rongo
1. (experience verb) (rangona,-hia,-na,-tia) to hear, feel, smell, taste, perceive - used for all the senses except sight.
Ka rongo ngā hōia i roto i te pā i te tangi o te piukara, ka pikipiki ki runga ki ngā tāepa o te pā (TPH 7/7/1905:5). / When the soldiers in the fort heard the bugle they climbed onto the palisades of the fort.
Kātahi ka kowheta te hiku, ka rongo hoki i te mamae o ngā taura kua nonoti tonu rā i waenganui o te puku (TWM 15/7/1865:3). / Then its tail thrashed about as it felt the pain of the ropes tightening around its stomach.
Me horopū ngā pire, kia kore ai koe e rongo i te kawa (PK 2008:136). / The pills should be swallowed whole so that you don't taste the bitterness.
See also rangona
Synonyms: kite
2. (noun) news, report, fame, tidings, reputation.
Hau noa ana tōna rongo mō te whakaora tūroro (TTR 1994:5). / His reputation for healing the sick spread.
Synonyms: kawepūrongo, rongorongo, pitopito kōrero, kōrero, pakū, hau, pūrongo, pūrongorongo, rīpoata, kupu whakatau, whakahirahira
3. (noun) peace (after war).
I te tau 1833, ka haere a Te Wiremu ki Matamata, kia kite i a Te Waharoa, kia houhia te rongo ki a Ngāti Maru (TPH 27/3/1905:2). / In 1833 Williams went to Matamata to see Te Waharoa and to establish peace with Ngāti Maru.
Synonyms: rangimārie, maungārongo, rongomau, waikanaetanga, whakaaio, āio, houkura, houhanga a rongo, hūmārie, aumārire, mārie, māriri, hūmārire
4. (noun) perception, awareness.
Ko te rongo ko tā te tangata whakamahi i ōna tairongo katoa hei hanga māramatanga ki tētahi mahinga toi (RTA 2014:153). / Perception is a person's use of all their senses to understand an artwork (RTA 20144:153).
Synonyms: aroā, mōhiotanga, kitenga
