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hōpa

1. (loan) (noun) sofa, couch.

…ka tango i te pāhi i meatia nei māna, ka kuhuna ki raro i te hōpa (Popi 1887:108). / …he took the purse which had been passed over to him and placed it under the sofa.

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Hopa

1. (loan) (personal name) Job - book of the Old Testament.

...heoi rā, e hoa mā, nā te Runga Rawa ngā whakahaerenga, e kī ana te kī tapu i a Hopa (TW 31/8/1878:10/438). / ...Well, my friends, as the sacred words from Job tell us, what happens is up to Heaven.

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hopa

1. (loan) (noun) hops, hop plant.

Kei konei ngā māra hopa me ngā kāri hua rākau o ia āhua, o ia āhua, o te pītiti, o te āporo, o te rāhipere, o te tini noa iho o ngā rākau a te Pākehā (TP 11/1900:11). / Here, we have fields of hops and orchards of each kind, of peach, apple, raspberry, of the many trees of the Pākehā.

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whaikīngi

1. (loan) (noun) chess - a game played between two people on a chequered board. Each player has sixteen 'men', a king (kīngi), queen (kuīni), two bishops (pīhopa), two knights (toa), two castles or rooks (pā tūwatawata) and eight pawns (kaihāpai-ō).

Me purei whaikīngi tāua (Ng 1993:54). / You and I should play chess.

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