wara
1. (verb) (-hia,-ngia) to desire, hanker after, long for, yearn for, crave for, addicted.
Kei te wara au ki te wai, hei whakamākūkū i taku korokoro (PK 2008:1057). / I need water to wet my throat.
Synonyms: tameme, wawata, warawara, konau, muri aroha, ingo, kōnohi, āwhitu, ohia, murimuri aroha, ingoingo, hōkaka, kare, kuatau, pūkōnohinohi, manako, whakangākau, ōkaka, hihiri, tāmina, āmene, korou, popono, pūkōnohinohi, mānakonako, kaimomotu, kūata, kuika, kūwata, tōmina
2. (verb) to make an indistinct sound, murmur, rustle, swish.
Whakarongo ki te tai e wara haere (G 1853:331). / Listen to the sea swishing.
Synonyms: hīrearea, warowaro, wawara, wawaro, hāmumumumu
wāra
1. (noun) drain.
E hia tau kē nei rātou e kaha ana te pukumahi ki te keri wāra hei whakamaroke i ngā whenua reporepo, ururua hoki, me te whakakīkī haere anō i ngā whāruarua i mahue mai (TTR 1996:46). / They worked energetically for many years draining the swampy and scrub-covered land and filling the hollows.
wara whakapōauau
1. (noun) drug addiction.
Kei te kaha raru tonu te iwi Māori i te kore mahi, i te mau herehere, i te wara waipiro, i te wara whakapōauau me te whakarekereke. / The Māori people are still greatly troubled with unemployment, imprisonment, alcohol addiction, drug addiction and violence.
2. (noun) alcohol addiction, alcoholism.
Kāore e kore kua riro ētahi o rātou i te wara waipiro. / No doubt some of them have succumbed to alcohol addiction.
2. (loan) (noun) gambling addiction.
Kua riro ētahi o rātou i taua mate, arā, i te wara petipeti. / Some of them have succumbed to that disease, that is gambling addiction.
