warou
1. (loan) (noun) welcome swallow, Hirundo tahitica - an Australian bird that arrived in Aotearoa/New Zealand in the mid twentieth century. Has a blue-black head and back, reddish-brown throat and chest, and a deeply forked tail.
I korokī ahau, pērā i tā te warou, i tā te kareni; i tangi ahau me te kūkupa; matawaia ana ōku kanohi i te tirohanga whakarunga (PT Ihaia 38:14). / Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward.
