tūārangi
1. (modifier) from a distance, from afar.
Hei te 25 o ngā rā o Pēpuere ka tīmata te hui ā-tau a ngā tākuta o Nui Tīreni me ētahi takuta manuhiri tūārangi o ērā atu wāhi o te ao ki Rotorua (TTT 1/1/1928:714). / On 25 February the annual conference of New Zealand and international doctors begins at Rotorua.
3. (noun) distance.
4. (noun) visitors from afar.
Te tikanga ko Mātaatua katoa ka whakaeke i te rā tuatahi, i te Paraire. Koirā te ao o mua, kia pō takoto rawa rātau; kia kotahi katoa ai rātau; kia mātotoru ai te tū mai i te ata hei pōwhiri ki ngā manuhiri tawhiti, ngā tūārangi (EM 2002:94). / The practice is that all of Mātaatua should come on in the first day, the Friday. That was the old world, that they stay the night so that they are all united, and so that there is a large crowd to stand in the morning to welcome the visitors from a long way away, the visitors from afar.
