Vocab 4 Flashcards
Whakaae
to agree, consent (-hia,-ngia,-tia)
Permission
Porohaurangi 😵💫🍺
Drunkenness
Ringi
To pour out, pour into (-a, -hia, -tia)
Rorerore 🌭🍔🔥
To barbeque, grill (-a)
Ngoi (n)
Strength, energy
Takoha
To gift, donate (-hia)
Gift, donation, tip
Pūremu 💋
To commit adultery (-tia)
Adulterous
Infidelity
Pūtē weru 🧦
Laundry basket
Whakapiako 🗑️🫗🫙
To empty out (-tia)
Kapurangi 🚮
Rubbish, trash, litter
Tapi (v1)
To patch, mend, repair, darn (-a)
Whare tahu pia
Brewery
Tuakiri
Person, personality, identity
Wall (of a house)
Tīaho (iv)
To emit rays of light, shine
Wao
Forest
Kapi (st)
To be occupied, filled, covered
To be closely guarded
Kauhoe
To swim (-a, -tia)
Wetiweti 👹
to be disgusting, loathsome, abhorrent, horrible, repulsive, revolting, vile, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrid, shocking, undesirable
Pīata
To be shiny, bright, polished
Kerepe
Grape
Nau
To come, go
come - followed by mai is sometimes used to introduce a suggestion
welcome - with mai, a call of welcome.
Rite (tv)
To resemble, compare with (-a)
To be alike, equal
Similar to
Rite (iv)
To be prepared, ready
Whakawhētai
To give thanks, be grateful (-tia)
Gratitude
Haratau 🪛
To be convenient, relevant
To be dextrous, adept
To practice, refine
Hara
To be in violation of a tapu, transgress, commit a sin, violate the law
Offending, criminal (adj)
Sin, crime
Tūraha 🏞️🐡🦈
To be spread out, separated
To keep away, keep clear
To be open, not confined
Moho
Moron, blockhead
Horo 🧑🦯🤸🌋🌊
to slip, fall, crumble down, fall off, waste away (-a, -tia)
To break (as a wave)
Landslide
Kūrae 📽️
To project
Peninsula
Aho
To shine
Radiant light (as opposed to diffused)
Pari (v) 🌊
to come in, flow (of the tide), flow over, flood (-a)
Flowing, high tide
Hūngoingoi 🍃🧓🧑🦼🛌
To tremble
Weak, frail
Cowardly
An elderly woman
Ihi
essential force, excitement, thrill, power, charm, personal magnetism - psychic force as opposed to spiritual power
Beam of light
Uiui
to question, interrogate, investigate (-a, -tia)
To be inquisitive
Questioning, interrogation
Ea
(stat)
be satisfied (an account, score, etc.), satisfy, settled, avenged
Be satisfied (of a wish), fulfilled, gratified
Tumeke (iv) 😲
to be surprised, shocked, take fright, frightened, startled
Riro (sv) 💰
To be got, obtained, earned
To be inherited
To be awarded
Kī (tv)
to say, speak, express, utter, call, mention, tell (-a, -ia, -tia)
Word, saying
Kī (sv)
To be full
Tūtū 👉🦸🧙🧞🦸
To summon, assemble (tūtawa?)
A messenger
Whiti (V2)
To change, turn, transfer
To cross over
(-a)
Tawhiti (iv)
to be distant, far away, widely separated in space or time, remote
Distance, a long way away
From abroad
Āwangawanga 😰
to be uneasy in mind, disturbed, worried, anxious
Worrying, concerning
Distress, anxiety
Taurangi 📜💝🤞
To guarantee, promise, assure
Pūrerehua
Butterfly
Wahangū
to be dumb, quiet, still, not talkative, silent
Korenga
Non-existence, absence, non-occurance, lack
Āhuatanga
way, aspect, likeness, circumstance, characteristic, property, feature
Ētahi
Some, others
Toki
Axe
Metaphorical knife edge?
Puku
very - intensifier when used before or after the word it qualifies
To swell
swelling, tumour, lump, bubble, stomach, abdomen, center
E ai ki (ngā kōrero…)
According to (hearsay…)
Pāpouri
To be hurt, in pain, sad, upset
Grief, distress, sorrow
Pūhiko
Battery
Ārai tīkākā
Sun block
(sunburn block)
Hunuhunu 🍔🥩
To BBQ, singe, scorch, grill, plunder, maltreat
Ōkawa ☑️
(st) to be formal, official
Ōpaki
(st) to be informal, unofficial
Hārau 👇
To grope for
To touch lightly, graze
(-a)
To be heard of, vaguely
To win by chance
Takoki
To twist, be sprained
Marū 🥑🍌🍑🥫
To be bruised, crushed
To be killed
To be cooked
Bruising
Hāparapara 🧑⚕️🪒🔪
Cut, severed
Surgical
Surgical operation
Rākei
To adorn, embellish (-hia, -tia)
Whakarākei
to adorn, decorate, garnish, embellish, put on makeup (-ngia, -tia)
Decorative
Decoration
Rae
Forehead, temple
Headland, promontory
Haumi 👭🪢🪙
to join, lengthen by addition, reserve, lay aside, invest (finance)
In alliance
Ally
Tāiki
Wicker basket, anything made of natural products such as supplejack
Mātakini 🧩
complex, having many parts, complicated, composite
Tāmau 🔒
To fasten, lock up, secure (-ngia, -tia)
To betroth (-a, -ngia,-tia)
Aha atu…
And so on…
Hotu 😥😭😮💨
To sob, pant, sigh
To yearn for
Sobbing
Kiri
Skin, bark, rind
Self (figurative)
Irawhiti
Transgender
Tohutō
Macron (to mark long vowels)
Nono
Anus, backside, bum, butt
Kauae
Jawbone, chin
Uru (n) 💇♀️ 👸
Head, hair of the head
Chief, leader
Person (figurative)
Ara (n)
Path, passageway, route
Kitenga
Sighting, finding, observation, perception
Kēhua
To haunt
Ghost, spirit who lingers after death and haunts the living
Ia (p)
Every time, each time, all the time
Waiū 🐄
Milk
Auau 📻🛰️
To be frequent, recurring
Frequency
Tāuwhiuwhi (tv) 🚿
To sprinkle (-a, -tia)
Shower
Āhua (n)
Appearance, shape, condition, figure
“It looks as though”
Kakī
Neck
Rīrapa
To be tangled, matted, cross-grained
Hamstring
Tuhinga
Document, writing, script
Turipona 🦵
Knee joint
Hāpai 🫂
To take up, support, shoulder (-ngia,-tia)
To lift up, elevate, mete out (-a, -na, -nga, -ngia, -tia)
Tētahi
one, a, an, a certain, particular
Ētahi
Some, others
(Plural of tētahi)
Ara (v) 🌇
To rise up, awake, arise
(-hia, -ia, -tia)
Mata
face, countenance, edge, blade, eye, screen (computer), headland
Surface
Point, tip
Pihi
To cut, split
Whaiwhai
to chase, hunt, follow, pursue, aim at
(-tia, whāia)
Pursuit, hunt, chase
Āmuri
the time to come, after that, from this time onwards, from now on, in the future, henceforth, hereafter
Piro
to be putrid, stinking, rotten, stagnant
to be offensive, disgusting
Smelly, stinky, rotten
Tā (tv1) 🥁
to dump, strike, beat, thump, throw down (-ia, -ngia)
Tāia
Passive of tā meaning ‘to be overcome by sleep’
Kōhimuhimu 🙊
to whisper, gossip, backbite, defame, denigrate (-tia)
Whisper, gossip, rumor
Taraka
Truck
Motopaika
Motorcycle
Tereina
Train
Huri tuarā
Turn back, turn around
Ngaruiti
Microwave
Hāmama 🗣️
to shout, yell, open the mouth
Gaping
Shouting, yelling
Whakairi
To hang up, suspend, elevate
(-a, -hia)
Pūmau 🗿
to be fixed, constant, permanent, true to, steadfast, faithful, staunch
endurance, permanence, durability, stability
Mīharo
To wonder at, admire (-tia)
Marvelous, amazing
Astonishment, amazement
Nuku
To move, shift, extend (-hia, -tia)
Extent, throughout, length and breadth
Waiho 🏚️
to let be, leave alone, put, place, ignore - in classical Māori it sometimes did not take a passive ending when used as a command but it usually takes one in modern Māori
To abandon
(-ngia,-tia)
Rapa (v1)🌩️🌠
To flash (as of lightning)
To be spread out, extended
Wide
Ahakoa
although, notwithstanding, despite, even though, whatever, no matter, in spite of, nevertheless.
Kawa
Be bitter, sour, have an unpleasant taste
Unpalatable, acidic
Bitterness, acidity
Acid
Roimata
Tear (of crying)
Tiwha 🥸🐘🗼
To be conspicuous
To be chipped, scarred, scratched
To appeal for help in time of war
To be black
Taputapu
gear, equipment, goods, moveable property, apparatus, utensil, hardware, gadget, tool, appliance, device, instrument, prop
Whēkau 🌭
Internal organs, intestines, bowels, guts
Oko (n)
Bowl, open container
Pīrahi
Fragile
Takaroa ⌚
To be late, tardy
Delay
Pakupaku 🤏
To be small, minute, diminutive
Smallness
Wāhi (n)
location, locality, place, part, piece, portion, section, share, segment
Tauhou
to be strange, unacquainted, new, exotic, unfamiliar
Novice, stranger
Auraki 🚣♂️📣🗞️
To urge (-hia,-na,-ngia,-tia)
To return
Mainstream
Mura 🕯️
(stat) be glowing, ablaze, alight, blazing, burning, on fire.
Ruku 🤿👍
To dive, diving, dive for (-a, -hia)
Mōmona
To be fat, fatty, in good condition, rich, fertile (of land)
Pāuaua 🏋️♂️
To be strong, persevering, enterprising
Koto 😠😨
To be loath, averse, disinclined
Mutunga
end, conclusion, finish, terminus, finite
Kangakanga
To curse, swear frequently, abuse (-ia)
Kōeko
Taper to a point
Cone, pyramid, steeple
Aihikirīmi
Ice cream
Tapepe 😃🫢🥴
to falter, slip, stumble, speak incoherently, speak inarticulately, totter
Ahitereiria
Australia
Ipo
Love, pertaining to love
Sweetheart, darling, beloved
Pakirara 🤬
To be inconsiderate, rude, ill mannered, careless
Tarau makere
Promiscuous woman
(Lost pants)
Ure paratī
Promiscuous man
(Splashy dick)
Kotiti 🚧
to go astray, stray, deviate, go off course
crooked, crookedly, astray, off the track, awry, off the mark
Taringa kōhatu
“stone ears”
To be deaf; or stubborn
Humi
To be abundant, copious
Rahurahu 🦽🔨
to handle, pull about, meddle with
(-a, -ria, -tia)
Tārewa
to raise up, lift, suspend, hang (-tia)
To be hanging, dangling
To be unresolved, undecided, set aside
Heamana
Chairperson
Whirinaki 🪜
To lean, slant, slope, depend on, rely on
Whakawhiwhi 🏆
to award, present, give, endow, supply, bestow, confer, grant (-a)
Providing, bestowing
Kaipara ⚽🏐🎾
Athletics, athlete, sports competition
Tūhura 🧐🌏🛶
to discover, disclose, bring to light, unearth, open up, explore, investigate (-hia,-ina,-tia)
Rewa (iv1) 🧊
To melt, become liquid, dissolve
Rewa (V2) 🛫
To get underway, depart, set off
Rewa (iv3) 🎈
To float
To be elevated, high up
Horokukū 😒
To be reluctant, disinclined
Whakatoihara 👎
(-hia,-ngia,-tia) to disparage, belittle, deride, denigrate, be racist, prejudge, practise discrimination, be bigoted
Āhei hā!
Absolutely! Yes, indeed!
Rārangi
To list, arrange, itemize
To line up
(-hia, -tia)
Line, rank, queue, list, catalog
Oneone
Earth, soil, dirt
Ihu oneone (k)
A hard worker
(Nose to the ground)
Māua māua
we both, both of us - an idiom to state that two or more people share the same attribute, interests, opinion or background
Tōneke 🛒
Trolly, cart
Hautū
To guide, keep in time
Leadership, leader, person in charge
Rōpere
Strawberry
Mōwaiwai
To make the mouth water, salivate
Mouth watering
Paheke (v2) 💧
To slip, slide by, be slippery
To trickle, flow
Discharge
Hūare 🤤
Spit, saliva
Mātua kēkē
Aunts, uncles
Whakapae 🛌 🤬
(-a,-tia) to lie horizontal, lay across, accuse, blame, allege, assert, hypothesise, complain.
assertion, accusation, allegation, blame, complaint, charge, hypothesis
Pōhēhē
To misunderstand, think mistakenly
To be bewildered, perplexed
Mistake, error, misjudgement
Makau ❤️
favourite, object of affection, lover, spouse, wife, husband
Ahurea 🖼️🎶
Culture
Porowhawhe 🎠
To go round in a circle
Indirect
Roundabout, merry-go-round
Māwhaiwhai 🕸️
Spider web (or climbing net for children)
Tāheke
To drop, flow (of liquid) (-a)
Waterfall
Children’s slide
Hapori 🧩
section of a kinship group, family, society, community
Manawa kai tūtae
daring, undaunted, adventurous, audacious, bold, fearless, game, intrepid, plucky
Daredevil, adventurer
Tēhea
Which?
Pirihonga 💍
To be attached, faithful, committed
Īnoi
(-a,-tia) to beg, pray, request, appeal
Whakaware
(-a,-ngia,-tia) to beguile, delude, cheat, trick
deceitful, devious, deceiving, beguiling, enticing
deceit, treachery, deceitfulness, deception, trickery, duplicity, guile
Ware
To forget
Thoughtlessly, carelessly
In ignorance
Tūmata (tv) 🔥
(-tia) to set on fire, burn, incinerate, ignite
Kōtiritiri ☄️
Meteor, shooting star
Tūpāpaku 🧟♂️
Corpse, deceased, cadaver
Hora 🛸📰🖼️
(-hia,-ia,-ina) to spread out, display, make public, scatter, lie scattered about, go, flee, escape
Spread, display
Hē
(-ngia) to be wrong, mistaken, incorrect
incorrectly, wrongly, in bad condition
error, fault, mistake, difficulty, harm, fallacy, blunder
Hua (v1) 🗣️ ™️
To name, call (-ina)
To think, think of, know, decide (-ina)
Outline
Hua (V2)
to bear fruit, originate, be abundant, accrue
To flower, bloom
product, fruit, berry, roe, egg, progeny, value, finding, result, outcome, asset, benefit
Rongonui
Famous, well known
Fame
Makere 👖☄️
to be dropped, fall from a height, get down, get rid of, take off, alight, descend
To be lost, abandoned
Tūraparapa
Trampoline
Whata 🛗
(-a,-hia) to elevate, support, bring into prominence
to be hanging, suspended
Shelf
Waipiro
Liquor, alcohol
Hūnuku
(-hia) to move, shift
Family dependants
Pouraka ⚰️
Coffin, receptacle for the dead
Pōwaiwai 🙋♂️
(-hia,-tia) to move with a fan-like motion, fluctuate, wave
Tokomaha
be many, numerous, lots of, increased - when referring to people
Whakapapa
(-hia,-tia) to lie flat, lay flat
to place in layers, lay one upon another, stack flat
to recite in proper order (e.g. genealogies, legends, months), recite genealogies
Rā nui 🌞
midday, noon, middle of the day, meridian
Whakakī
To fill (-a, -ia)
Tukatuka
To start up (a vehicle), proceed forward
Tūpapa 💺
Bench
Kōata 🪟🥛
Glass (material)
Muku 🧻👞
(-a) to wipe, rub, smear, scrub, delete
Wipes, duster, dishcloth
Waku 🦷🧽
(-a,-hia,-tia) to rub, scrape, abrade, polish
Abrasion
Taitai (v1) 🪥
To brush, scrub
To perform a tapu removal ceremony
(-a)
Brush
Taitai (V2) 🤼
(-a) to wrestle, dash, strike, knock
Wrestling
Pōtarotaro 🚜
cut close, cropped, mowed, clipped, sheared, closely cropped
Lawnmower
Mauti ⛳
grass, weeds, vegetation, lawn
Kōnehu 🌦️🏜️
Dust; drizzle
Tāoke
(-a,-tia) to be toxic
Pūkoro 🎒👜👛
pocket, sheath, scabbard, pouch, condom
Wheako 🏔️🏟️🫂
Experience, intimate acquaintance
Pūmua 🥩
Protein
Mōhani 🥤
Smoothie
Kōti (tv)
(-a,-ngia,-ria,-tia) to judge (in court)
Court
Herehere
(-a,-tia) to tie up (a number of times), bind, tie, shackle, hobble
Prisoner, captive, accused
Auare ake 👎🚫
not able, not a chance, not at all, missed completely, to no avail, no success, no such luck, no way, no show - this idiom is used to indicate that something was not, or will not be, achieved because the person did not listen to advice, want to do something, or did not have the ability or strength
Whakapōtaetanga
crowning, capping, graduation
Marae o Hinemoana
The beach
Akiaki 📣🍻
(-hia,-na,-ngia,-tia) to urge, encourage, incite, urge on, exhort
Whiwhi
to have, acquire, possess, win (a prize, etc.), obtain, get, receive - used as an ordinary verb but not passively
Hura 👰♂️🃏🪄🎱
(-hia,-ina) to remove (a covering), show (cards), uncover, expose, unveil
Raha 🪆↔️🏀
to be open, extended
Kere (i) 🌑
intensely, exceedingly, extremely, very - an intensive used with words related to darkness
quite - an intensifier used with word involving breaking, e.g. poro kere, whati kere, motu kere.
Matatau 🧠💬☺️
(-hia,-ria) to know, know well, be proficient, expert at, competent, fluent
learned, experienced, well-informed, knowledgeable, competent, fluent
Remu 🦚
tail feathers, posterior, buttock
lower end (of anything), border of a garment, lower hem
Remnants
Hārakiraki 😵💫😲☹️🧙
be unreliable, inconsistent, erratic, temperamental, eccentric
Tōmua
To be early; previous
Tae noa
As far as, up until
Whatu
eye, pupil of the eye, anchor, kernel (of fruit)
Anahera
Angel
Kura (2) 🖍️❤️💋
Red, scarlet
Red feathers
Glow
Whero
To be red, turn red
red, reddish-brown, orange-red
Mārire (p)
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 - a word to intensify and add emphasis, often translated by one of the above
Mārire (iv)
to be peaceful, quiet, fortunate, appeased
Softness (of sound)
Ko
A particle with no English equivalent used when talking about something specific and used before proper names, pronouns and common nouns preceded by a definitive
To
At
Mau (V2) 🧥
to put on, wear
(-ria) to take up, carry, take, bring (when followed by mai)
to lay hold of, grasp (followed by ki), wield (as in mau rākau)
Whao (v1) 🤳👜🚪
(-hia,-na,-ngia,-ria,-whia,-whina) to put into (a bag, receptacle, etc.)
To fill
To go into, enter
Whao (V2) 🔪🔨🗿🏛️
(-a,-whia) to chisel out
Iron tool, chisel
Whakatuwhera
(-ngia,-tia,-hia) to open
Whakanikoniko 🧑🎨
(-hia,-tia) to adorn with curves, enhance, ornament, embellish
Adornment
Māharahara
(-tia) to think frequently of, think about
to be anxious, preoccupied, worried, apprehensive
Pūahi 🚬🕯️
Cigarette lighter
Tēhea
which? (referring to one thing)
Ēhea
Which (plural)
Whakamahi
(-a,-ngia) to set to work, cause to work, operate, put to work, employ, use
Kauruku 🖍️
To add shading, color
Tia (n)
Deer
(Also steer)
Kura noho
Boarding school
Pūoto 🍶
vessel, container, flask - anything to hold water or liquids
Rehu 👀 🌁🫣🫥
(-a) to pass out of sight, disappear, render unconscious
Haze, mist, spray, fine dust
Pōnaho 🤏
Small, diminutive
Pae (tv) 🗾🏝️🛥️🏙️
(pāea) to be cast ashore, aground, stranded, wrecked, lie across, surround with a border, horizontal.
Pūareare 🧀
To be holey, having holes
Piripiri 🫂
(-ngia) to keep close, close together, stick, cling, adhere
Maimoa 🐱👶🫂
(-tia) to cherish, take care of
Pet
Decoy
Wawata 😍💗💭
(-hia,-ngia,-tia) to desire earnestly, long for, yearn for, daydream, aspire
Hōpuni ⛺
Camp; temporary shelter
Koi 🗡️🥕🍴
be sharp, pointed
Spike, splinter
Point, headland, promontory
Wero 🤺⚔️
(-hia,-ngia) to pierce, spear, challenge, stab, poke, jab, bite, puncture, sting (of an insect), inject
A challenge
Hinengaro 💭
mind, thought, intellect, consciousness, awareness.
Panga
Riddle, guessing game, puzzle
Whakapiri
(-ngia,-a,-hia,-tia) to stick, fasten, remain close to, keep close, keep watertight, paste
Close association
Kūare
to be ignorant, unaware, unenlightened, naive, uninformed, illiterate, uneducated, unknowing, low in the social scale, held in no esteem.
Tea
White, transparent, clear
Pale colored
Hei aha…
What is … for?
Huka
snow, foam, froth - also a general term for any of the other white forms of precipitation, i.e hail and frost
Sugar
Ū (iv)🪨💪
to be firm, fixed, resolute, unyielding
Paihamu 🐨
common brushtail possum
Mātaitai 🐟🍥
seafood, shellfish - fish or other food obtained from the sea
Salty
Pātōtō 🪘
(-hia,-tia) to make a repeated knocking noise, knock, tap, rap
Pukamata
Pāhorangi
Podcast
Wheta 🤺 ⚽🥅
to move rapidly to avoid a blow, feint, doge, sidestep
To struggle with, make an effort
Ngaki (V2) 🧑🏫⏳📖🧑🎓
(-a,-tia) to apply oneself to, occupy oneself intently with, strive for, make every effort, endeavour, take advantage of enthusiastically
Hōtaka 📄📺
Programme, schedule, TV show
Tāmure 🐟
snapper, Chrysophrys auratus - silvery pinkish to golden fish with numerous bright blue spots over upper sides
Kuti
(kūtia) to cut, shear
Hau (iV) 👂🦻
to be heard, resound, spread (news), famous
Takirua
In twos, double, in pairs
Pair, duo, duet
Pā onepū
Sand castle
Hāmene 🧑⚖️👎💰
(-hia,-tia) to sue, summon (legal), penalise, charge, accuse
summons, penalty, charge, culprit
Whakakapi
(-a) to fill up (a space), occupy, replace, stand as a substitute
cover, substitute, successor, replacement
Pōrangi 🌚🌕😵💫
be insane, mad, crazy, mentally ill, deranged, beside oneself, headstrong, hurried, stupid
stupidity, silliness, lunatic, insanity, madne
Pāparakāuta
Pub, bar
Taki(# kupu)
Prefix before 1-9 to indicate # of people present in a group (use mano or tini to indicate a large group)
(-tia when following passive verb)
Taki 🧮
Each and every one (in group, of you, etc)
to go in a group of (with the number added)
Puta noa 🌏
throughout, everywhere, unlimited
Puehu 🌺🏜️🏗️🏙️
(-tia) to get dusty, turbid, hazy
Dust, silt, pollen
Taihoa [ake] (pronoun) (tense) (verb)
In a short while (pronoun) (tense) (verb)
Ranga 🌱🥕🚕👬
(rangā,-a) to raise up (from the ground), pull up by the roots
to set in motion, transport
Team, group, company (of people)
Me kore (ake)…
Fortunately,…
..to see if…
..just in case…
in case…may, were fortunate, to see whether, if it were not for, thanks to, it’s just as well - an idiom praising the importance of someone’s or something’s contribution.
Tūmatanui 🗼⛪🏪
open, public, without disguise
I te āhua nei
It looks as if…
Hangarau 💻🎥📡💡
Technology
Technological
Māeneene (st) 👶🐈⬛🐍
To be smooth, soft to the touch
Kukume ⚓🦽
(kūmea) to drag, haul, pull
