Found 49 results matching "kai"

• muhu kai

  (stative) be inattentive.  
  

• Whare-kai-atua, Te

  (location) Cape Colville (northern point of the Coromandel Peninsula).  
  

• huanga kai

  (noun) crop.  
  

• Tamatea-kai-ariki

  (personal noun) moon on the sixth night of the lunar month.  
  

• anā [tō] kai!

  take that! serves you right! - idiom used when the speaker is unsympathetic towards the plight of another person.   I mahue au i te pahi ki te kura i te ata nei. Anā tō kai! Kāore koe i maranga i te wā e tika ana.I missed the school bus this morning. Serves you right! You didn't get up when you should have. (Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 107;Te Pihinga Audio Tapes/CDs (Ed. 2): exercise 40;Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 163;)
  

• hari kai

  (noun) song to entertain visitors as food is set out.   Tētahi take nui i whakaaetia e tēnei hui, ko ngā mahi a ngā tūpuna o mua kei ngaro, kia tino mahia nuitia i ēnei rā: Ngā whakataukī, ngā waiata Māori, ngā pepeha, me ngā tikanga katoa o ngā mea, me ngā harihari, tūtū ngārahu, me ngā hari kai (Pipi 8/1909 wh11).An important matter that was agreed to by the meeting was the activities of the ancestors of former times that these should be used widely today: The aphorisms, Māori songs, tribal sayings and the customary practices of everything, the songs to unite people in a common purpose, war dances and songs for presenting food. See also harikai, hari, kai.
  

• manawa kai tūtae

  (stative) be daring, undaunted, adventurous, audacious, bold, fearless, game, intrepid, plucky.  
  

• pata kai

  (noun) cereal.  
  

• tohutohu tao kai

  (noun) recipe, cooking instructions.  
  

• pātaka kai

  pantry, food storage.   Kua rima rā te parāoa ki te pātaki kai - nā whai anō i kāhekaheka (PK wh179).The bread has been in the pantry for five days - so that's the reason it's gone mouldy.
  

• Ngāi Tahu

  (personal noun) tribal group of much of the South Island, sometimes called Kai Tahu by the southern tribes.   (Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 113;Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 142-160;)
  

• papa-kai

  (noun) tablecloth.  
  

• tunu kai

  (noun) cooking.   (Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 35-45;)
  

• whare kai

  (noun) dining hall.   See also wharekai.
  

• hemo i te kai

  1. (stative) be hungry.   Ka hemo au i te kai (W wh45).I'm hungry.
  2. (verb) to starve.  
  

• mahinga kai

  (noun) garden, cultivation.   Ko ngā otaota hoki o ngā pāmu kua maroke rawa atu, ānō he mea tahu ki te ahi. Waihoki me ngā tāngata Māori e auhi ana ki ā rātou mahinga kai (KO 15/1/1886 wh3).And the grass of the farms has dried off completely as if it was burnt with fire. In addition the Māori people are distressed about their gardens.
  

• mate kai

  (stative) be hungry.   See also matekai.
  

• puku

  an intensifier when used before or after the word it qualifies, e.g. puku horo kai (ravenous), pukukai (greedy, gluttonous), pukuriri (furious).   Heoi, ka noho nei te taniwha, ko tana mahi, he patu i ngā tira haere; arā, he kai i ngā tāngata, horopuku tonu, ahakoa he kawenga tā te tangata, ka horomia pukutia e taua taniwha (JPS 1905 wh200).And so the taniwha remained there. His occupation was killing the travelling parties - that is, he used to swallow them whole, even if they had loads on their backs they were swallowed up by that taniwha.
  

• pīmua

  (noun) prefix - an affix placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning, e.g. kai-, whaka-, taki-, toko-, poro-, tau-, hoko- and tua-.   Ka piki whakarunga te nanenane ki te tihi o te toka.The goat climbed to the top of the rock.
  

• kaiākiri

  1. (noun) flesh wound.   See also tū kaiākiri.
  2. (noun) civil war, internecine war.   Ka tae ki te takurua o 1865, ka tū te kaiākiri i waenga i Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki i te kaha kaikā o te nuinga o rātau ki te whakapono o te Pai Mārire (arā, te hāhi Hauhau) (TTR 1994 wh33).When the winter of 1865 arrived, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki were torn apart by the enthusiasm of the majority for the Pai Mārire (Hauhau) faith.