whika
1. (loan) (verb) (-ia,-ngia) to cipher, do sums, compute, calculate.
He nui o aua tamariki e mōhio ana ki te kōrero i te reo Pākehā, ā he mōhio aua tamariki ki te whika, ki te tuhituhi (TW 14/9/1878:455). / A large number of the young people can converse in the English language in an intelligent manner, and all can calculate and write.
2. (loan) (noun) figure, number.
Ehara i a mātou te hē i ēnei whika, nā te tino kāwanatanga anō ēnei whika i mahi, nā konei i kīia ai nā mātou te aha (TW 25/9/1875:241). / The errors in the figures in this table are as given by the government, therefore we are not accountable for the discrepancy.
3. (loan) (noun) arithmetic, mathematics.
Ā, i kite mātou i ngā pukapuka whika a aua tamariki Māori me aua tamariki Pākehā, ā i tino rite te pai o aua tamariki Māori ki aua tamariki Pākehā i tuhituhi ai, i whika ai (TW 14/9/1878:457). / And we looked at the arithmetic books of those Māori and Pākehā children and the quality of the writing and arithmetic done by the Māori children was just as good as that by the Pākeha children.
Synonyms: pāngarau
4. (loan) (noun) page number.
Kei te 12 o ngā whika o taua 'Karere' i tāia i a Pēpuere, 1862 (MM.TKM 1/5/1862:17). / They occur at the 12th page of the 'Messenger', published on February, 1862.
