2. (verb) to heap, pile up, store.
Ka tohutohutia mai aua tāngata, "E tae ki te wā e whakarae ai te kūmara ki te rua, me patu a Tuakata, kei hoki mai te mauri o te kūmara ki Hawaiki nei." (TTT 1/9/1929:1074). / Those people were instructed, "When it comes the time when the kūmara are stored in the pit, Tuakata should be killed lest the mauri of the kūmara return to Hawaiki."
Synonyms: tōhī, whakaahu, whakaputu, whakatahua, whakapipi, tōhīhī
3. (verb) to stand out, be prominent.
Whakarae tonu au, he maire tū wao, mā te toki e tua (W 1971:320). / I am quite prominent, a maire tree that stands in the forest, which can be felled with an axe.
4. (modifier) prominent, stand out, important.
Ko tōna pāpā ko Te Taonui, he rangatira whakarae nō roto o Te Popoto, ā, nō te iriiringa, i tapaina a Te Taonui pakeke ki a Makoare, te ingoa o te kāwana i Poihākena, arā, a Lachlan Macquarie (TTR 1994:116). / His father was Te Taonui, a prominent chief of Te Popoto, and when he was baptised as an adult Te Taonui was named Makoare, the name of the governor of Sydney, Lachlan Macquarie.
Synonyms: matararahi, koutu, tāpua, koure, whakaea, whakahī, kōhure, hōhō, ahurei, tutū
5. (noun) heap, pile.
Te tomokanga atu o tōna tuahine ki te whata, ka kite atu ia i te whakarae o te aruhe (W 1971:320). / When his sister entered the storehouse she saw the pile of fernroot.
Synonyms: pūkainga, haupū, tōhīanga, purawhetū, kauika, whakapū, whakaputu, kōputu, pūhanga, pūkei, putunga, whakarauika, whakapipi, whārona, pūkai, taipū, whakaputunga
