whawhaki
1. (verb) (whakia,-na) to gather, pick, pluck (fruit, etc.).
Te hīmoemoe hoki o te āporo nei - kāore e kore i whakia matatia mai (PK 2008:112). / This apple is sour - no doubt it was picked green.
Synonyms: whakiwhaki
2. (modifier) picking, plucking, gathering, harvesting (by picking).
Ka oti tērā kātahi ka tango mai i ngā tāngata whawhaki, hei te wāhine hei te tamariki, ka whakatūria kia tokotoru, kia tokowhā rānei i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha o taua mea (TWMNT 7/3/76:52). / When that's completed the pickers, who are women and children, take it and three or four stand on each side of that thing.
3. (noun) picking, plucking, gathering, harvesting (by picking).
Kātahi ka tīmata te whawhaki i ngā puāwai (TWMNT 7/3/1876:52). / Then the picking of the flowers begins.
whāwhāki
1. (verb) to reveal, disclose.
Ko te kōrero hoki e tūtai ana a Te Whiwhi, arā, ko ia i te whāwhāki ki a Kāwana Hōri Kerei mō te āhua o ngā putunga kariri ki te rohe o Pari-ā-rua (Porirua) (TTR 1990:345). / Te Whiwhi is said to have kept surveillance for Governor George Grey, informing him about ammunition stores in the Porirua district.
Synonyms: whakaatu, whakakite, whakapuaki, whāki, puaki, whakakakau, tuwhiri
2. (adjective) revelatory, revealing, informative.
Ka neke nei a Piri ki Waahi, noho ana ia hei hoa whāwhāki, hēkeretari hoki mā Korokī (TTR 1998:145). / Piri moved to Waahi, where he became a confidant and secretary for Korokī.
Synonyms: whakakite
3. (noun) disclosure, revealing, informing, disclosing, leak.
Ko te kōrero a Te Whakatōhea, he whāwhāki kē nā Te Wākana i ā rātou whakamahere ki te āwhina i a Waikato, ki te whawhai ki ngā Pākehā, i patua ai (TTR 1990:59). / Te Whakatōhea claimed that the Reverend Carl Sylvius Völkner was killed because he informed the Pākehā of their plan to the assist Waikato in their fight against the Pākehā.
