ngarengare
1. (verb) (-a) to order, send, urge.
Kīhai i taro kua tūtaki taua koroheke ki a Augustin, ā ngarengare ana i a ia kia kōrerotia ngā Karaipiture (TH 1/8/1860:4). / Not long after that the elderly man met Augustin and he urged him to read the Scriptures.
See also tama ngarengare
Synonyms: whakahauhau, whakahau, whakaraupapa, raupapa, tare, tunga, tuku, ōta, unga, tono, ngare
2. (modifier) overbearing, domineering, authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrrantical.
He wahine ngarengare tōna whaea - he rite tonu tana tohutohu mai i a māua kia pēnei, kia pēnā. / Her mother is domineering - she continually orders us to do things this way or that.
Synonyms: tuanui, hākiki, whakatuanui
3. (noun) small amount, a little, fragment, bit, smidgen.
He pai ake te ngarengare i te kore rawa atu (HM 4/2008:5). / A little is better than nothing.
