pouaru
1. (verb) (-tia) to be left a widow/widower.
I tana hokinga atu ki Whakarapa i te tau 1911, kore rawa ia i whakaae ki te tono mai a tana matua kia moea e ia te ariki o Ngāti Tūwharetoa, a Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V, kātahi tonu nei ka pouarutia (TTR 2000:36). / When she returned to Whakarapa in 1911 she refused her father’s request that she should marry the recently widowed paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tukino V.
2. (modifier) solitary.
Kia tomo mai he tuna pouaru (W 1971:298). / So that a solitary eel could enter.
3. (noun) widow, widower.
Nō te matenga o Paurini, he rangatira nō Ngāti Tūwharetoa, i Te Pōrere i Oketopa, ka rere atu te pouaru ki a Kawepō, kātahi ka hāua atu ā muri o te māhunga ki te patu (TTR 1990:31). / When Paurini, a chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, was killed at Te Pōrere in October, the widow leapt at Kawepō and clubbed him on the back of his head.
