Found 15 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.  
  

• whiti

  1. (verb) (-a,-kia,-kina) to shine (of 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;)
  

• Whiti-ānaunau

  (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.  
  

• 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.   (Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 40-42;)
  

• Parinui o Whiti, Te

  (location) White Bluff (northern South Island).  
  

• 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;)
  

• raki-mā-rāwhiti

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