taharua
1. (verb) to be related to two tribes.
Ko te tino hapū o Wī i te taha ki tōna matua ko Ngāti Mihi, ā, i te taha ki te whaea o tōna matua, ki te wahine rangatira nei ki a Rīpeka, ka taharua ia ki a Ngāi Tamaterangi me Te Aitanga-a-Hinemanuhiri (TTR 2000:82). / Wi’s main hapu through his father was Ngāti Mihi, and through Rīpeka, his high-ranking paternal grandmother, he belonged to Ngāi Tamaterangi and Te Aitanga-a-Hinemanuhiri.
2. (noun) bisexual.
Ara ake ana te heitara o te motu i te tau 1975 i tana kī ake i tētahi uiuinga pouaka whakaata he tāne moe tāne tētahi (kāore i whakaingoatia) mema Pāremata, ko ētahi anō he taharua. (Townsend, 2018) / She caused a national scandal in 1975 when she claimed in a television interview that one (unnamed) member of Parliament was homosexual and others were bisexual.
3. (adjective) be of two aspects, two-sided.
4. (noun) biculturalism.
Ngāwari noa iho ki a Ruawahine te haere i waenga i ngā iwi e rua, Pākehā, Māori. Pērā āno ana tamariki. Haere ana ngā reo e rua, haere ana ngā taha e rua. Engari te pāpā. Kāore i rata ki te taharua o ā rāua tamariki (TTR 1990:1). / Ruawahine moved easily in both Māori and Pākehā communities. Her children were the same. They were fluent in both languages and cultures. But the father was opposed the biculturalim of their children.
5. (noun) people related to two different tribes.
He taharua a Ngāti Te Koherā ki a Ngāti Raukawa, ki a Ngāti Tūwharetoa (TTR 1990:348). / Ngāti Te Koherā are related to both Ngāti Raukawa, ki a Ngāti Tūwharetoa.
