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awa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Awadhi.

From Hawaiian 'awa.

awa (uncountable)

1. Kava, specifically Piper methysticum.

   • 1874, Charles Nordhoff, Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands‎^[2], New York: Harper & Brothers, page 92:

     The manner of preparing awa is peculiarly disgusting. The root is chewed by women, and the spit out well-chewed mouthfuls into a calabash.

   • 1900, Oliver P. Emerson, “The Awa Habit of the Hawaiians”, in All about Hawaii: The Recognized Book of Authentic Information on Hawaii, Combined with Thrum's Hawaiian Annual and Standard Guide‎^[3], Honolulu: Honolulu Gazette Co., page 131:

     The awa plant is a species of pepper, the piper methysticum of the botanist, and is described as having fleshy stems from two to three feet high.

   • 1911 October 26, Daniel Logan, editor, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist‎^[4], volume 8, Honolulu, Hawaii, page 356:

     The majority say that there is little awa growing wild on Government lands, the bulk of that at present in the market being obtained from cultivated patches.

2. An intoxicating drink made from the kava plant, typically the root.

   • 1900, Oliver P. Emerson, “The Awa Habit of the Hawaiians”, in All about Hawaii: The Recognized Book of Authentic Information on Hawaii, Combined with Thrum's Hawaiian Annual and Standard Guide‎^[5], Honolulu: Honolulu Gazette Co., page 134:

     The Hawaiian gods were supposed to be particularly addicted to the use of awa. Songs were sung in praise of the drink.

   • 1910, S. M. Kanakau, “Ancient Hawaiian Religious Beliefs and Ceremonies”, in Thros. G. Thrum, editor, The Hawaiian Annual for 1911‎^[6], Honolulu: Thros. G. Thrum, page 150:

     When the prayer had finished, the awa was drunk and the sacred feast then began.

From Portuguese água.

awa

1. water

• Philippe Maurer, L'angolar: un créole afro-portugais parlé à São Tomé (1995, →ISBN: "awa [HH] eau (ptg. agua). awa boka bave. awa ngairu ruisseau, fleuve. awa ȏngȇ n'na ome sperme. awa rago ~ rogo eau de noix de coco. awa wȇ larme."

• IPA^(key): /awa/

awa (Bengali script আৱা)

1. father

• baba
• wa•

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

• Hyphenation: a‧wa

Unknown

awa

1. a wild sea dwelling milkfish (Chanos chanos); as opposed to milkfish raised in aquaculture (see usage notes)
2. the Hawaiian ladyfish (Elops hawaiensis)

• Awa, alternatively named inahan sa bangus, mainly refers to the wild milkfish while bangus refer mostly to the cultivated milkfish.

Short for tan-awa

awa

1. look!

• IPA^(key): /a.wa/

awa

1. and (used only in numerical expressions such as awa chaffa)

• Mobilian: awa

Borrowed from English hour.

awa

1. hour

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.

• IPA^(key): /aˈwa/, [aˈʷa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧wa

awa

1. man

• Carl Harrison, Carole Harrison (2013) “awa”, in Dicionário Guajajára-Português‎^[7] (overall work in Portuguese), Anápolis: SIL Brasil, page 16, column 1

From Proto-Gbe *-bá or Proto-Gbe *-bɔ́, from the older Proto-Volta-Niger *ɔ́-bɔ́. Cognate with Fon awà (“arm”), Fon abǎ (“arm”), Saxwe Gbe abɔ́ (“arm”), Adja abɔ (“arm”), Adja aba (“arm”), Ayizo awa (“forearm”), Ayizo aba (“arm”), Ewe abɔ (“arm”).

• IPA^(key): /ā.wà/

awà (plural awà lɛ́ or awà lẹ́)

1. wing
2. arm

Borrowed from English hour.

• IPA^(key): /ʔá.wàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔá.wàː]
• Hyphenation: a‧wa

awā̀ f (plural awōyī, possessed form awàr̃)

1. hour

   Synonym: sa'a

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.wa/, [ˈɐ.ʋə]

From Proto-Polynesian *awa (“channel, opening in a reef”).

awa

1. channel, passage
2. port, harbor, cove

• awāwa

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

awa

1. milkfish

áwà

1. compassion, mercy, pity

Inherited from Proto-Arawa *aga.

awa

1. (Banawá) wood

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

awa

1. Rōmaji transcription of あわ

awa

1. Romanization of ꦲꦮ

From Japanese [Term?].

awa

1. drinkware; cup; glass

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *awa (“channel, opening in a reef”).

Other Polynesian languages generally retain the Proto-Polynesian meaning (e.g. Hawaiian awa); the word was adapted to mean "river" in Māori because the large rivers of New Zealand were more similar to channels than to the small streams (Proto-Polynesian *waitafe) the Māori knew before settling New Zealand.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /a.wa/, [ɐ.wɐ]

awa

1. river, creek, stream

From English hour, from Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [ɑwɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /ɰæwæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {hawah}

awa (construct form awaan)

1. (alienable) an hour
2. (alienable) a clock
3. (alienable) time

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

awa

1. water

• Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction (1995, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.wa/
• Rhymes: -awa
• Hyphenation: a‧wa

Inherited from Old Tupi aba.^[1]

awa (absolute tawa, R1 rawa, R2 sawa)

1. contour feather; plumage

   Coordinate term: pepú (“flight feather”)

2. (broadly) any feather
3. fur
4. body hair
5. (rare) headhair

awa (2nd class)

1. to be feathery
2. to be hairy

Inherited from Old Tupi 'aba.^[1]

awa

1. headhair

Inherited from Old Tupi oba.^[1]

awa (absolute awa, R1 rawa, R2 sawa)

1. leaf

From English our.

awá

1. our

āwa

1. always, ever, forever

Univerbation of a +‎ wa.^[1] First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /a(ː)va/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ava/, /ɒva/

awa

1. (attested in Lesser Poland) here!

   • c. 1301-1350, Kazania świętokrzyskie‎^[8], Miechów, page dv 4:

     Aua tih slov [wykład z języ]ka lacinskego v polsky iesc taky

     [Awa tych słow [wykład z języ]ka łacińskiego w polski jeść taki]

• Middle Polish: awa

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “awa”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

From Portuguese água and Spanish agua and Kabuverdianu agu.

The Portuguese word comes from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

awa

1. water

• Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction (1995, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /aˈwa/

awa anim sg (animate plural ôki, inanimate singular ôma, inanimate plural ôhi, Syllabics ᐊᐊᐧ)

1. (preceding a noun) this

   nipâw awa atim ― this dog is sleeping

2. (following a noun) this is

   atim awa ― this is a dog

• ana (“that”)
• nâha (“that (over there)”)

• awa in Plains Cree Online Dictionary

Borrowed from English hour, from Middle English houre, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

• IPA^(key): /ɐwɐ/

awa

1. hour

Inherited from Old Polish awa. By surface analysis, univerbation of a +‎ wa.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/, /ˈɒ.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Syllabification: a‧wa

awa

1. (Middle Polish) expresses uncertainty; maybe, perhaps [16th c]^[2]
2. (Middle Polish) interrogative particle: introduces a yes-no question [17th–18th c.]^[3][4]

From Middle English awey, from Old English onweġ.

• IPA^(key): /əˈwɑː/

awa (not comparable)

1. away

awa (comparative mair awa, superlative maist awa)

1. absent, gone, distant

awa f (plural awas)

1. Eye dialect spelling of agua (“water”).

• aua — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Said to be from Sanskrit आवह् (āvah, “favor”).^[1]

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔawaʔ/ [ˈʔaː.wɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -awaʔ
• Syllabification: a‧wa

awà (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏ)

1. compassion; mercy; pity

   Synonyms: habag, pagkahabag, hambal, lunos

• “awa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[9] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.wa]

awa

1. rainbow

Possibly the same as the previous etymology, as a semantic extension.

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.wa]

awa

1. sign, mark

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

awa

1. sea

• IPA^(key): [awa]

awa (possessed awadü or ewadü)

1. (Brazil) Alternative form of öwa (“cemetery”)

• ìn-a (Ekiti)

Cognate with Igala àwa

• IPA^(key): /à.wā/

àwa

1. we (emphatic first-person plural personal pronoun)

awa

1. accusative singular of aw