2. (noun) leave taking, farewell.
Ka oti tana poroaki, ka whiua e ia tana tama ki roto i Te Puna o te Ao Mārama. Ka huri te tamaiti rā hei taniwha (Te Ara 2012). / With his farewell completed he dispatched his son into the spring called The Spring in the World of Light. That child turned into a taniwha.