parā - rotten
para - blood relation; pollen; sediment; waste material
Pāra, n. 1. Lepidopus caudatus, frost-fish. = hiku, taharangi.
2. A dark-coloured stone used for making implements, found embedded in hire-waiapu.
3. A flake of stone.
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Para (i). 1. n. Sediment, impurity, refuse, waste. Te komai i te wai para hoanga ki waho (S.). (Of water discoloured by silt.) He wai para horo. Para kakariki, a place where parakeets have been scratching in dead leaves, leaving debris scattered about; also used in describing a battlefield covered with slain. Tena, tera te hora na me he para kakariki.
2. Dust, small fragments. Para kai, scraps of food left in a Maori oven.
3. Pimple.
4. a. Affected with pimples.
parā, a. 1. Turned to dust, rotten. He riri ano ta te tawa uho, he riri ano ta te tawa para; ara o te rangatira, ona whakatuaki (T. 145).
2. Turned yellow, sere, discoloured. Ka para nga kai o to mara.
3. Ripe. Kua para nga, karaka.
paranga, n. Excrement.
parahanga, n. Rubbish, litter, scraps. Tahia atu nga parahanga o to tatau kainga.
parapara. 1. n. Filth, excrement, offal, spittle, part of the after-birth.
2. Remains, scraps. Tae atu ki te parapara maunu, pokepokea iho ki nga toto (Pi. 135, 4).
3. A place where certain rites were performed. Katahi ka haere ki runga ki te parapara, karakia ana (Pi. 135, 3). Ahi parapara and umu parapara were ovens connected with certain rites, and the rites themselves, in connection with a corpse, tattooing, the first fish caught by a youth, etc. Ka timata te tangata ki te mahi tuna, katahi ano ia ka mahi i tera mahi, ka ka te ahi parapara, ma nga tane anake e kai. Kai parapara, the offence of eating food products from lands which have been made tapu.
4. a. In expression whitau parapara, flax dyed in mud impregnated with iron. I tukua paraparatia noa iho (It was simply steeped in mud, without having been first soaked in wai hinau).
paraparahanga, n. Fragments, scraps of food, etc.
whakapara. A method of propagating kumaras and potatoes. Seed is planted in standing scrub, which is then cut down. When dry enough this was burned. Later the young shoots were transplanted. (Tu.)
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Para (ii). 1. n. Tuber of Gastrodia cunninghamii or Orthoceras strictum, species of orchid, used as food. To tane i moe, he tane koko para, he tane kari aruhe. Different varieties were known as para kehe (large), para ponaho (small); and para tarare (with a mottled skin).
2. Marattia salicina, a large fern, the root of which was eaten. Katahi au ka kai i te para ki konei, me hua te ingoa o te kainga nei ko Kaipara. Both this and the orchids above were called paratawhiti. ‖ parareka.
3. A species of Cordyline, unidentified which was cultivated as food; also called ti para.
4. A fresh-water fish, similar to kokopu.
5. a. Applied to fern root of good quality.
parapara, n. 1. Heimerliodendron brunonianum (Pisonia brunoniana), the bird-catching tree.
2. Pseudopanax lessonii, a tree.
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Para (iii), n. Bravery, spirit. He tangata whai para tera. Para kore, disheartened, crest-fallen. A hoki para kore ana te taua i te raru i raru ai ratou i taua wahine (W. v, 21). He para kore ra no taua (M. 213).
parapara, n. Talents, gifts, faculties. Kihai i taka te parapara o ona tupuna tuku iho ki a ia.
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Para (iv), n. 1. Blood relative. Para tane and para wahine, relatives through a male and female line respectively. Para tahi, only child.
2. Half of a tree which has been split down the middle. Ka hinga ki te whenua, wahia ana, ka pakaru ko Matatua tetehi para, ko Aotea tetehi (T. 109).
3. A form of address by a child to its father. E para !
pāpara, n. True father; not, like pāpā, including uncles and other senior male relatives. Tona papara no Ngati Tawhaki, i moe i to Ngati Huri wahine.
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Para (v), n. A game in which darts were thrown from one person to another; the darts being para toetoe, para mako, etc., according to the material of which they were made. Parawhakawai, trials of skill in games. He rawe a Kurawha mehemea ka tu ki te parawhakawai.—Te mahi o konei he riri takaro, he para-whakawai. Also, used as a verb, practise the use of weapons. Katahi ka parawhakawai taua tamaiti nei, ka mohio ki te mau patu. ‖ para (iii).
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Para (vi). 1. v.t. Cut down bush, etc., clear. Kei te para a Piwaka i tana waerenga.—Ngati Mahanga para raerae (i.e., with clearings no bigger than their foreheads) (P.).
2. v.i. Shine clearly, come out from the clouds. E whiti, e whiti, e taku ra, e para, e para, e taku ra (M. 72).
paranga, n. Clearing, place cleared for cultivation, etc.
papara, v.i. Flow, of the tide. Ka papara te tai.
pāpara, ad. denoting any slight extension of space. I a Te Ranginga a raro; papara atu, i a Pi; papara atu, i a Rua.
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Para (vii), n. Anthornis melanura, bell-bird. = kopara, komako, titimako.
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parā, a. 1. Turned to dust, rotten. He riri ano ta te tawa uho, he riri ano ta te tawa para; ara o te rangatira, ona whakatuaki (T. 145).
2. Turned yellow, sere, discoloured. Ka para nga kai o to mara.
3. Ripe. Kua para nga, karaka.
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