (NM 1928:177). / And it continued like this until he reached the tenth heaven.
I te wā ka tae ki te ngahuru mā whā o ngā rā ka tae katoa mai ngā tohunga nei ki te mahi i te waka nei (JPS 1957:223). / When it came to the fourteenth day all the experts came to work on the canoe.
Hei te tīmatanga o ngā ua o te marama ngahuru ka tipu haere ēnei kai ki runga i te ākau (Te Ara 2016). / It grows on the reef at the beginning of the rains of the tenth month.
See also ngahuru mā tahi, ngahuru mā rua, ngahuru mā toru, ngahuru mā whā, ngahuru mā rima, ngahuru mā ono, ngahuru mā whitu, ngahuru mā waru, ngahuru mā iwa, tekau, tuangahuru
2. (noun) tenth month of the Māori year, autumn, harvest time - approximately equivalent to March.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 12;)
Haria mai ana e ia he paruparu nō te awa, ngā rau e horohoro nei i te tino ngahuru, he whenua tawhito anō hoki, mahia katoatia ana e ia hei whakamōmona i tana pāmu (TH 1/12/1859:3). / He carries soil from the river, leaves that fall in the autumn as it is old ground and he does it all to make his farm fertile.
whiri taurakeke
1. (noun) square rope of ten strands.
Synonyms: tari-karakia, tuapuku, tuamaka, tari-kākāriki, rauru, whiri papa, whiri kawe, kārure, tōpuku, whiri pāraharaha, whiri pekapeka, whiri iwituna, tātoru
anga tekau
1. (noun) tens frame (maths).
Arā anō tētahi rauemi matua mō te whakaako i te wāwāhi tau hei whakaoti tāpiritanga, tangihanga hoki. Ko te anga tekau tērā (TRP 2010:318). / There is another important resource for teaching decomposition to solve addition and subtraction. That is the tens frame.
pūnaha tekau
1. (noun) decimal system, base ten system.
Koia nei ngā tohutau o tā tātou pūnaha tau. Tekau ngā tohutau, nā te mea he pūnaha tekau: {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} (TRP 2010:211). / These are the numerals of our number system. There are ten numerals because it is a decimal system: {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} (TRP 2010:211).
Mohi
1. (loan) (personal name) Moses (c.14th-13th centuries BC) - Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites away from servitude in Egypt to the Promised Land. Wrote the Ten Commandments on stone tablets.
Ko Mohi: Nāna a Iharaira i whakaputa atu i Īhipa (Ma 1844:15). / Moses: who brought Israel out of Egypt.
Tiuteronomi
1. (loan) (personal noun) Deuteronomy - the fifth book of the Bible containing a recapitulation of the Ten Commandments and much of the Mosaic law.
Tirohia iho i āna kei a Tiuteronomi 17 o ngā upoko, 15 o ngā rārangi (TJ 12/10/1899:4). / Look at what he says in Deuteronomy, chapter 17, verse 15.
Tūwhare, Hone
1. (personal name) (1922-2008) Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Korokoro, Ngāti Tautahi, Te Popoto, Te Uri-o-Hau - Renowned Poet and socialist who was born at Kokewai, Mangakāhia but spent most of the second part of his life at Kaka Point on the Catlins coast. Poetry collections include No Ordinary Sun and Come Rain Hail. Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1969 and again in 1974. At the end of his two year term he published Piggy Back Moon which was shortlisted in the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Awarded the University of Auckland Literary Fellowship in 1991. Named New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate in 1999. Among ten of Aotearoa/New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists at a ceremony in 2003. In 2003, awarded one of the three inaugural Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement.
