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wa
- A traditional proa-style outrigger canoe of the Caroline Islands.
wa (plural wa)
- A Thai unit of length, traditionally comparable to a fathom, and now officially equal to two metres.
wa (uncountable)
- In Japanese society, the favouring of a harmonious community over one's personal interests.
wa
- (stenoscript) Abbreviation of where.
wa (plural waens, diminutive waentjie)
- (car): kar
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- John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)
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- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189
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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognate with Garo wa (“tooth, tusk”), Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), and Tibetan སོ (so).
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- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
wa
- final interrogative particle on a yes/no question
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- to break
- Bassa-English Dictionary
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
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- Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data
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- Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
wa
- third-person of xwa
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wā
- drink
- ḿ wēnî — I drink water
- ḿ wēnī — I drank water
- Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognate with Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), and Tibetan སོ (so).
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From dialectal wat (“what”).
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- (colloquial, regional, parts of northern and central Germany) right?; is it?; is it not?
- Synonyms: ne, oder, gell; see also Thesaurus:nicht wahr
Wir müssen da lang, wa?
- We need to go this way, don't we?
wa
- (colloquial, potentially rude) what, huh (expresses that something was extremely hard to understand acoustically or outlandish in content)
- Also spelled wat. Especially common in Hamburg and western Holstein, where dialects traditionally drop final /t/ (especially after fricatives).
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Stemming from the possible Proto-Gbe *bá, Proto-Gbe *vá, Proto-Gbe *wá, or Proto-Gbe *ɓá. Cognates include Fon wá, Saxwe Gbe va, Adja va, Ewe va. Possibly also cognates with Yoruba wá, Itsekiri wá, Olukumi wá
wá
- to come
wa
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- what
Wa yu se?
- What did you say?
- wa at majstro.com
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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *va.
wa
- second-person plural pronoun; you
wa
- to hear
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Probably from Moroccan Arabic ايوه (iwa).
wa
wa
- to die
wa
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哇
wa
- Nonstandard spelling of wā.
- Nonstandard spelling of wá.
- Nonstandard spelling of wǎ.
- Nonstandard spelling of wà.
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
From Proto-Micronesian *waxa, from Proto-Oceanic *waga, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waŋka, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waŋka. Cognate with Maori waka, Tongan vaka, Hawaiian waʻa.
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- to carry
From Chinese 花 (MC xwae). Cognate with Vietnamese hoa.
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From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
-wa
- to fall
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
wa
- to fall
wa
From Proto-West Germanic *wai, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.
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wā
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah.
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wa anim sg (plural niwi, obviative giwi)
- Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 123
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From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
-wa
- to fall
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
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Inherited from Middle English wal, from Old English weall, from Proto-West Germanic *wall, from Latin vallum.
wa (plural was)
- “wa, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *va.
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- Lorentz, Friedrich (1912) “vã”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch[2] (in German), volume 2, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 1253
From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
wa
- to fall
wa
- Romanization of 𒉿 (wa)
-wa (infinitive kuwa)
- to be
- Wewe ni nani? ― Who are you?
- (in positive present) to become
- Inakuwa baridi. ― It is getting cold.
- (auxiliary) dummy verb that takes tense marking while the main verb takes aspect marking
- nilikuwa ninaandika ― I was writing
- (with specified location) stem of -wapo, -wako, or -wamo
- (with na or a form thereof) stem of -wa na
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Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. |
wa
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /wa/ [wɐ]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: wa
wa (Baybayin spelling ᜏ)
- shoo; used to drive away pigs and other animals
- used to express surprise, dismay, or sometimes a joke
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈwaʔ/ [ˈwaʔ]
- Rhymes: -aʔ
- Syllabification: wa
wâ (Baybayin spelling ᜏ)
- said to make small children and babies laugh (usually said when playing peekaboo)
Influenced by Baybayin character ᜏ (wa).
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /wa/ [wɐ]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: wa
wa (Baybayin spelling ᜏ)
- the name of the Latin-script letter W/w, in the Abakada alphabet
- Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) dobolyu
- “wa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
From Proto-Northern Jê *ba (“I”) < Proto-Cerrado *waj’ (“I”).
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- I (nominative case)
From Proto-Northern Jê *mba (“liver”) < Proto-Cerrado *mba (“liver”) < Proto-Jê *mba (“liver”).
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Shortening of the negation particle ua.
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- sentence-final confirmation particle; isn't it?
- Bira moi rai, wa? ― The rice is already finished, right?
- sentence-final that indicates the speaker knows or should know what is being said
- Ngori tonyodi kolano ua, wa. ― I did not see the king, as you know.
Piring ma riha, wa; ngomi ino misibela romodidi se ngomi.
- We divide the plates (red, as you know) between the two of us.
- (literally, “The plates that are red as you know; we here divided them into two for us.”)
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Torres Strait Creole
wa
From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
wa
- to fall
From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
wa
- to fall
wa
- this (animate)
Unami demonstrative pronouns
Animate | Inanimate | Obviative | |
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Proximal Singular (near the speaker) | wa, wàn, wàni | yu, yun, yuni | yul, yuli |
Distal Singular (far from the speaker) | na, nàn, nàni | në, nën, nëni | |
Proximal plural (near the speaker) | yuki, yuk | yuli, yul | nèl |
Distal plural (far from the speaker) | nèki, nèk | nèl | |
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) distal singular | naka | nike | |
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) distal plural | nèl | nikahke | |
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) proximal singular | waka |
From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
wa
- to fall
From Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod.
wa
- (interrogative) what
From Old Frisian hwā, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ.
wa
- who (interrogative)
- “wa (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
wa
- (intransitive) to stay
Conjugation of wa (action verb) | ||||
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inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tawa | mawa | awa | |
2nd person | nawa | fawa | ||
3rd person | inanimate | iwa | dawa | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nawa, wa | fawa, wa |
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- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics
Cognate with Mokilese war (“canoe”)
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From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
-wa
- (intransitive) to fall
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
wa
- our (first-person plural possessive pronoun)
Yoruba possessive pronouns
wà
- to be (have a location in space)
- ọmọlúàbí, ọmọlúwàbí (“person of good character”)
- wíwà (“existence”)
- ìwà (“character”)
From Proto-Edekiri *wá compare with the Proto-Gbe *bá, Proto-Gbe *vá, Proto-Gbe *wá, or Proto-Gbe *ɓá. Cognates include Fon wá, Gun wá, Adja vá, Saxwe Gbe va, Ewe va from the Gbe languages, in addition to Akan bra, Akan ba, Nkonya ba
wá
wá
- to look for
- wájà (“look for a fight”)
wà
- to drive
- wakọ̀ (“to drive a car”)
wa
- we (exclusive)
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Cognate to Silt'e [script needed] (-wa:).
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- Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind
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From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.
-wa
- (intransitive) to fall, to drop
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “wa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “wa”