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marau

Bingham

mæ/rau

a. somewhat soft.
n. fire in an oven sufficiently consumed for purposes of bakeing.

Sabatier

marau

a. soft, tender, downy, flexible, supple, pliable, manoeuverable, easy to handle, to steer (canoe).
n. softness, suppleness, tenderness, etc.
red. mamarau, mamaraurau: very...
ex. marau nako: going more and more softly, getting less and less, diminishing, etc.
vc. kamaraua, kamarauraua: to make supple, or flexible, to calm, to appease, to mitigate, etc.
vt. kamaraua: to soften, to appease, to loosen.
ka-marauaka: to calm, to appease, etc.

Topics: Food and cooking