Results for 'patunga'
patunga, n. Victim. E kore e ngaro, ka tangi te umere, ka hinga te patunga. Patunga tapu, sacred offerings; an expression coined by the translators of the Bible. Hei whangai-nga mo nga patunga tapu maori, mo nga rau taewa, kumara, ika, patunga tangata, aha, aha noa iho (T. 77).
Williams Dictionary
Waha ana e ia ki tō rāua whare, ka horoia ōna patunga.
She carried him to their home and bathed his wounds.
Ā taui ana tō ringa i te patunga.
And your hand will be strained by the slaughter.
He rongonui te kōrero mo te patunga o Kae e Tinirau.
The story of Kae’s being killed by Tinirau is famous.
Nā ka haere, ka tākai i ōna patunga, ringihia ki te hinu, ki te waina, ka whakanoho i a ia ki tōna ake kararehe —
And so, he proceeded, and bandaged his wounds, flushed them with oil, and with wine, and sat him on his own beast —
Ko tana patunga pukutanga i a au
his secretly striking me
