2. (modifier) bright (of colours), tightly, fast, intensely - follows and intensifies colour words, including white.
Pēnei i a tātou nei, moe ai te āhuruhuru i te pō. Ko te mea rerekē i a tātou, ka huri whero kitakita tō rātou tae ina moe ana rātou (TWK 36:11). / Like us, the goatfish sleeps at night. The thing that is different from us is that their colour turns bright red when they are sleeping.
3. (noun) intensity (of colour).
Inā te rerehua o te kaui ki tāku titiro, nā te kitakita o ngā tae (RTA 2014:99). / In my observation, the appeal of the mobile is the intensity of the colours.
4. (noun) miniature, anything very small.
Ko ngā rīwai tino moroiti nei ka kīia e taku kuia he kitakita (PK 2008:267). / My grandmother called the very small potatoes 'kitakita' (miniatures).
Synonyms: mākari
