Found 58 results matching "kainga"

• tohutohu tao kai

  (noun) recipe, cooking instructions.  
  

• whare kai

  (noun) dining hall.   See also wharekai.
  

• puhi-kai-ariki

  (noun) little carved figure, facing the bow, at the base of the taurapa (sternpost) of a carved canoe.  
  

• pukapuka tao kai

  cookery book.  
  

• mate kai

  (stative) be hungry.   See also matekai.
  

• niho kai waiū

  baby tooth, milk tooth - children's teeth which are replaced by permanent ones.  
  

• muhu kai

  (stative) be inattentive.  
  

• papa-kai

  (noun) tablecloth.  
  

• pukapuka tunu kai

  (noun) cookbook.  
  

• wāhi kai

  (noun) café, restaurant.  
  

• Whare-kai-atua, Te

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

• pata kai

  (noun) cereal.  
  

• 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.
  

• kaihaumi

  1. (verb) to trespass, poach.  
  2. (noun) person who wanders over lands of other people where he has no rights and hunts there, trespasser, poacher.  
  

• kaimoana

  (noun) seafood, shellfish.   Ānō he karoro e topa ana i runga i ngā kaimoana (Pipi 12/1903 wh4).Like a black-backed gull soaring above seafood. See also kai moana.
  

• -tia

  A passive ending and the one most commonly used with words of more than two vowels, including borrowed words. It is also used for passive agreement for 'tonu', 'rawa', 'kau', 'noa', 'kē', 'katoa' and 'bases' acting as a modifier following a verb in the passive.   (Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 65-67, 84-85;Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 91-92;)
  

• taratara-o-Kai

  (noun) a pattern of surface decoration in carving and in weaving found especially on pātaka.  
  

• -nga

  1. (particle) A suffix used to make verbs into nouns sometimes called derived nouns. Commonly used with verbs that do not take a direct object and take the passive ending -a and -na, statives and adjectives. These nouns usually mean the place or the time of the verb's action.   Kei konei tō moenga.Your bed is here. (Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 88-89, 123-124;)
  2. (particle) A passive ending used with only a few verbs ending in -ai.   (Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 65-67, 84-85;)