hepara
1. (loan) (noun) zebra, Equus burchelli.
…i kite ai rātou i ngā tinana o ngā kararehe i kōrerotia nei i roto i ngā pukapuka kura, i te raiona, i te taika, i te arewhana, i te kāmera, i te hepara me ērā tini huhua o ngā kīrehe o te pārae… (TP 1/1907:5). / …they saw the bodies of animals that I had read of in school books, the lion, the tiger, the elephant, the camel, the zebra and the many varieties of animals of the plains…