Ariga

Face, cheek. 1. Ariga ora, (lit. 'living face') keepsake, memento, memory, souvenir (of someone). This used to be the name given the moai (stone statues) carved as memories of the dead. 2. Ariga ora is also used in the generic sense of a memento, a keepsake: he mate te matu'a he ato tepoki i te rîu o toona matu'a; he-ariga ora o toona matu'a [when] the father dies, [and] the son sings a riu for his father, this constitutes an ariga ora of his father. Vanaga.

Face, aspect, expression, mien, visage, stature, superficies. T Ma.: aria, to resemble. Hakaariga, to encroach. Churchill.

Ariari, sharp, the edge of a sword. Ta.: ariari, transparence, brightness. Ha.: aliali, white. Churchill.
"ALI, s. Haw., a scar on the face; ali-ali, to be scarred; aali, a small, low place between two larger or higher ones; pu-ali, a place compressed, a neck of land, an isthmus; pu-ale, a ravine.

N. Zeal., pu-are, a hollow, open place.

Tah.: ari, a great deep or hollow; adj. empty, as the stomach; v. to soop out, to hollow; ariari, thin, worn-out.

Sanskr., arus, a wound; îrma, id.; îrina, notch, furrow.

Swed., ärr, scar." (Fornander)
Are

To dig out (e.g. sweet potatoes). Formerly this term only applied to women, speaking of men one said keri, which term is used nowadays for both sexes, e.g. he-keri i te kumara, he digs out sweet potatoes. Vanaga.

To dig, to excavate. Churchill.