werawera
1. (verb) to be warm, perspiring.
Ko waenganui o te ao e werawera ana, ko te rā kei runga rawa o te rangi e haere ana i te roa o te tau (TWMNT 28/5/1873:58). / The equatorial regions of the world are hot and the sun moves right above in the sky for most of the year.
Synonyms: tōhau
2. (noun) perspiration, sweat, warmth.
(Te Pihinga Study Guide (Ed. 1): 31;)
Mehemea e kore e horoia atu te werawera o te kiri, me te paru hoki e whakakī ana i ngā putaputa ririki o te kiri, koia ka kino ai ka mamae, kātahi ka puku, ka pā haere taua mate ki ia tangata, ki ia tangata (TWMNT 18/6/1873:65). / If the perspiration and the dirt filling the pores of the skin is not washed away then the pain will be awful and the swelling and that disease will strike each person.
Me heke ngā werawera o Tāne-te-wānanga e ea ai ngā werawera o Tāne-tahua-roa
1. Do not waste the efforts of the cooks who make sure the participants or students of a wānanga (worlshop) are well fed for the duration of the kaupapa.
The student of a wānanga must exert great effort to repay the effort of the culinarian. /
