KUPU HOU 4 Flashcards
poniponi
- (loan) (modifier) small, little, tiny.
ukuuku
- (verb) to be swept away, destroyed, wiped out.
pūhutihuti
- (adjective) to be bushy, shaggy, unkempt.
tīkape
- (verb) (-a,-ngia) to move, flick out (with a stick).
whakarihariha
- (verb) to be disgusted, appalled, dismayed, reviled, aghast, revolted, shocke
taipō
- (noun) goblin, spook, ghost - unwanted supernatural visitors not of human origin that haunt the living.
tīare
- (verb) to be hollow, empty, void.
mutunga kore
- (modifier) endless, eternal, perpetual, infinite.
whakaweti
- (verb) (-a) to threaten, bully, intimidate.
korokī
- (verb) to speak, talk, tell, sing (of birds).
whakarewa
- (verb) (-ia,-ina,-ngia) to set in motion, launch, put afloat.
- (verb) (-ia,-ina,-ngia) to heat, defrost.
- (verb) (-ia,-ina,-ngia) to melt (something), dissolve (something).
hāpopo
- (noun) corpse of an enemy - usually intended to be eaten.
takutai
- (noun) sea coast, coast, shore.
koroheketanga
- (noun) old age, maturity.
poutūmārōtanga
- (noun) meridian, acme, high point, pinnacle, maturity, prime, midday.
whanatu
- (verb) to go, go away, go ahead, become.
waiaro
- (noun) attitude.
tūmahi whiti
- (noun) transitive verb - a verb able to take a direct object.
tūmahi wheako
- (noun) experience verb - a verb that names a mental state, attitude, perception or experience.
whakatewhatewha
- (noun) investigator.
- (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to investigate, examine, explore, study, enquire into, look into.
papatipu
- (modifier) traditionally owned, customary title, ancestral (of land)
- (noun) ancestral land - Māori land held under customary title and not having a European title.
hāwini
- (loan) (noun) servant, attendant, maid.
rekereke
- (noun) heel (of the foot).
- (loan) (noun) reggae.
whakataki
- (verb) (-na) to go in search of, search out.
Synonyms: rangahau
akiaki
- (verb) (-hia,-na,-ngia,-tia) to urge, encourage, incite, urge on, exhort.
taute
- (verb) (-a,-tia) to tend, look after, nurture.
- (verb) to consider, ponder, think about, contemplate, deliberate about, reflect on.
whakaruruhau
- (verb) (-tia) to protect, shield, shelter.
- (modifier) sheltered, protected, safe.
- (noun) protector, adviser, mentor.
wetereo
- (modifier) grammatical.
uhi
- (verb) (ūhia,-a,-ngia) to cover, spread over.
Uhia te korowai aroha
kawenga
- (noun) load, pack, burden, luggage.
- (noun) obligation, liability.
horo
- (verb) (-a,-tia) to slip, fall, crumble down, fall off, waste away.
mārika
- (particle) exactly, absolutely, unequivocally, positively, seriously, essentially, indubitably, for the most part, in the main, deliberately, intentionally, carefully, really, gently, quietly, silently, completely, thoroughly, well and truly, actually, in fact, quietly, peaceably, peacefully, just, merely, very - used following the word it relates to, to intensify qualities, including bad ones, or to follow āe. It can be used to show approval or disapproval.
whakapau kaha
- (verb) to give one’s all.
- (noun) effort, resolve, exploits, determination, tenacity, doggedness, perseverance.
mirumiru
- (noun) bubble.
kāhaki
- (verb) (-na,-tia) to carry off by force, hijack, remove, abduct, kidnap.
rānaki
- (verb) (-a,-na,-tia) to avenge, carry out vengeance
huhuti
- (verb) (hūtia) to pull out, hoist, haul up, pluck (feathers and hair), fish - alternative form for huti.
rapu
- (verb) (-a,-hia) to seek, look for, hunt, search for, inquire, investigate.
kiriwara
- (noun) addict.
anuanu
- (verb) to be cold, offensive, disgusted, appalled, ugly.
hāneanea
- (verb) to be pleasant, comfortable.
kōnehunehu
- (modifier) misty.
- (noun) drizzle, fine rain, mist.
ngao
- strength, energy.
- trough of the sea.
- sproot, shoot.
mātāpuna
- (noun) source.
I runga rawa o te awa o Nūhaka, e tata atu ana ki te mātāpuna, te mahi a te kōhatu e putu ana (HP 1991:15). / Right upstream of the Nūhaka river, near its source, there were many stones piled up.
whātoro
- (verb) (-a,-hia,-na,-tia) to reach out, stretch out, touch, announce.
moata
(modifier) early.
(noun) promptness, readiness.
E tika ana kia nui ngā mihi a te iwi Māori ki te Pīhopa o Waikato, ki tōna moata ki te huhi i a tātau i tēnei hōnore (TTT 1/9/1929:1071). / It’s appropriate that the Māori people should be full of praise of the Bishop of Waikato for his promptness in bestowing this honour on us.
awhero
- (verb) (-hia,-tia) to hope for, desire.
- (noun) hope, desire, ambition.
hikuwai o te tau
- (noun) summer
pūkāea
- (noun) long wooden trumpet - from 1 to 2 metres in length and made of wood and bound with vine. The mouthpiece was a finely carved human figure, and about 8 centimeters inside the cylinder was a tongue or valve of wood called tohetohe
hūkeri
- (noun) turbulence, violence, turmoil.
tīwhana
- (verb) (-tia) to curve, arch.
- (noun) lines of moko over the eyebrows
hahau
- (verb) (-ngia,-ria,-tia) (hāua) to strike, hew, chop, fashion with an adze, smite, hit.
- (noun) adzing, hewing, chopping.
hāhau
- (verb) (-ria) to seek, look for, search for, hunt.
taikaha
- (verb) to be stubborn, persistent, violent, strict, severe, hard-nosed, stern, harsh, forceful.
- (noun) severity, harshness, sternness.
- (noun) violence.
oati
- (loan) (verb) (-tia) to swear an oath, swear in, promise, pledge, guarantee, vow, swear,
- (loan) (noun) promise, guarantee, pledge, word, bond, vow, commitment, undertaking, assurance, oath.
pūmau
- (verb) to be fixed, constant, permanent, true to, steadfast, faithful, staunch.
rēhita
- (loan) (verb) (-tia) to register.
paearu
- (noun) criterion, criteria.
hītoko
- (verb) to hop on one foot.