aronga
1. (noun) direction, facing.
Te urunga atu o Tama-inu-pō haere tonu, ā, ka pahemo i te takuahi i te aronga ake ki te ihonui, kātahi anō ka huri mai (NIT 1995:121). / Tama-inu-pō entered and went straight on past the hearth that faced the floor space at the front of the house and only then turned round.
2. (noun) focus, interest, desire.
Ko te mahi tuhituhi i ngā whakapapa me ngā kōrero tuku iho a Tainui te aronga tuatahi, te aronga nui a Pei (TTR 1998:72). / Pei's first and main focus was in the recording of Tainui genealogies and traditions.
3. (noun) sense, separate meaning (of a word, phrase or sentence), definition.
Ka urutaungia te kupu tāngata whenua kia pā ki ngā iwi me ngā hapū, e whai kanohi ake ai rātou i te manene. Ko ētahi anō aronga o tēnei kupu ko te iwi tuatahi, ko te iwi manaaki hoki (Te Ara 2015). / Māori also adapted the term ‘tangata whenua’ (people of the land), to refer to iwi and hapū, as distinct from non-Māori. Other meanings of this term are 'the first people' and ‘host people’.
4. (noun) purpose.
Ka tū ake ahau ki te tautoko i tēnei Pire, nō te mea ki tōku whakaaro e tika ana te aronga o tēnei Pire - arā e āwhina ana i ngā kaimahi pāmu (RT 2013:4). / I stand to support this Bill, because in my opinion the purpose of this Bill is appropriate - namely assisting farm workers.
Synonyms: hoaketanga, whāinga, kaupapa, take, koronga, tikanga, tātai
