Found 16 results matching "whiti"

• whiti

  1. (loan) (stative) be fit, in good form (for sport, etc.).  
  2. (loan) (noun) fitness.  
  

• Whiti-kaupeka

  (personal name) Spica - the brightest star in the constellation Virgo.  
  

• Whītī

  (loan) (location) Fiji.  
  

• whiti

  (verb) (-a) to change, cross over (a river, bridge, etc.), reach the opposite side.   Haere ai te mano ki Takapuna āhuareka ai, tākarokaro ai, i ngā wa e wātea ana i te mahi. Whiti ai ki ngā tima i ngā hāora katoa, i te ata, ahiahi noa, kākarauri noa, pōuri noa (TKO 14/6/1884 wh3).Thousands go to Takapuna for entertainment and recreation when they are free from work. The ferries cross all the time, in the morning, afternoon, at dusk and when it's dark.
  

• whiti

  1. (verb) (-a,-kia,-kina,-ngia) to shine (of sun).   Ānō he āniwaniwa ēnei kupu, ina kitea, e mōhio ana tātou tērā te ua e whitingia ana e te rā (KO 15/9/1885).It's as if these words are a rainbow in that when it's seen we know that the rain is being shone on by the sun.
  2. (noun) shining.  
  

• whiti

  (noun) verse, stanza, section of a song, paragraph.  
  

• Whiti-o-Rongomai, Erueti Te

  (personal name) (?-1907) Te Āti Awa, Taranaki; leader and prophet who helped establish Parihaka and a passive resistance movement against Pākehā land confiscation.   (Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 89-99;Te Kōhure Video Tapes (Ed. 1): 3;)
  

• Aituā

  (personal name) atua of disaster and death, fate - according to some narratives, he was the second son of Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku who joined Ioio-whenua when his father banished him to Whiti-ānaunau.   KI ngā iwi, ki ngā hapū, me ngā mana e pupuri mai nei i te mana Māori, i ngā marae o Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu, tēnā rā koutou, ngā mōrehu a Aituā, tūāhuatanga o ēnā o ō tātou rangatira ka riro rā ki Paerau, ki te huinga o te kahurangi, ki te takotoranga tē taea te whakakorikori (Pipi 8/1912 wh7).To the tribes, subtribes and the people of standing retaining Māori status on the marae of the North and South Islands, greetings to you all, who are the survivors of misfortune and stand in place of our leaders who have departed to the meeting place of the dead, to the gathering of the illustrious, to the resting place from which you are not able to move. (Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 40-42;) See also atua.
  

• Parinui o Whiti, Te

  (location) White Bluff (northern South Island).  
  

• Whitiānaunau

  1. (location) a place mentioned in the creation narratives where Hine-tītama fled to after learning that her husband, Tāne-nui-a-rangi, was also her father. There Aituā lived in his house, Whiti-nuku. Aituā then took Hine-tītama to the entrance to Te Reinga and to Whiti-reinga where Ioio-whenua, the eldest child of Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku, lived. There Hine-tītama became Hine-nui-te-pō and she remains in te pō to receive the spirits of the dead.  
  2. (personal noun) sixth month of the Māori lunar calendar, approximately equivalent to November.   Ko te putanga mai o Matariki te tohu mō te marama tuatahi, ko ngā ingoa hoki ēnei o ngā marama katoa: Te Tahi o Pipiri, Te Rua o Takurua,Te Toru Here o Pipiri, Te Whā o Mahuru, Te Rima o Kōpū, Te Ono o Whitiānaunau, Te Whitu o Hakihea, Te Waru o Rehua, Te Iwa o Rūhi-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru o Poutū-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru mā tahi, Te Ngahuru mā rua (Pipi 1/3/1901 wh6).The appearance of Pleiades is the sign for the first month and these are the names of all the months: The first is Pipiri, the second is Takurua, the third is Here o Pipiri, the fourth is Mahuru, the fifth is Kōpū, the sixth is Whiti-ānaunau, the seventh is Hakihea, the eighth is Rehua, the ninth is Rūhi-te-rangi, the tenth is Poutūterangi, the eleventh and twelth months. See also Whiringa-ā-rangi.
  

• Kūao-whiti

  (location) Harts River - flows into Lake Ellesmere on the western shore.  
  

• Parihaka

  (location) a town established on the slopes of Taranaki by Te Whiti and Tohu.   (Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 89-99;Te Kōhure Video Tapes (Ed. 1): 3;)
  

• tūmahi whiti

  (noun) transitive verb - a verb able to take a direct object.   Kei te tuhi ahau i tētahi reta ki te pirimia.I am writing a letter to the prime minister.
  

• Ioio-whenua

  (personal name) according to some narratives, he was the eldest son of Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku. He was banished to Whiti-reinga by his father because he continually attacked his brothers.   (Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 40-42;)
  

• Tai Rāwhiti, Te

  (location) East Coast (of the North Island).   Ko ia tētahi o ngā ihorei rongonui o taua rohe i te taenga tuatahi atu o ngā Pākehā ki Te Tai Rāwhiti (TTR 1990 wh111).He was one of the famous leaders of that district when Pākehā first arrived on the East Coast. (Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 78;)
  

• raki-mā-rāwhiti

  (noun) north-east.   See also mā, whakarua, -mā-.