kiore
1. (noun) rat, Rattus exulans - also used for the larger brown Norway rat or pouhawaiki (Rattus norvegicus), the black ship rat (Rattus rattus) and the house mouse (Mus musculus).
Pērā hoki me Māui-pōtiki i tango rā i te āhua o te kāhu, o te kāeaea, o te ruru, o te kea, o te pekapeka, o te kiore, o te kererū, o te noke hoki; kātahi anō ka mate i a Hine-nui-te-pō i roto i tōna whare i Pōtaka-rongorongo. (JPS 1922:48). / It was thus that Māui-pōtiki took on the form of the harrier hawk, the New Zealand falcon, the morepork, the kea, the bat, the rat, the pigeon, and the worm; until he was finally killed by Hine-nui-te-pō in her house at Pōtaka-rongorongo.
Synonyms: hāmua, muritai, hinamoki, inamoki, porerarua, maungarua, rīroi, kaingarua, pouhawaiki, pou o Hawaiki
kaingarua
1. (noun) Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus - larger brown rat, arrived with the first European settlers.
See also pouhawaiki
Synonyms: maungarua, kiore, pouhawaiki, pou o Hawaiki
pou o Hawaiki
1. (noun) Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus - larger brown rat, arrived with the first European settlers.
Nō te rau tau atu i 1700 ka tae te Pākehā me ngā kiore o Nōwei ki Aotearoa. I te rau tau 1800 ka tae ake ngā kiore noho kaipuke. Ko ētahi o ngā ingoa Māori mō ēnei kiore ko te pou o Hawaiki, ko muritai (Te Ara 2012). / Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) were introduced to New Zealand by Europeans in the 18th century, and ship rats (Rattus rattus) in the 19th century. Māori names for these rats included pou-o-Hawaiki and muritai.
Synonyms: maungarua, kiore, kaingarua, pouhawaiki
maungarua
1. (noun) Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus - larger brown rat, arrived with the first European settlers.
Ko te kiore te ingoa noa o tēnei kararehe ki Aotearoa nei, heoi, arā atu anō ngā ingoa: maungarua, mō te kiore rahi; tāpapa, he kiore ora te tipu; torokaha, he kiore nui; tokoroa, he kiore kiritea; hāmua, he tohu aituā, kīhai i kainga (Te Ara 2016). / Kiore is the usual name given to this species in New Zealand, although there are other names: maungarua is a large rat; tāpapa a well-grown rat; torokaha a big rat; tokoroa a white rat; while hāmua was a rat considered an ill omen and was not eaten.
See also pouhawaiki
Synonyms: kiore, kaingarua, pouhawaiki, pou o Hawaiki
pouhawaiki
1. (noun) Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus - larger brown rat, arrived with the first European settlers.
Ko taku ringaringa i kainga e te kiore pouhawaiki (JPS 1943:56). / My hand was being bitten by the Norway rat.
See also pou o Hawaiki, kiore
Synonyms: maungarua, kiore, kaingarua, pou o Hawaiki
2. (noun) Canadian fleabane, Erigeron canadensis - an annual plant that grows to 1.5 m, with sparsely hairy stems. Grows to 1.5 metres. The leaves are unstalked, slender, 2–10 cm long and up to 1 cm across, with a coarsely toothed margin. They grow in an alternate spiral up the stem.
See also hāka
2. (noun) Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans - originated in Southeast Asia but spread throughout Polynesia and Fiji. Eats seeds, fruit, leaves, bark, insects, earthworms, spiders, lizards, and avian eggs and hatchlings.
Ko ētahi o ngā ingoa Māori mō ēnei kiore ko te pou-o-Hawaiki, ko muritai (Te Ara 2011). / Some of the Māori names for these rats are pou-o-Hawaiki and muritai.
3. (noun) pilferer.
He muritai kai roto i tēnei karaehe (Ng 1993:339). / There is a pilferer in this class (Ng 1993:339).
2. (noun) variety of native rat, Rattus exulans.
Ko te kiore te ingoa noa o tēnei kararehe ki Aotearoa nei, heoi, arā atu anō ngā ingoa: maungarua, mō te kiore rahi; tāpapa, he kiore ora te tipu; torokaha, he kiore nui; tokoroa, he kiore kiritea; hāmua, he tohu aituā, kīhai i kainga (Te Ara 2016). / Kiore is the usual name given to this species in New Zealand, although there are other names: maungarua is a large rat; tāpapa a well-grown rat; torokaha a big rat; tokoroa a white rat; while hāmua was a rat considered an ill omen and was not eaten.
pokipoki
1. (verb) (-a,-na) to place with the concave surface down, pat, cover over, swamp, overrun, spread over.
2. (noun) baited rat trap.
Ka whakatakotoria ngā tāwhiti me ngā pokipoki ki ngā ara kiore i te wao (Te Ara 2016). / Unbaited traps and baited traps were set on the rat tracks in the forest.
3. (noun) fingering (of a wind instrument).
Ko te pokipoki te mahi a ngā matimati ki te kōpani, ki te whakapuare anō i ngā wenewene o tētahi taonga puoro (RTP 2015:76). / Fingering is the work of the fingers to cover and open the holes in a wind instrument (RTP 2015:76).
2. (noun) rat, mouse.
Kua tinitini haere te porerarua (TWMNT 11/7/1876:171). / There has been an enormous increase of rats and mice.
hinu
1. (noun) fat, grease, lard, dripping, oil, petrol.
Homai te hinu ōriwa mō taku parāoa. / Pass the olive oil for my bread, please.
Synonyms: hinu poaka, noni, kōhinu, penehīni
2. (noun) game - e.g. pigeons, rats, etc. preserved in their own fat.
Mōrunga rawa ake te rā ka puta ngā iwi i pōhiritia rā; ana, me he tuarā wharau ki te waha mai i ngā ika tauraki kua maroke, i ngā hāpuku, i ngā mangō, i ngā tawatawa, i ngā maomao, i te tini noa iho o ngā kai o te moana, ngā mahinga a tērā iwi nui tonu, a Te Ngutuau, me ngā iwi o te ngahere, o ngā maunga, e mau mai ana i te hinu, me ērā atu kai (JPS 1911:21). / The sun was already high when the tribes who were invited appeared; they were like the thatched roof of a house carrying the dried fish, hāpuku, shark, mackerel, maomao, and all kinds of provision from the sea, which had been got ready by that great tribe, the Ngutuau, and the tribes of the forest and the mountains, who brought game and other kinds of food.
pūponiki
1. (loan) (noun) bubonic plague - a contagious bacterial disease, spread by rats, characterised by fever, delirium and swollen inflamed lymph nodes in the armpits or groin.
Kei tētahi ake wāhi o tēnei putanga o tā tātau pepa ngā whakamārama mō te mate hou e patu nei i te tangata o tāwāhi, e kīia nei ko te ‘pūponiki’ (TP 4/1900:10). / In another part of this issue of our paper there are the explanations about this new disease killing people overseas, which is called ‘bubonic plague’.
