2. (noun) window.
Ko te tito kōrero, he mataaho ki te ihomatua o te tangata (PK 2008:165). / Creative expression is the window into a person's mind.
3. (noun) viewfinder.
pihanga
1. (noun) window, sliding slab of the traditional window of a wharenui.
Ka rapurapu noa ia i tētahi maro, i tētahi tū mōna, nōwhea hoki i kitea? Kātahi ia ka rere atu ki te kukume mai i ngā puru o te pihanga, o te whatitoka; kukume rawa mai, anana, kua tīkokekoke noa ake te rā o waho (NM 1928:8). / She searched everywhere for a maro , a girdle for herself, but could she find one anywhere? Then she rushed to pull out the plugs in the window and door, and when she finally pulled them out, low and behold the sun outside was high in the heavens.
puta auahi
1. (noun) window opening, vent, smoke outlet.
Ka karanga a Rongokārae, "Wāhia te apai o te whare." Kātahi te whitu tekau tāngata rā ka turaki i te apai o te whare, o te puta auahi, hinga katoa (TP 5/1913:10). / Rongokārae called, "Smash down the front wall of the house." Then the seventy men demolished the front wall of the house and the window opening, it all fell.
tō
1. (verb) (-ia) to drag, haul, pull, open or shut (a sliding door or window).
Ka hopukina au, kātahi ka tō haeretia ki te awa (HP 1991:20). / I was caught and then dragged along to the stream.
Synonyms: kumekume, kāhakihaki, kukume, kume
2. (verb) (-ia) to drag (computers) - move an item on the screen by touching the item on a screen and then sliding the finger across the screen or by pressing and holding down the left mouse button while moving the mouse.
3. (verb) (-ia) to open or shut (a sliding door or window).
4. (noun) dragging, pulling.
Kāre tahi kā tākata o te kāika i mahara, ē he hoariri tēnei. Heoi, ka whanatu rātau ki te mau neke atu kia pai ai te tō mai i kā waka ki uta, me te whāwhai atu anō ō rātau ki te tō i kā waka ki uta (JPS 1901:89). / The people of the place had no idea that this was a hostile party, and therefore they proceeded to take down skids in order to facilitate hauling the canoes ashore, and hastened to assist in dragging them up.
5. (noun) portage.
E kī ana te kōrero i tōia te waka mā te tō waka kei Tāmaki i mua i te haerenga ki Hokianga mā te takutai moana (Te Ara 2013). / It is said that the canoe was dragged across the Auckland isthmus via the canoe portage before travelling along the coast to Hokianga.
Synonyms: tōanga waka
2. (modifier) pied, flecked - varied with patches of colour. Used for stained glass, e.g. matapihi ōpure (stained glass window).
Ko te tohu whakamaharatanga mōna he matapihi ōpure kei te whare karakia Māori o Moeraki (TTR 1990:352). / There are stained glass windows in the Māori church at Moeraki as a memorial to him.
He tohu whakamaharatanga tēnei mataaho ōpure mō ngā hōia o Ngāti Porou i hinga i te Pakanga Tuatahi o e Ao (Te Ara 2016). / This stained glass window is a memorial to the soldiers of Ngāti Porou who fell in the First World War.
