mangumangu
1. (modifier) black.
Ko te whakaahua kei runga tonu ake o taua ingoa he tangata mangumangu kei roto i te tāpu wai. E rua ngā Pākehā kei te horoi i a ia ki te paraihe, ki te hopi (TTT 1/10/1921:5). / The illustration just above that name is of a black person in a bathtub. There are two Pākehā washing him with brushes and soap.
2. (adjective) be black.
Ko te āhua o ngā hōiho, he mā tētahi, he mangumangu tētahi (TKP 6/9/1858:1). / The colour of the horses: one is white, the other is black.
3. (noun) person of black skin, Black.
Ko te kura tēnei kua riro i a rātau ki te pō; ko te whakaakoranga tēnei kei te hapa i tēnei whakatipuranga tangata, i mea ai pea rātau ki te whakaiti i a rātau nā taonga tuku iho, ka rere ki ā te Pākehā, ki ā te Mangumangu, ki ā ērā atu iwi (M 2006:42). / This is a treasure which they have taken with them to the realms of night; this is a branch of knowledge in which present-day generations are lacking and having belittled their own cultural heritage, they have turned to the Pākehā, the Blacks and to other races (M 2006:43).
4. (noun) ink.
Mehemea he pepa katoa te ao, he mangumangu katoa te wai, he parāoa, he tīhi anake ngā tai, he aha rā he inu mā tātau? (Ng 1993:229). / If all the world were paper, and all the water ink, and all the seas were bread and cheese, what would we have to drink? (Ng 1993:229).
