Vocab Flashcards
(300 cards)
Karanga
Ceremonial welcome call
To call out
(-hia, -tia)
Pōwhiri
Welcome ceremony
To invite (-a, -tia)
Tangi
To cry; funeral; grief
(-hia)
Taonga
Valued objects
Maunga
Mountain
Ngaki (tv) 🌱🏞️
(-a, -na) To clear weeds, cultivate
A clearing
Ngaro (tv)
(-mia) to be hidden, out of sight, covered, disappeared, absent
(Stat) be missing, lost, consumed, gone, extinct
Ngata 🐌
Snail
Ngākau
Heart, soul
Mātanga (adj)
sophisticated, experienced, skilled
experienced person, expert, specialist, consultant, professional, practitioner, old hand, analyst
Ngārara
Insects, reptiles
Tīrangi
Unsettled
Kānga
Corn, maize
burning
Whai
To have, to possess; precedes nouns to form compound words.
To follow
(-a)
Whatitiri 🌩️👂🙉
Thunder
Whana
To kick (-ia)
To rebel
Whāriki
(-hia, -tia) to cover with a mat, spread out on the ground
Floor mat
Whāwhā (iv) 🤲
To feel (-ria, -tia)
To handle (-tia)
Whakahē
To disagree, find fault
(-ngia, -tia)
Āka (n)
Affection
Toto
Blood
Tōtō (n) 🌱🌾🌿
Weeds
Take
To originate
(-a)
reason, purpose, cause, origin, root, stump, source, beginning
topic, subject, matter, issue, concern
Patu
To beat up, assault, kill
(-a)