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mahara

1. (experience verb) (-tia) to think about, consider.

Mahara noa a Tiopira kua mate ina hoki te roa e ngaro ana ki raro, mahue atu i a ia tana rāti (TP 10/1902:11). / Tiopira thought that it was dead due to the length of time it had been below, so he put down his harpoon.

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2. (experience verb) (-tia) to remember, recollect, bear in mind, know.

Kātahi ka haere ngā tāngata ki te moe, ka ora hoki te ngākau i te kohu kua mahea, e mahara ana ka rere pai tēnā tō rātou kaipuke ki te kāinga (TWMNT 10/3/1874:63). / Then the people went to sleep relieved that the fog had cleared and knowing that their ship could sail home.

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Synonyms: hua, matatau, mātau, pūrangiaho, mōhio, whakamahara, whakamaumahara, manatu, maumahara


3. (experience verb) to be anxious.

Ka mahara anō te ngākau o te hoa o Hakawau, ka mea, "Kei konei pea māua mate ai" (NM 1928:148). / Hakawau's friend was anxious again and said, "Perhaps it is here that we will die."

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4. (modifier) thoughtful.

He wahine ngākau mahara, he marere, he nihowera i āna mahi manaaki i ōna whanaunga, i ōna hoa Māori me te tini noa atu o te Pākehā (TTR 1994:18). / She was a thoughtful gracious woman and a generous host who gave hospitality to her relatives, her Māori friends as well as many Pākehā.

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5. (noun) recollection, thought, memory, reasoning.

Nō tō mātau haerenga he wareware anake i a au taku hāmanu ki te wāhi i noho rā mātau. Kotahi māero pea mātau e haere ana, kātahi anō au ka puta mahara ake ki taku hāmanu, heoi ko taku hokinga mai tēnei ki te tiki i taku hāmanu (TPH 15/7/1901:3). / When we set off I forgot my ammunition which was at the place we were camped at. We had travelled approximately one mile when I finally remembered my ammunition and so I returned to get it.

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Synonyms: maumaharatanga, hokinga mahara, pūmaharatanga, whakamahara


6. (noun) spleen.

Ka oti te tinana, ka kumea ngā ringaringa, ka kumea ngā waewae, ka pokaia te tara, ka kumea ngā raho, ka whakanohoia ngā puapua, ngā werewere, ngā hanahana, te katitohe, ka kumea te tonetone, ka pokaia te kumu, ka whakanohoia te piro me te puku, te mahara, te ate, ngā tākihi, te tōngāmimi, ka hangā te ārai, ka oti katoa ngā mea o te tinana (HWM 27). / When the body was completed, the arms and legs were drawn out, the vagina was pierced, the labia majora was drawn out, and the ovaries, the labia minora, the vulva, and the hymen were implanted, the clitoris was drawn out, the anus was pierced and the odour, the stomach, the spleen, the liver, the kidneys and the bladder were implanted, and the diaphragm was made and the body was completed.

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