kuatau
1. (verb) to yearn, long for.
E kuatau ana taku tama ki tana whaiāipo kua haere nei ki Amerika. / My son longs for his sweetheart who has gone to America.
Synonyms: āmene, korou, popono, pūkōnohinohi, kaimomotu, wawata, wara, ohia, mānakonako, warawara, kūata, kuika, kūwata, tōmina, kare, pūkōnohinohi, manako, whakangākau, ōkaka, hihiri, tāmina
2. (noun) yearning, longing.
He kuatau nō Paikea ki te whenua i heke mai ai ia ka kimi nei i Aotearoa nei i te wāhi e mau ariari ana te āhua ki taua Whāngārā-mai-tawhiti (TTT 1/10/1922:10). / It was because of Paikea's yearning for the land from which he had migrated that he sought a place in the North Island that clearly looked like that other Whāngārā-mai-tawhiti (distant Whāngārā).
Synonyms: kāwatawata, korotū, maingo, minamina, tōmina, pūkōnohinohi, mina, mōhukihuki, manako, matenui, hihiri, koroingo
