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matekai

1. (stative) be hungry.

Ka mōmona ko te rangatira o te hōtēra i ngā moni a te pāpā, ka pōrangi ko ia i te waipiro, ka haere tahanga, matekai hoki, ko ngā tamariki me tō rātou kōkā (TP 5/1911:2). / The owner of the hotel grows fat from the money of the father who is crazy from alcohol, while the children and their mother go without anything and are starving.

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2. (noun) hunger, starvation.

Ka puta te matekai ki te pā o Te Whetū-matarau (TTR 1990:115). / Starvation overcame the people of the pā of Te Whetū-matarau.

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