puha
1. (verb) (-ina) to blow, spout, spit out, belch, erupt.
Mutu ana te puha o taua rangitoto, ka puha anō ko tētahi i mamao noa atu, kotahi rau māero te mataratanga o tētahi o tētahi o aua puha nei (TW 21/8/1875:160). / When this volcano ceased erupting, another one erupted some distance away. Those eruptions were a hundred miles from each other.
2. (verb) to exhale, make a faint emission of breath, gasp.
Me ngongo e te tangata mā tōna ihu, ā, ka puha mai mā tōna waha (TTT 1/9/1927:650). / A person should inhale via her nose and exhale via her mouth.
3. (noun) gills (of fish).
4. (noun) eruption.
Kotahi rau māero te mataratanga o tētahi o tētahi o aua puha nei (TW 21/8/1875:160). / Those eruptions were a hundred miles from each other.
