rawe

Cognate with Samoan lave. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rawe (passive rawea)

1. to wrap around, to coil around (of clothing, cords, ropes etc.)

   Synonyms: whiwhi, pokai, takai

rawe

1. tight

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rawe

1. suitable, appropriate, becoming
2. clever
3. excellent

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “rawe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 387
• “rawe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Old English hrēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-.

• raw, rau, rauȝ, raugh, rae, ra, rowe

• IPA^(key): /rau̯/

rawe (superlative rawest)

2. raw (not subject to cooking or heating)
3. raw, unprocessed, unfiltered (not subject to processing or refinement)
4. (usually referring to one's skin) wounded, hurt, punctured
5. (usually referring to one's bodily parts) vulnerable, visible, bare
6. (figurative) young, primitive, rough, simple
7. (rare) unripened, immature

• English: raw
• Scots: raw

• “rau(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-07.

rawe

1. A painful or difficult bodily presence.
2. (rare) unprocessed fabric
3. (rare) The state of being unripe or immature.

• “raue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-07.

rawe

1. Alternative form of rewe (“row”)