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waengarahi

1. (location) the middle, among, midst, amid, between, the intervening space - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence.

waengarahi o te tahi o ngā hāora tango atu ki te rua (TPM 9/3/1963:15). / Within one hour it sank.

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See also waengapū

Synonyms: waengapū, poka pū, pokapū, pokapūtanga, , waenganui, waenga, kōpū


2. (noun) middle, midst, intervening space, heart.

Tēnā pea nō te tekau tau atu i 1840 i whānau ai a Te Pairi Tūterangi, i Maungapōhatu i te waengarahi o Te Urewera (TTR 1996:218). / Te Pairi Tūterangi was born probably in the 1840s at Maungapōhatu, in the heart of the Urewera country.

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