rangahau
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to seek, search out, pursue, research, investigate.
Ko ēnei mea nui katoa kei roto i te Paipera Tapu; mā te tangata e kimi, e rangahau, ka āta kitea ai (TKO 6/1915:4). / All these important things are in the Bible; it is for one to search and seek them out whereby they will be discovered.
Synonyms: whakataki, hurahura, pōrangi, raparapa, haha, hīnana, kimikimi, rapu, hāhau, puretumu, kimi, whakarapu, rapa, whaiwhai, aruaru, aru, whai, tauaru, rei
2. (noun) research, survey.
Pērā anō tana mahi whakakotahi mai i ngā rangahau tūturu me ētehi mahi he moemoeā kē nei, te āhua o ngā kōrero mō Māhinārangi me te wahine toikupu rā, me Puhiwahine (TTR 1998:72). / Similar blending of factual research and what must be regarded as fancy is evident in the accounts about Māhinārangi and on the poetess Puhiwahine.
