tūpāpaku
1. (noun) corpse, deceased, cadaver, deceased person's body.
Ko Te Tapuwae tonu te urupā rongonui o roto o Rūātoki. Tae rawa mai ki te tau 1955, kua kōpāpā rawa hai tanu tūpāpaku (TTR 1990:238). / Te Tapuwae remains the important burial place in Rūātoki. By 1955 it had become too crowded for further burials.
2. (noun) sick person, seriously ill person, terminally ill person, invalid, sufferer - not a common usage in modern Māori.
Ki te pāngia te tangata e te mate, ka tīkina te tākuta, ka tae mai, ka titiro i te mate, ka homai he rongoā, whakatūtū rawa he ture, kia kaua te tūpāpaku e kai i ngā kai kua tuhia ake nei (TPH 27/2/1905:2). / If a person is struck down by an illness, the doctor is fetched and when he arrives he will look at the problem and prescribe some medicine, pointing out some rules that the sick person should not eat the foods that he has listed.
3. (noun) intended victim to be killed.
Kātahi ka tahuri ki te tupe i te tūpāpaku; nā, kua ngoikore te tūpāpaku, heoti anō ka mau (NM 1928:101). / Then he set about doing the tupe ritual spell on the intended victim; and the target victim became weak and so was caught.
waka tūpāpaku
1. (noun) burial chest, coffin, canoe for a corpse.
I te ūnga ki uta o ngā waka tūpāpaku rā ka peke atu ngā uri o Toroa-ihurua ka haria ngā tūpāpaku rā ka kainga hei whakaea i tō rātou mate (NIT 1995:253). / When the canoes of bodies came ashore Toroa-ihurua's descendants took those bodies and ate them to avenge their defeat.
2. (noun) vault (for the dead).
He mea nehu ki te whare tūpāpaku o ngā Kara kai te taha tonu o te urupā o Mākaraka (TTR 1996:21). / She was buried in the Carroll vault beside the Mākaraka cemetery.
2. (noun) cremation.
Ko ngā whakahaere katoa o tēnei mea, o te tahu tūpāpaku ki te ahi tētehi kōrero pai mā tātou, e koro mā (TP 10/1907:10). / All the organisational matters of cremation are important for us to discuss, my elders.
