pārara

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See also: parara, parará, and pararà

Latvian

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Verb

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pārara

  1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of pārart

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Central Pacific *paa-rara (“to toast, to expose to direct heat” – Tahitian pārara “to roast meats, to soften banana leaves over a open flame”) related to Proto-Polynesian *rara from Proto-Oceanic *raraŋ (compare with Fijian dandang (“to warm up in front of a fire”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daŋdaŋ (compare with Malay dandang “boiler”, Tagalog dangdang and darang (“to roast on hot coals”)[1][2]

Verb

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pārara

  1. to bask under the sun, to sunbathe
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References

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  1. ^ Compare in “paa-rara” and “rara.1” in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online (2011). Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors.
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 294

Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pārara”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 307
  • “pārara” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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