tahanga
1. (modifier) naked, bereft, desolate, having nothing.
I te ata ka kitea kua kōhuru te kōtiro i a ia. E takoto tahanga ana i te hope ki te kakī - he mea pupuhi nāna tōna uma ki te pū (KO 12/5/1918:10). / In the morning is was discovered that the girl had murdered him. He lay naked from the waist to the neck - she had shot him in the chest with the gun.
2. (modifier) alone.
I a ia e tū tahanga ana ko ia anake, i te pupuhi tonu a ia i tana pū poto (TTR 1990:393). / While he was standing alone, he fired his carbine.
3. (modifier) empty.
Kāore rawa tētahi mea tōtika i mahue i a Rūhia ki roto i aua pā; ko ngā pā anake i mahue iho i a rātou kia tū tahanga ana (TKO 9/1915:4). / Nothing useful was left behind by the Russians in those forts; all they left behind were just the forts standing empty.
4. (modifier) moderately, a little.
Kaua e waiho te wai kia koropupū, kia werawera tahanga (W 1971:357). / Don't let the water boil, it should be lukewarm.
