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hāhā

1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) catch the breath, breathe with difficulty, gasp.

Ka hāhā te manawa i te pāria anō o tana mate huangō (PK 2008:63). / She had difficulty breathing with the onset again of her asthma.

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2. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to warn off (by shouting).

Ka hāhāngia mai e te katoa, "Kaua koe e haere atu ki reira, ka tapu koe i te nohoanga o Tangotango." (NM 1928:43) / He was warned off by everybody, "Don't go there or you will become tapu from the place where Tangotango sits."

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3. (stative) be savoury, luscious, tasty, appetizing, delicious, scrumptious.

Te hāhā mārika o ngā kai (HM 4/1994:3). / How delicious the food was.

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Synonyms: wainene, hūnene, mōkarakara, kakato


4. (stative) be leaning, inclined, tilted, slanting, sloping.

Kia hāhā ngā tara o te whare (W 1971:29). / The walls of the house should be slanting.

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Synonyms: konana, tāwharara


5. (modifier) desolate, deserted, bleak, isolated.

He harapaki hāhā te wāhi i rohea mō taua urupā nei (TTR 1990:316). / The place marked off for that cemetery was a bleak hillside.

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