tairiki
Bingham
táiriki
n. evening.
a. being evening.
Sabatier
tairiki
n. evening, late in the day, night.
ex.
- e tairiki: it is evening.
- tairiki matoa: late evening, 7 or 8 o'clock.
- n tairiki: adv. this evening.
- n tairikina: on the evening of...
- n te tairikina: one evening.
- ngke tairiki: last evening.
- ngke e tairiki: when it was evening, when evening came.
vc. ka-tairiki, ka-tairikia: to wait till evening, to do at...