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whakamahana

1. (verb) (-tia) to warm, heat up.

Ka tukuna e rāua te ahi hei whakamahana, hei whakaora i te tinana o tā rāua tungāne (Te Ara 2014). / They sent fire to warm and revive the body of their brother.

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2. (modifier) warming, heating.

Ko te whare o ngā mātua whāngai o Eruera, he whare raupō, wīwī, ko te ahi whakamahana he māhurehure, kei roto i te hōrua i waenga o te kāuta (EM 2002:1). / The house of Eruera's foster parents was of raupō and rushes and the fire for heating was of charcoal embers in a hollow in the middle of the shack.

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3. (noun) heater.

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