KUPU HOU 3 Flashcards
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Hungawai
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parents in-law
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Hunaonga
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son-in-law, daughter-in-law.
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taokete
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brother in law (of a male)
sister in law (of a female)
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tōia
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Drag
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pāwhiri
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- (verb) (-a,-ngia) to click, click on (computer).
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kahurangi
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matriarch
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whakahau
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commanding
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kuku o te manawa
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heartthrob, darling, beloved.
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piritahi
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(verb) to be together.
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ringa rehe
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skilled, skillful, accomplished, practiced, competent, proficient
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māhaki,
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(verb) to be inoffensive, mild, meek, calm, quiet, placid, humble, tolerant.
(noun) humility, humbleness, modesty, unassuming nature, meekness, tolerance
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whakapātaritari
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(verb) (-a,-tia) to challenge, provoke, incite.
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koromikomiko
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curly
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pākiki
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(verb) (-tia) to question frequently, inquire, probe.
(modifier) inquisitive, inquiring, curious, questioning, analytical, probing
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mātanga
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experienced person
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āinga
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- (noun) driving force, thing driven
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kōmiri
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- (verb) (-tia) to rub with the hand or fingers, massage
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puāwai
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- (verb) (-tia) to bloom, come to fruition, open out (of a flower).
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whakawhetai
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- (verb) (-tia) to give thanks, be grateful
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tāria
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- (verb) to be waited for - the passive form of tatari.
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whakahirahira
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- (verb) to extol, carry out with pomp.
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hōreke
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- (verb) (-a,-hia) to throw (a spear).
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torotika
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- (verb) to be straight, stiff, vertical, upright.
- (modifier) straight, direct, stiff, vertical, upright, perpendicular.
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kōratarata
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- (verb) to be clear, glistening, shiny, glossy.
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rehu
1. (verb) (-a) to pass out of sight, disappear, render unconscious
2. (noun) haze, mist, spray, fine dust
3. (noun) premonition, extra-sensory perception, foreboding.
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kōrekoreko
1. (verb) to sparkle, dazzle.
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ahurei
1. (verb) to be chief, prominent, unique
2. (modifier) chief, prominent, unique, distinguished, noted, eminent, important, outstanding, distinguished, foremost
3. (noun) prominence, splendour, uniqueness, importance
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kohara
1. (verb) (-ina,-tia) to split open.
2. (verb) (-ina,-kia,-tia) to gleam, shine.
3. (verb) (-tia) to enthuse, be passionate about, enraptured, enthusiastic, infatuated, smitten.
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tiriwhana
1. (verb) to be curved, arched
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puea
1. (verb) to rise up, rise to the surface
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pōuriuri
1. (verb) to be darkish, gloomy, sombre in colour
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ihiihi
1. (verb) to shudder with fear, be terrified
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taunga
1. (verb) (-tia) to become familiar with, used to, accustomed
2. (noun) anchorage, resting place, landing, fishing ground
3. (noun) co-ordinate, position.
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rurerure
1. (verb) (-a) to shake, toss about.
2. (verb) (-a) to brandish, wield, wave about.
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tō
1. (verb) to set (of the sun and heavenly bodies).
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hīrere
1. (verb) to gush forth, spurt.
2. (verb) to rush, dash, hurry
3. (noun) waterfall, torrent, shower (bathroom).
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korongatā
1. (verb) to be reluctant, unwilling
2. (noun) reluctance, unwillingness.
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hinamoki
1. (noun) sea horse
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pāpaku
1. (verb) to be shallow, low.
2. (modifier) shallow, low.
3. (modifier) short (in stature or height)
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kōtamutamu
1. (verb) to smack the lips, open and close the lips repeatedly, nibble.
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ripo
1. (verb) to be swirling around.
2. (noun) whirlpool, eddy, curl, deep pool.
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ākene pea
1. perhaps, maybe, probably.
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tūrangahakoa
1. (verb) to be joyful, happy, cheerful, elated, glad, delighted.
2. (modifier) joyful, happy, cheerful, elated, glad, delighted.
3. (noun) joy, cheerfulness, delight, happiness.
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kārewa
1. (stative) be buoyed, floating, buoyant.
2. (noun) buoy, float (for a net), lifebelt, lifebuoy.
3. (noun) surface (of water).
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tua
1. (location) the further side (of a solid body), beyond, other side - a location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence.
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taratara
1. (verb) to be prickly, spiky, rough, coarse.
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uriuri
1. (modifier) dark in
2. (modifier) intensely dark - usually follows pō. Sometimes written as one word, i.e. pōuriuri.
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kōritorito
1. (stative) be unkempt, uncombed, messy, dishevelled, untidy - when talking of hair.
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puehu
1. (verb) (-tia) to get dusty, turbid, hazy
2. (noun) dust.
3. (noun) silt.
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matatāhuna
1. (noun) sandbank, shoal
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tātarakihi
1. (noun) cicada
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hiako
1. (noun) skin, hide, bark, rind, peel
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kekē
keke
kēkē
1. (verb) to creak
1. (loan) (noun) cake.
1. (noun) armpit.
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puare
1. (stative) be open, exposed, hollow.
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huritao
1. (verb) (-na,-ngia) to consider, reflect upon, mull over, ponder, contemplate, deliberate, cogitate.
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kukume
1. (verb) (kūmea) to drag, haul, pull. Usually kūmea in the passive form.
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huti
1. (verb) (hūtia) to pull out, pull up, haul up - the u becomes a long vowel in the passive form, i.e. hūtia.
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unu
1. (verb) (-hia) pull out, withdraw, draw out, extract.
2. (verb) (-hia) to pull off, put off, take off (clothes, etc.).
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tauwhena
1. (verb) to be undersized, of small stature, dwarfish.
2. (modifier) undersized, of small stature, dwarfish, stunted.
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purutiti
1. (verb) to be closed up, clogged (of a passageway, etc.), blocked up.
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whenguwhengu
2. (noun) moko marks on the upper lip.
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rewharewha
1. (noun) influenza - a highly contagious virus infectio
2. Flu
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ui
1. (verb) (-a) to ask, enquire, query, disengage, unravel, disentangle.
2. (noun) question, query.
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rangapū
1. (noun) company, group.
2. (noun) partnership.
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kaiponu
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to keep to oneself, withhold (especially of things which should be shared, including knowledge), refuse to let go
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mahea
1. (verb) to be cleared away, free from obstruction, clear.
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tuakiri
1. (noun) person, personality, identity.
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karapoti
1. (verb) (-a) to surround, hedge in, encircle.
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whai hua
1. (verb) to have value.
2. (stative) be useful, beneficial, worthwhile.
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tākiri
1. (verb) (-tia) to pull out, pull up, untie, loosen, unfurl.
2. (verb) (-tia) to spread out (food)
3. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to strike, deeply affect the emotions, move.
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ura
1. (verb) to be red, brown, glowing.
2. (noun) glow.
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hura
1. (verb) (-hia,-ina) to remove (a covering), show (cards), uncover, expose, unveil
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rerenga
1. (noun) voyage, journey, sailing, flight, trip
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whakairi
1. (verb) (-a,-hia) to hang up, suspend, elevate.
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rongomau
1. (noun) peace, peace settlement.
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piringa
1. (noun) shelter, hiding place, haven, refuge.
2. (noun) connection, link, association, relationship.
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nohoanga
1. (noun) seat, chair, seating, dwelling place, abode, encampment.
2. (noun) session, sitting, hearing.
3. (noun) position of responsibility, position.
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wetewete
1. (verb) (-a,-kia,-kina) to untie, unravel, release, set free.
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tāmitanga
1. (noun) suppression, oppression, repression, subjugation, colonisation
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unu
1. (verb) (-hia) pull out, withdraw, draw out, extract.
2. (verb) (-hia) to pull off, put off, take off (clothes, etc.).
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kaupēhi
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to suppress, oppress, keep down, repress.
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herenga
1. (noun) tie, obligation, condition, bond, commitment, requirement.
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wātea
1. (verb) to be free, unoccupied, open, vacant, blank, available, clear, unencumbered.
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kūare
1. (verb) to be ignorant, stupid, unaware, unenlightened, naive, uninformed, illiterate, uneducated, unknowing, low in the social scale, held in no esteem.
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whetē
1. (verb) to stare wildly, stare intently.
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taringa kōhatu
1. (modifier) deaf, stubborn.
2. (noun) deaf person, deaf ears, stubborn person.
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uira
1. (verb) to flash, gleam.
2. (noun) lightning, electricity.
3. (noun) glow.
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whaitiri
1. (noun) thunder.
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take
1. (verb) (-a) to originate, derive.
2. (noun) reason, purpose, cause, origin, root, stump, source, beginning.
3. (noun) topic, subject, matter, issue, concern.
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mātorotoro
1. (verb) (-tia) to woo, pay attention to.
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pārekareka
1. (verb) to be pleasant, pleased, enjoyable, fun.
2. (modifier) entertaining, enjoyable, engaging, compelling.
3. (noun) enjoyment, pleasure, delight.
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hangareka
1. (verb) (-tia) to jest, make fun, joke about, kid, deceive
2. (modifier) jesting, funny, joking about, kidding, satirical, mocking.
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kaokao
1. (noun) side of the body, flank.
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maene
1. (stative) be smooth, soft to the touch.
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warowaro
1. (verb) to make an indistinct sound.
2. (noun) indistinct sound (of voices), murmur.
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tāheke
1. (verb) (-a) to drip, flow down (of liquids).
2. (noun) waterfall, rapid.
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minamina
1. (verb) (-hia,-ia,-tia) to desire, feel an inclination for, wish.
2. (noun) desire, want, wish, aspiration, longing, appetite
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pūremu
1. (verb) (-tia) to commit adultery, be unfaithful.
2. (noun) adultery, infidelity, unfaithfulness, illicit sex, unchastity, extramarital relations.
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riporipo
1. (verb) (-a) to whirl, eddy, curl, swirl around.
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mamau
1. (verb) (-ria,-tia) to grasp, grab, wrestle.
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ehuehu
1. (verb) (-ngia) to sprinkle, spray.
2. (modifier) turbid, murky, muddy
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waitai
1. (noun) sea water.
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kohu
1. (noun) fog, mist, haze, smog.
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kōpū
1. (noun) belly, abdomen.
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hihi
1. (noun) ray of sun.
2. (noun) feeler (of crayfish), antenna, sucker, thin shoot, tendril (of plants), tentacle (of Portuguese man-of-war), sliver, baleen - any long slender appendage.
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nguha
1. (verb) to fight fiercely, battle.
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whakatūpou
1. (verb) (-tia) to make the head bow
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matata
1. (verb) to be split, open, gape.
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tiketike
1. (verb) to be high, lofty, important, enhanced.
2. (modifier) high, lofty, important.
3. (noun) height, altitude.
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whakamarumaru
1. (verb) (-hia,-ngia,-tia) to shade, shelter, protect.
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parahanga
1. (noun) rubbish, litter, scraps, rubbish dump, pollution.
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tahatū
1. (noun) horizon - usually in the phrase te tahatū o te rangi.
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whakahā
1. (verb) (-kia,-tia) to breathe, respire, exhale.
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tāwara
1. (noun) flavour, taste, tenor, essence.
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takatū
1. (verb) to prepare, get ready (used only of people getting ready), make ready
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pā tuna
1. (noun) eel weir, weir for catching eels
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poroporo
1. (verb) (-a) to lop off, cut off, cut into lengths
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nanakia
1. (verb) to be better than expected, not too bad, pretty good
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ngangau
1. (verb) (-tia) to chew, masticate.
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wheua
1. (noun) bone.
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kono
1. (noun) small square basket for cooked food.
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hamumu
1. (verb) to speak, say, utter - used in classical Māori as though the body part is doing the action, rather than the person.
2. (verb) (-tia) to mutter, hum, mumble.
3. (noun) mumble, mutter, mumbling, muttering.
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whakaahua
1. (verb) (-tia) to acquire form, transform.
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taitama
(noun) young man, youth.
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tītaha
1. (verb) (-tia) to lean to one side, slant, be on one side, pass on one side, go in an oblique direction, tilt, list.
2. (verb) to decline (of the sun, stars, etc.).
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kōpaki
1. (verb) (-a,-na,-tia) to envelop, wrap, fold, enfold, encapsulate, make a cover.
2. (noun) envelope, folder, husk, cover.
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putanga
1. (noun) emergence, appearance, entrance, opening, escape.
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haupū
1. (verb) (-ria,-tia) to place in a heap, gather into a heap.
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tahua
1. (noun) space in front of the meeting house, courtyard.
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pona
1. (verb) (-ia) to knot, tie in a knot, tie up.
2. (noun) knot.
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kōrari
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to pluck off, pull off, tear off (twigs, etc.).
Kōraria mai te peka o te rākau nei (W 1971:140). / Pull off the branches of this tree.
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pāraharaha
1. (verb) to be flat, broad.
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papatairite
1. (verb) to be level, even surface.
2. (modifier) level, even, flat.
3. (noun) flat land, plain.
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whakamōtoro
to woo, pay attention to
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whiri
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-ngia) to twist, plait (a rope, etc.), weave, spin.
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weheruatanga
1. (noun) separation, division, half-time
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uhu
1. (verb) to be benumbed, numbed.
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2. (noun) cramp, stiffness.
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ngaoko
(verb) to move slightly, stir, budge.
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korikori
1. (verb) to move, get going.
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muramura
1. (verb) to be glowing, blushing, flashing.
I te wā i hinga ia i Ōpōtiki i te 28 o Āperira o te tau 1993, muramura ana te hōrapa ake o te uira i Te Moana-a-Toi-te-huatahi (TTR 2000:56). / At the time of his death at Ōpōtiki on 28 April 1993, lightning flashed across the Bay of Plenty.
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haeata
1. (noun) dawn.
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pūrero
1. (verb) to project, emerge, be prominent (from water, etc.).
I tana kitenga atu ka pūrero ake a Ahitereiria i te pae moana, ka tū ia, ka umere (TTT 1/8/1930:2115). / When he saw Australia projecting up from the sea horizon, he stood up and shouted.
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hana
1. (verb) to shine, glow, give out heat, radiate.
2. (noun) flame, glow, warmth, heat, radiance.
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rangitoto
1. (noun) lava, scoria
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hetiheti
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to hoe.
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hauhake
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-na,-tia) to harvest, take up a root crop, dig up (a root crop)
2. (modifier) harvesting, harvest.
3. (noun) harvest.
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panga
1. (verb) (-a,-ia,-ina) to throw, toss, lay, place.
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otaota
1. (noun) vegetation, weeds, grass, herbs
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māringanui
1. (interjection) fortunately, happily, luckily - normally used at the start of the statement.
Māringanui i whakatūria tō tātou whare i mua o te piki o te utu. / Fortunately our building was erected before the price rose.
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haumako
1. (verb) to be rich, fertile.
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āwhā
1. (noun) gale, storm, heavy rain, torrential rain.
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taenga
1. (noun) arrival.
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karo
1. (verb) (-a,-hia) to parry, avoid, dodge, duck, evade, elude, save.
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tō
1. (verb) (-ia) to drag, haul, pull, open or shut (a sliding door or window).
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kāheru
1. (noun) shovel, spade - traditionally a wooden spade-like implement.
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hetiheti
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to hoe.
2. (noun) hoe.
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huripara
1. (loan) (noun) wheelbarrow.
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paruhi
1. (verb) to be beautiful, fine, calm (of weather).
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tapa
1. (verb) (-a,-ia,-ina,-ngia) to call, name.
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kimonga kanohi
1. in the blink of an eye, very quickly.
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pononga
1. (noun) servant, slave, captive.
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totohe
1. (verb) (tohea) to argue, quarrel, squabble, contend, contest
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mauria mai
to take, bring, carry
mauria mai te tūru o tō kuia
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kangakanga
1. (verb) (-ia) to curse, swear frequently, abuse.
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whakatuwheratanga
1. (noun) opening, opening ceremony.
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pūhaehae
1. (stative) be envious, jealous.
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whakamātau
1. (verb) (-hia,-ria,-tia) to attempt, try, experiment, cause to know, teach, tempt, try out, trial.
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kōingo
1. (verb) (-tia) to yearn, fret, grieve, desire.
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whakaritorito
1. (modifier) throwing up shoots, sprouting.
E pai ana. Mea ake ka whakaritorito ngā kāwai o Tainui waka, o Takitimu waka.
It is good. Soon the various genealogical vines of Tainui and Tākitimu will have new offshoots.
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ongaonga
1. (verb) to be appalled, disgusted, horrified, displeased, jarring
2. (noun) repulsion, distaste, abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, revulsion, repugnance.
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toro
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-na) to visit, go to see, pay a visit, call on, survey, reconnoitre, probe, explore.
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māunu
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to bait.
2. (noun) bait.
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whakapoapoa
1. (verb) to entice, induce, attract, charm, lure, tempt.
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rērere
1. (verb) to fly about from place to place.
2. (verb) to sail from place to place.
3. (verb) to flee, escape, run in all directions.
4. (verb) to fly in all directions.
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whakateuru
1. (modifier) towards the west, westwards.
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whakaterāwhiti
1. (modifier) eastward, eastwards, easterly.
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kāhui
1. (noun) swarm, flock, cluster, herd, company.
Ka oma mai te tama a Manaia ki te kāhui kaimahi
One of the children of Manaia ran to the (company/cluster) workers
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tārei
1. (verb) (-a) to fashion, shape.
Ka tāreia kia iti, kia kotahi inihi me te koata pea te mātotoru o waenganui
It's fashioned so that it's small, about one and a quarter inches thick in the middle
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kōhuru
1. (verb) (-tia) to act treacherously, ill-treat, murder, assassinate - the infliction of serious injury without just cause. Has connotations of treachery and stealth.
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tuki
1. (verb) (-a) to attack, knock down, tackle, butt, gore.
2. (verb) (-a) to ram, bump, crash into
3. (verb) (-a) to beat, pound.
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tanu
1. (verb) (-mia) to bury, plant.
2. (verb) to lie buried, buried.
3. (modifier) burial, interment, committal.
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nuka
1. (verb) (-ia) to deceive, dupe, trick, mislead.
2. (modifier) deceitful, devious, conniving, tricky.
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whānako
1. (noun) thief, cheat, robber, crook, theft, thieving, robbery, dispossession
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hōkai
1. (verb) to be extended, embracing a wide angle, far apart, at a distance.
2. (noun) breadth, diagonal, brace, stay.
3. (noun) spasmodic movement (of the limbs).
4. (noun) quill feathers.
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ruarua
1. (verb) to be of two minds, in doubt.
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māngaro
1. (modifier) tasty, mealy, floury.
2. (noun) sweetness, flavour.
3. (noun) starch.
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riu
1. (noun) bilge (or hull) of a canoe, hold (of a ship).
2. (noun) valley, basin, dale.
Synonyms: kāraraha, kāraha, pāta, peihana
3. (noun) belly, chest, abdomen, stomach.
Synonyms: tia, kōpū, puku, takapū
4. (noun) core (of the body).
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umere
1. (verb) (-tia) to shout, applaud, cheer, make raucous applause.
2. (verb) to sing, chant - to keep time in any united effort.
3. (noun) shout, applause, raucous applause.
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ētita
1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to edit.
2. (loan) (verb) to be an editor.
3. (loan) (noun) editor.
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parehe
1. (noun) pizza.
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wahie
1. (noun) firewood.
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taiwhanga
1. (verb) (-a,-ia) to lurk, wait for.
2. (noun) place, locality, waiting room, space.
eg taiwhanga moe (sleeping place)
taiwhanga kai (eating place)
taiwhanga putaiao (science laboratory/area)
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ētita
1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to edit.
2. (loan) (verb) to be an editor.
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pōngerengere
1. (verb) to be stifling, oppressive, overwhelming, dark.
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uha
1. (noun) female (of birds and animals), woman, femaleness, femininity.
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Kurawaka
1. (location) name of the place in the creation narratives where the first woman was created.
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koke
1. (verb) to move forward, move on a course.
Ko tēnei take i muri nei tukua ki raro, ko Tama-nui-te-rā tēnei e koke nei (JPS 1927:257). / Let this matter now be dropped, for the sun now pursues its course.
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tahuri
1. (verb) (-tia) to turn, accept.
Kātahi ka hoatu ngā moni ki ngā Māori, ki te kore e tahuritia aua moni e rātou kātahi ka mahia i raro i ngā tikanga o te Ture mō ngā Rerewē (TW 24/11/1874:44). / Then the money was offered to the Māori, and if that price was not accepted by them, then the matter was dealt with under the procedures of the Railways Act.
Synonyms: whakaae
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aroaro
1. (noun) face, front, before, in the presence of.
Ahakoa kāore i kopaina te auhi, te poreirewa ki te kupu i mua tonu i tō aroaro, mā te aha rā i ēnei kupu iti kua tuhia nei - engari anō tēnei i te kore rawa atu nei! (HM 4/2009:4) / Although the grief and yearning did not disappear with words spoken in your presence, or with these few words that have been written here - this is better than nothing!
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areare
1. (verb) to be open, clear of obstruction, receptive.
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mingi
1. (verb) be curly, twisted (especially of the grain of timber, hair, etc.).
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waihanga
1. (verb) (-tia) to make, build, construct, erect, create, develop, generate.
1. (adjective) man-made.
2. (adjective) synthetic.
3. (adjective) artificial.
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matū
1. (noun) fat, gist (of a matter), richness, sense, point, spirit, quintessence.
2. (noun) material, matter (science), substance, chemical.
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piki kōtuku
1. (noun) darling, treasure, symbol of prestige and uniqueness.
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minaka
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to desire, want, need
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hiamo
1. (verb) to be thrilled, excited, exciting.
2. (verb) to be elevated, exalted, impressed.
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whakawhiu
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to oppress, afflict, punish.
2. (modifier) threatening, intimidating, bullying.
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takahi
1. (verb) (-a) to trample, tramp, stamp, tread, abuse, disregard.
2. (verb) (-a) to disobey, defy, contravene, breach, violate, ravish (a woman).
3. (verb) (-a) to travel.
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pōkare
1. (verb) to be agitated (as a liquid), stirred up.
Nā reira ēnei kupu torutoru me kore e pōkare ake te wai i tāku hoe (TTT 1/10/1927:669). / Hence these few words to see whether the water will be agitated by my paddle.
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ana
1. (noun) cave.
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pakimaero
1. (noun) fiction, novel.
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pūahi
1. (noun) cigarette lighter.
Synonyms: whakakā
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oriori
1. (verb) (-tia) to chant a lullaby, lull to sleep.
2. (noun) lullaby - song composed on the birth of a chiefly child about his/her ancestry and tribal history.
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kauhau
1. (verb) (-tia) to lecture, preach.
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kapakapa
1. (verb) to quiver, flutter, throb, pulsate, beat.
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matawai
1. (noun) inspector.
1. (verb) (-tia) to look closely, scrutinize, inspect, scan.
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kupu whakarite
1. (noun) metaphor, simile, figurative language, figure of speech, cryptic saying.
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whakaaraara
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to alert, awaken.
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pōkai
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to roll up, fold, assemble, wind into a ball, coil, wind around, wrap, wrap up.
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whakaaroaro
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to ponder, consider carefully, think about, contemplate, deliberate, give thought to, mull over, reflect on.
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taiāwhio
1. (verb) (-tia) to go around, encircle.
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tāngutungutu
1. (verb) to be strong, hard.
E toru ngā reo o reira, me kī, e āhua puta mai i te mate ki te ora, ā, kua pakari haere, kua tāngutungutu haere (HM 1/1991:5). / There are three languages of that place, and it can be said that they have revived and are becoming stronger.
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pūkai
1. (verb) (-a,-ria,-tia) to lie, lie in a heap, heap up
Tae rawa atu te ope a Taranaki kua kore he tāngata, kua wera hoki te pā i te ahi. Ko ngā tūpāpaku e pūkai ana ko Te Waitere, ko tētahi āpiha Pākehā me tana wahine me ngā tamariki tokotoru, me ētahi atu Pākehā tokorua (TP 5/1904:8). / When Taranaki's party finally arrived the pā had been burnt. The bodies that were lying in a heap were Te Waitere, a Pākehā officer and his wife and three children with another two Pākehā.
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matakirikiri
1. (noun) gravel.
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pōkaikaha
1. (verb) to be confused, at a loss, in doubt, perplexed, mystified, baffled, flustered, bewildered, stressed out, flummoxed, bamboozled.
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mūrau
1. (noun) fame, awe, dread, byword, a person cited as a notable example - often used in the phrase te mūrau a te tini, te wenerau a te mano the dread of the multitude, the envy of thousands.
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wherawhera
1. (verb) (-hia,-ngia) to open out, spread out, fan out.
2. (noun) opening.
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kounga
1. (noun) quality, excellence, standard, aesthetically pleasing.
Synonyms: rawe, pai
E whai ana kia piki ake te kounga o te reo Māori e kōrerotia ana, e tuhia ana, kia reo rangatira tonu ai (PK 2008:343). / Seeking that the quality of the Māori language being spoken and written improves so that it continues to be an esteemed language.
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whakaemi
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to gather together, assemble, accumulate, collate.
Synonyms: whakapūranga
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pupuke
1. (verb) (pukea) to well up, rise (e.g. water, etc.), increase in volume.
2. (verb) well up (of emotions).
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hihiri
1. (verb) (-tia) to eagerly desire, long for, spring up, rise up (of thoughts).
2. (verb) to be laborious, brisk, assiduous, diligent, persistent, determined.
3. (verb) to be dynamic, energetic, spirited.
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tānga manawa
1. (noun) respite.
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korokē
1. (modifier) extraordinary, strange, unorthodox, eccentric, perverse.
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porehu
1. (verb) to be misty, dimmed, blurred, hazy, fuzzy, dazzled.
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heahea
1. (verb) to be foolish, silly, idiotic, stupid, crazy, scatty, irrational.
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pakihi
1. (modifier) business, trading, commercial.
2. (noun) business, enterprise, venture.
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ruarangi
1. (modifier) large, big.
2. (modifier) robust, stout.
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whenguwhengu
1. (noun) moustache.
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urukehu
1. (verb) to be light-haired, blond, fair-haired, red-haired, ginger-haired, sandy-haired, auburn.
2. (adjective) be light-haired, blond, fair-haired, red-haired, ginger-haired, sandy-haired, auburn.
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huarua
1. (verb) to double.
I waenganui i te tau 1991 me te tau 2001, ka huarua te tipu o te taupori Āhia ki Aotearoa (Te Ara 2015). / Between 1991 and 2001, the number of the Asians in New Zealand doubled.
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tūtei
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to keep watch, spy, scout out, keep under surveillance, watch.
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kiritata
1. (noun) neighbour.
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kāri
1. (loan) (noun) garden, cultivation, vineyard.
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muna
1. (verb) (-ia) to talk privately.
2. (stative) be confidential, anonymous, secretly.
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tūhura
1. (verb) (-hia,-ina,-tia) to discover, disclose, bring to light, unearth, open up, explore, investigate.
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winiwini
1. (verb) to shake, shudder, tremble (in fear).
2. (modifier) shaking, shuddering, trembling (in fear).
3. (noun) fear, dread, terror.
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kāpuapua
1. (modifier) cloudy.
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tāmaru
1. (verb) (-tia) to shade, cloud, overshadow.
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tamumu
1. (verb) (-tia) to hum, murmur, buzz.
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waimeha
1. (verb) (-tia) to dilute.
2. (verb) to be weak, dull (of colour), insipid.
