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wani

1. (verb) (-a,-hia) to say, defame.


2. (-a,-tia) to comb (the hair).

Ka tīmata te tangi a te wahine nei, ka mutu te tangi, ka horoi, ka wani i a ia. Ka titia te amokura o tōna tāne ki ngā makawe o tōna mātenga (M 2004:160). / The woman then commenced to weep, she stopped, washed herself and composed herself most attractively. She then fixed her husband's long feather plume on her head (M 2004:161).

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