korara
1. (verb) to go in different directions, disperse, scatter, spread out.
Ka hopukia hoki ētehi o ngā pononga, tukua ana te nuinga kia korara (TTR 1994:174). / Some of the captives were arrested but the majority were allowed to disperse.
Synonyms: maheu, tohatoha, toha, kaihora, rū, rure, rauroha, whakaehu, whakakorakora, hora, paratī, rara, rui, heuheu, kaupāpari, whakamarara, whakatakataka, whakapirara
2. (modifier) dispersed, scattered, spread-out.
I whakapae ngā mihingare Karaitiana, he Hūrae ngā tīpuna o te Māori, nō ngā iwi korara o Iharaira (Te Ara 2016). / Christian missionaries suggested that the ancestors of Māori were Jews, belonging to the scattered tribes of Israel.
Synonyms: katea, tīrangorango, kūwawa, maheu, mirara, pirara, mahora, marara, kaupararī, tīrara, tīrararara, papata, wawā, wāwā, whakawawā, makatea, mātiritiri, kaupāpari, kātohatoha, pahara, paihore, whakapirara, pīwawa, tīrangaranga
3. (noun) dispersion.
