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parahako

1. (verb) to reject, spurn.

Muri iho, kua parahako te Māori ki te whakapono, hoki ana anō ki ā rātou mahi (MM.TKM 15/2/1860:5). / Later the Māori rejected the faith, and returned to their old ways.

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Synonyms: ākiri, kape, whakahoe, opa, whakarere, whakareretanga


2. (modifier) rejecting, spurning, rebuffing, reluctant.

Kāore hoki au i kaha ki te whakamāori katoa i ngā kōrero o tēnei hui tamariki Pākehā, a te mea hanga i riro iti mai taua reo i ahau, i runga i te ngākau parahako (TWMNT 30/11/1875:283). / And I am not able to translate all that was said at this meeting of the Pākehā children because I have obtained only a little of that language because of my reluctant attitude.

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Synonyms: whawhati, whakatoitoi, korongatā, whakatohetohe, manawa pā, korou kore, whakatenetene, whakauaua, manauhea, whakatōngā, whakawhēuaua, horokukū, whakakumu, kōroiroi


3. (noun) rejection, anything rejected.

Te parahako o te koekoeā (NP 2001:384). / The long-tailed cuckoo's rejected one. (A term for a child rejected by its parents like the egg of a cuckoo which it lays in the nest of another species.)

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Synonyms: ākiri, whakahoe, whakatoitoi, whakarere

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