whakanoho
1. (verb) (whakanōhia,-a,-ia) to place, set, fix in place, establish, cause to sit, dwell, live, settle.
Kua māharahara noa iho te Kāwanatanga ki hea rā taki whakanoho ai (HM 1/1991:6). / The Government has become quite concerned as to where to house them.
See also whakanōhia
Synonyms: matawā, nonoho, noho, whakamohiki, whakarākei, totoka, rehurehu, tetepe, pō, ahuahu, kōpā, whakatatū, whakaea, whakatau, whakamāhaki, whakataiwhenua, tatū, tau, pūwhenua, nohonoho, taiwhanga, kopou, wāhi, maka, makamaka, moka, panga, whakatū, wāhanga, whakanohonoho, whakatakoto, whiu, whiuwhiu
2. (modifier) placing, setting, fixing in place, establishing.
Heoi, nā te mātotoru haere o te noho mai a te Pākehā i hari ake ētahi tikanga whakanoho taupetupetu i te iwi (TTR 1990:148). / But the expansion of Pākehā settlement brought some tensions with the people.
Synonyms: whakanohonoho, tautanga, rerenga, takiwā
3. (noun) placement, establishment, siting, settlement.
Kāore i pai ki te iwi Pākehā o reira, arā, ngā tāngata whāngai kararehe, te whakanoho kāinga a Te Maihāroa rātou ko tōna iwi (TTR 1990:229). / The local Pākehā, that is the farmers raising stock, did not like the Te Maihāroa and his people establishing a home there.
Synonyms: whakatakotoranga, whakanohonoho, whakatutukitanga, noninga kumu, kāenga, whakatatū, whakatau, kāinga, whakaritenga
