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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.

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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.

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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’.

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Synonyms: matū, tairongo, ārohirohi


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.

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Synonyms: hoaketanga, whāinga, kaupapa, take, koronga, tikanga, tātai

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