tūpāpaku
1. (noun) corpse, deceased, cadaver, deceased person's body.
Ko Te Tapuwae tonu te urupā rongonui o roto o Rūātoki. Tae rawa mai ki te tau 1955, kua kōpāpā rawa hai tanu tūpāpaku (TTR 1990:238). / Te Tapuwae remains the important burial place in Rūātoki. By 1955 it had become too crowded for further burials.
2. (noun) sick person, seriously ill person, terminally ill person, invalid, sufferer - not a common usage in modern Māori.
Ki te pāngia te tangata e te mate, ka tīkina te tākuta, ka tae mai, ka titiro i te mate, ka homai he rongoā, whakatūtū rawa he ture, kia kaua te tūpāpaku e kai i ngā kai kua tuhia ake nei (TPH 27/2/1905:2). / If a person is struck down by an illness, the doctor is fetched and when he arrives he will look at the problem and prescribe some medicine, pointing out some rules that the sick person should not eat the foods that he has listed.
3. (noun) intended victim to be killed.
Kātahi ka tahuri ki te tupe i te tūpāpaku; nā, kua ngoikore te tūpāpaku, heoti anō ka mau (NM 1928:101). / Then he set about doing the tupe ritual spell on the intended victim; and the target victim became weak and so was caught.
