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mānia - plains

mania - slippery; smooth; to slide

Mānia, n. 1. Plain country. I haere mai ma te mania o Kaingaroa (T. 149).

2. Carex lucida, a sedge plant, niggerhead. Ka mau te ringa o te kuia ra ki te pu mania, ka unuhia ake.

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Mania. 1. a. Slippery.

2. Sliding readily over another object. ‖ 5, below.

3. Soft, smooth, of hair. Tou uru mania.

4. Feeling a jarring sensation, set on edge. He hanga mania noa te taringa (M. 180). Ka mania nga niho.

5. n. Thin slabs of sandstone set in a wooden frame, used as a saw for cutting greenstone. ‖ 2, above.

6. Hair, lock of hair. Mania takai, ringlets. ‖ 3. above.

7. Grating, creaking sound, as of trees moving in the wind. Tu te mania (P. 94, where Grey says an insect).

8. Hoplodactylus pacificus, brown gecko, a lizard. = teretere, pāpā.

9. Bone pin for fastening a cloak. = au.

10. v.i. Slip, slide. Hapaipai te kiato mua, ka mania, ka paheke (M. 265). Me he punga waka te tatutanga ki te whenua, ka mania, ka paheke (Used of an anchor dragging) (M. 284).

whakamania, v.t. Address abusively or contemptuously, scold. Ko te whakamania, he whakamanioro, he korero kino ki te aroaro tonu o te tangata ki te kanohi tonu. ‖ mania, 4, 7.

māniania, a. Noisy. ‖ mania, 4, 7.

Williams Dictionary

I mania a Pani.
Pani slipped.
Simple sentences: past tense - i

I ngā hōtoke kei ngā raorao, kei ngā mānia, ā, i ngā raumati kei ngā maunga.
In the winter they were on the foothills and on the plains, and in the summer they were in the mountains.
Simple sentences: past tense - i

I te aha koutou ko Mānia, ko Himiona i roto rā?
What were you and Mānia and Himiona up to in there?

He mānia a Kaingaroa.
Kaingaroa is a plain.

Inā ka takoto ngā mānia o Waikato, i waenganui tonu, me te mea nei i āta whakatūria ōna pukepuke hei parepare.
Thus the plains of Waikato lie right in between, as though the hills had been deliberately placed as fortifications.

I ōna wā he iwi manene; i ngā hōtoke kei ngā raorao, kei ngā mānia, ā, i ngā raumati Kei ngā maunga.
In those days they were a nomadic tribe; in the winter, [they] were in the foothills and on the plains, and in the summer [they] were on the mountains.

Inā ka takoto ngā mānia o Waikato, i waenganui tonu, me te mea nei i āta whakatūria ōna pukepuke hei parepare
Thus the plains of Waikato lie right in between, (so that it looks) as though the hills had been deliberately placed as fortifications

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