awa

awa

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

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

awa

1. man

• awakwer
• awanem
• awapihun
• awate

• “awa” in Carl Harrison, Carole Harrison, Dicionário Guajajára-Português, Associação Internacional de Linguística SIL - Brasil, 2013.

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/

• (file)

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

awa

1. (Banawá) wood

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

awa

1. Rōmaji transcription of あわ

From Japanese.

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

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. here!
   • c. 1301-1350, Kazania świętokrzyskie‎, 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-]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Middle Polish: awa

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (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/ [ˈʔa.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 (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