Niu Tīrani
1. (loan) (location) Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Kia tūpato, e ngā Māori o Niu Tīrani, kei mau koutou i tēnei hara nui e akona mai nei e te Mōmona, arā, te pūremu (HKW 5/1998:3). / Take care, you Māori of New Zealand, lest you take on this major sin which the Mormons are teaching here, that is, adultery.
Synonyms: Niu Tīreni, Aotearoa, Niu Tīrene
Niu Tīrene
1. (loan) (location) Aotearoa/NewZealand.
Nō Hiteni, nō Wikitōria, nō Atareire, nō Hopatāone, nō Niu Tīrene, nō Tongatapu, nō Whītī aua minita (TH 4/1859:2). / Those ministers were from Sydney, Victoria, Adelaide, Hopetown, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji.
Synonyms: Niu Tīrani, Niu Tīreni, Aotearoa
Aotearoa
1. (location) North Island - now used as the Māori name for New Zealand.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)
Ko tētehi o aua keke i waiho hei tukutuku ki ngā whanaunga, i ia wāhi, i ia wāhi o Aotearoa, o Te Waipounamu (TW 21/2/1876:72). / One of those cakes was left to be sent to relatives in each part of the North and South Islands.
Synonyms: Hutinga a Māui, Te, Ika-a-Māui, Te, Ikaroa-a-Māui, Te, Niu Tīrani, Niu Tīreni, Niu Tīrene
2. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach,Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, rengamutu, rengarenga
akakiore
1. (noun) New Zealand jasmine, native jasmine, Parsonsia heterophylla, small New Zealand jasmine, Parsonsia capsularis - native climbing vines which often twine around themselves. Have longish leaves and white, sweet-scented, tubular flowers.
Engari te akakiore, kāore he niho o tērā (W 1971:221). / But the New Zealand jasmine, that has no thorns.
Synonyms: tautaua, kaihua, akakaikiore, tawhiwhi, poapoa tautaua, tūtae kererū, kaikū, kaiwhiria, tōtorowene, tōtoroene
rengamutu
1. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, kōkihi, rengarenga
tūtae ikamoana
1. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: rengamutu, kōkihi, rengarenga
rengarenga
1. (verb) to be crushed, pounded, destroyed, beaten.
Synonyms: kōrengarenga
2. (noun) rock lily, New Zealand lily, Arthropodium cirratum - a native plant with light green, broad and strap-like, glossy leaves and white flowers with yellow and purple centres, star-like on spindly, branching stalks. Grows in the North Island and the northern South Island, mostly on sea cliffs.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 98;)
Koirā a ia i kī ai: 'Māku anō e hanga tōku nei whare. Ko te tāhuhu he hīnau ko ngā poupou he māhoe, patatē. Me whakatupu ki te hua o te rengarenga, me whakapakari ki te hua o te kawariki.' (TTR 1994:134) / That's why he said: 'I myself shall build my house. The ridge-pole will be of hīnau and the supporting posts of māhoe and patatē. Raise the people with the fruit of the rengarenga, strengthened them with the fruits of the kawariki.'
3. (noun) beach spinach, New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, and climbing New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia implexicoma - similar native plants with round to heart-shaped, alternating, thick, fleshy leaves glistening with a fine powder. Have small, yellow flowers in spring. Creeping plants with stems and leaves often reddish. Found on sand dunes, beach gravel, and rocks.
See also kōkihi
Synonyms: tūtae ikamoana, rengamutu, kōkihi
akakaikiore
1. (noun) New Zealand jasmine, native jasmine, Parsonsia heterophylla, small New Zealand jasmine, Parsonsia capsularis - native climbing vines which often twine around themselves. Have longish leaves and white, sweet-scented, tubular flowers.
See also akakiore
Synonyms: tautaua, kaihua, akakiore, tawhiwhi, poapoa tautaua, tūtae kererū, kaikū, kaiwhiria, tōtorowene, tōtoroene
2. (modifier) Māori.
Kai tēnei reanga te oranga o te reo Māori me ngā tamariki e whakaakona ana e rātau ki te reo (Kāretu 2015). / The health of the Māori language is with this generation and the children being taught the language by them.
3. (noun) Māori, indigenous New Zealander, indigenous person of Aotearoa/New Zealand - a new use of the word resulting from Pākehā contact in order to distinguish between people of Māori descent and the colonisers.
I akona te reo Māori e ia nō te mea he ngākaunui ia ki te Māori (HP 1991:27). / He learnt the Māori language because he was kindly disposed towards Māori people.
See also māori
mīmiha
1. (noun) ambergris - a strong-smelling waxlike secretion of the intestine of the sperm whale sometimes found floating in the sea or washed up on the shore. Used in the perfume industry.
He pānuitanga tēnei kia kawea mai e ngā tāngata whai mīmiha tohorā, ka utua i runga i te utu nui rawa e Hēmi A. Hararete (KO 17/3/1887:11). / This is a notice that invites people who have ambergris to bring it in and they will be paid handsomely by James A. Haslett.
2. (noun) New Zealand fur seal, Arctocephalus forsteri - distinguished from the larger New Zealand sea lion by lacking obvious ears and being unable to stand on all fours when on land.
I haere atu te mīmiha ki uta ki te kimi kai hei oranga mōna, ka kī te puku, ka moe (TPH 28/10/1905:1). / A New Zealand fur seal went ashore to look for food to sustain itself, and when its stomach was full it slept.
See also kekeno
kekeno
1. (noun) New Zealand fur seal, Arctocephalus forsteri - distinguished from the larger New Zealand sea lion by lacking obvious ears and being unable to stand on all fours when on land.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 46; Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 1;)
Ka pakaru ngā kākahu, ka tuia he kākahu mō rātou ki te kiri kekeno, he iwi toroa ngā ngira (TWM 20/2/1868:5). / When their clothes were ragged they sewed garments of seal skins and the needles were of albatross bone.
