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pa

to surround; enclosed field; private property; i agapó ku-rere-mai-á te kori kiroto ki tooku pa, last night a thief entered my property.
sometimes found instead of pe: pahé = pehé.

paa

sterile, barren (of people); vî'e paa, sterile woman.
a seaweed (fleshy leaves, round shape)
pork crackling (so called because of its resemblance with paa seaweed above).

paahia

sweat, perspiration; hana ké, ku-topa-á te paahia, how hot, I'm drenched in sweat! (lit.: sweat runs).

paake

to save, to put aside, to reserve; mostly used of food: kai paake , in a distribution, food reserved for some priviledged persons; e-kai-paake koe. keep some food aside (for me). The word paake is also used in conjunction with ai (to copulate) or hua-ai (procreation): ai paake is said of married persons with illegitimate children (-poki ai paake) besides their legitimate ones.

pae

to end, to come to an end; ku-pae-á taaku kai, I have no more food; pae-atu, to leave en masse; ku-pae-atu-á tagata ki Hangaroa tai. everybody has left for Hangaroa Bay.
to start, to break out (of wars, fights: taûa); ku-pae-á te taûa, the fight, the war, has started.
dressed, edged stones anciently used to enclose a permanent umu; paepae wall of undressed stones built as protection against the wind; also any other protection.

pa'e

of a boat, to deviate, to drift, to stray under the effects of currents or winds; ku-pa'e-á te vaka i te tokerau, the wind has made the boat deviate from its course.

paega

dressed stones forming the foundations of the ancient houses or of the walls of the monumental ahus; hare paega, house with stone foundations; paega-ahu, ahu wall.
household, people who live in a hare paega.
to lay stones on the bottom and against the sides of a hole: he-paega i te rua.

paerega

poor; needy persons, without protection, such as orphans (poki matu'a kore).

pagaha'a

heavy; kai pagaha'a, heavy food, hard to digest.
name of the design that used to be tattooed on the cheeks.

pahaká

person unlucky at fishing: tagata pahaká.

pahera

lower part of gourd; pahera ipu kaha, shell of gourd (pakahera).

pahoa

piece, bit, chunk: pahoa kahi. a chunk of tuna.

pahono

to answer rebelliously (upon receiving an order), to contradict.

pahu uma

coffin; in modern usage, any sort of jar.

pahupahu

to dig a hole.

pahure

to peel off (of skin), injury or bruise.

paiga

side, party, faction; part or portion of somehing.

paihi

to be torn: ku-paihi-á te kahu o te poki, the child's dress is torn.

paína

human likeness, large doll (made in ancient times).

paka

dry; to become dry (of things); pakapaka, to dry out. Te paka is also the name of the moss-covered areas, between the small lakes of volcano Rano Kau, through which one can pass without getting one's feet wet..
to go, to depart; he-paka-mai, to come; he-oho, he-paka, they go away.
to become calm (of the sea): ku-paka-á te tai.

pakahera

skull, shell, cranium; pakahera puoko tagata, human skull; pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish.

pakakina

to crash into, to collide with, to explode; explosion.
to flow, to run (of a liquid): he-pakakina te ranu, her waters broke.
to lash (one's face, of the wind).

pakako

to cluck (of hen when laying eggs)..

paka-ohio

mean, stingy ( also kaikino).

pakapakakina

to explode repeatedly (see pakakina).

pakeke

clink, noise of stones colliding, any similar sound; to tinkle, to chink.
kind, kindly, good-natured; tagata pakeke ki te iramuta, persons well-disposed towards towards their fellow human beings.

pakeopá

name of a particular stone moai, which had signs carved on its back (three rona and two ua). It is no longer on the island. Some authors wrongly claimed that this was a generic word for statues or the name of a certain type of statues, as, nowadays, the term pakeopá is commonly used of statuettes of stone or of wood with carved decorations on their backs.

pakia

seal (zool.). Haga pakía, a small cove near Hangaroa.

pakipaki

area at the sides of the entrance to a house.
to take (food) from a feast, or out of the oven, to someone else's house: he-pakipaki i te kai.

pakiroki

in war times, person who comes for help or for protection to avoid getting killed; to seek asylum, refuge; refugee.
pauper who comes to someone else's house, hoping to be invited to eat.
persona who lives in extreme poverty, pauper, destitute; also said of famished animals in poor condition.

paki'u

verb which seems to have been used only in negative connotation, referring to selfish people who refuse to help, or to cooperate: ekó paki'u-atu au ki a koe. I will not help you, or: I won't give you anything.

pakoga

lower part, deep place: i raro i te pakoga, below.

pako'o

to become dislocated (of bone).
to break loose, to become undone (of something that was linked, connected); to release, to let go of, also used figuratively: ka-pako'o-mai i te kî out with it, say frankly what you wanted to tell me.
to lose (money gambling): ana pako'o te ohio e-tahi kope, ku-geo-á, ina ekó mihaore, when one loses money and is cleaned out, he has no luck at all.

pakú

to move things about when searching for something: he-aha te me'e aau e-pakú-mai ena? what are you looking for here?

pakúkú

to thrash about, like a chicken or a lobster just caught.

pakupaku

to come down in a straigth line, like the rays of the sun; this word occurs in the text of a kaikai; "hiro ragi pakupaku" , which seems to mean: "sun rays coming straight down"; to be stiff like a corpse (pâpaku).

paoa

war club.
man armed with a war club; the guardians of the tribe holding the term of office (ao).
to splint a broken limb.

paoga

back of the knee.

paohu

a fish. Paohu poreko so is called a person who is wont to slip away from home or work, being slippery like the paohu fish.

papa

underground rock; motionless; rocky sea bottom; large flat stone; figuratively: tagata papa important man, author of great works.

wooden plank currently used much like a surf-board in the sport called garu ; it was formerly called papa gaatu mo te garu, because it was made dry totora leaves woven into the shape of a plank.

to line up things side by side on a flat surface, for instance, to line up fish on top of a flat stone.

pá-pá

to crack: i te raá he-pá-pá te gaatu, the totora (which has dried) has cracked in the sun; to weaken, to become frail: pá-pá-á te turi , his knees are weak (of old people).

papae

shield: te papae mo puru te hakari o horea-mai hai matá, the shield is for protecting the body, to prevent being wounded by obsidian [weapons].

papaga

order (in which things or persons are arranged); substantive form of the verb papa.

papagaha'a

to feel sleepy, to have a feeling of heaviness, to start dozing (reduplication of pagaha'a).

papaki

to tie the leaves of a plant and cover them with soil: he-papaki i te kumara, i te uhi.

papaki

he papaki i te vânaga, to blame someone falsely, and by exaggerations (literally: to heap words like soil when covering a plant); to make up parts of a tale, to add some details out of other tales.

papaki

a marine mollusc (Physalia).

papakina

name of the north wind which usually blows very strongly.

papakona

lap: ku-noho-á te poki i ruga i te papakona o toona matu'a, the child is sitting on its mother's lap.

pâpaku

corpse.
emaciated, very thin.

pâpaku

tai pápaku, lowest tide.

papare

the small door of the ancient hare paega; it was made of totora reeds in the shape of a curtain, and was opened by rolling it up; it was left hanging down to close the entrance: he-viri te papare .

papatoa

sugarcane plantation.

para

spleen.
ripe; to ripen: maîka para, ripe bananas; para rautí said of ripe bananas the peel of which has stay green.
to start rotting (of wood and other materials): ku-para-á te miro, the wood has rotted.
a moss found in abundance in the watery bottom of Rano Kau, which has very long roots laden with water. Fishermen used to take quantities of them, wrapped in banana leaves, to alleviate their thirst.

parai

a seaweed which grows on the rocks of the coast.

pararaha

plane, flat surface; ko te pararaha o te rima, palm of the hand; ko te pararaha o te va'e, sole of the feet.

parare

language error or mistake, lapsus: ^__O te aha e-kata-mai ena koe ki a au ? ^__O te parare o to'ou vânaga. ^__Why are you laughing at me? ^__Because of the mistakes you make when speaking.
a wooden figurine representing a human head with arms.

pare

parehaoga

food prepared in the earth oven (umu parehaoga) for a feast or for people whose help is needed for some work or for organizing a feast.

parehe

piece, bit; to fall, break into pieces.

parei

dirty, to have a dirty face and eyes, someone who gets up without washing.

parera

sea bottom.

pari

rough (of the sea); waves of a rough sea.

parigi

to leak (out of a container); to bleed from a wound: he parigi te toto.

paroko

very small, dark fish found in the small pools of water between the rocks of the coast; he-paroparoko, to appear in great numbers.

paru

to crush: he-paru i te kumara, he-hoa ki te vai, to crush sweet potatoes and throw them in water to cook them.
to cover with paint or powder: he-paru te ariga, to powder one's face with coloured earth (ki'ea) .
to recommend, to praise someone: ku-paru-a au i a koe ki te tagata hônui, I recommended you to the authorities (lit.: the important people).

patara

to untie, to undo.

pata'uta'u

to recite the verses of a poem, of a song, like the text of a kaikai; recitation.

patehe

to prune; to castrate: he-patehe i te hua.

patirí

thunder: he-hetu te patiri, thunder is striking.

pató

clover.

patu

to remove, to take off (a garment): he patu i te kahu.
to leave (a place) behind (when moving on): He-oho e rua tagata, he-turu ki Akahaga; he-tu'u ki a Hei Para, he-patu-mai, he-tu'u ki a Pe'i, he-patu-mai Pe'i. . Two men went down to Akahanga; they arrived at Hei Para and left it behind; having arrives at Pe'i they left it behind.
to round up people in a place; to dismiss people from a place: ka-patu-atu i te mahigo hakaneku-atu, dismiss these people from here so the withdraw over there. (N.B. there is no entry for hakaneku; perhaps a misprint for hakaneke).
to push with the feet: he patu hai va'e.

patuki

small fish, a little bigger than the paroko. They abound in the small pools of the coast and are used as bait for eel-fishing.

pau

to run out (food, water): ekó pau te kai, te vai, is said when there is an abundance of food or water, and there is no fear of running out. Puna pau, a small natural well near the quarry where the "hats" (pukao) were made; it was so called because only a little water could be drawn from it every day and it ran dry very soon.
va'e pau, clubfoot.

paupau

curved; also pau in the expression va'e pau, clubfoot.
to feel satiated, to have eaten one's fill; ekó ana-pava-mai, is said of someone who shows himself offended, angry, and withdraws resentfully.

pava

tranquillity, peace, quiet; peaceful, serene; ku-pava-á te kuhane, the soul is in peace; te pava mo korua ka-noho nei, peace be with you; kona pava, peaceful place.