wa

wa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Walloon.

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wa

1. A traditional proa-style outrigger canoe of the Caroline Islands.

From Thai วา (waa).

wa (plural wa)

1. A Thai unit of length, traditionally comparable to a fathom, and now officially equal to two metres.

From Japanese 和 (wa).

wa (uncountable)

1. In Japanese society, the favouring of a harmonious community over one's personal interests.

wa

1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of where.

• aw

From Dutch wagen.

• IPA^(key): /vɑː/

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wa (plural waens, diminutive waentjie)

1. wagon
2. cart
3. automobile, car

• (car): kar

wa

1. water

• John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

wa

1. (Mpakwithi) grey hair

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189

From French roi.

wa

1. king

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognate with Garo wa (“tooth, tusk”), Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), and Tibetan སོ (so).

wa

1. tooth, tusk

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

• IPA^(key): [wà]

wa

1. final interrogative particle on a yes/no question

wa

1. here

• IPA^(key): [wā]

wa

1. they, them

wa

1. to break

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

wa

1. water

• Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

wa

1. water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): /ʋa/

wa

1. third-person of xwa

wa

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of wꜥ.

wā

1. drink

   ḿ wēnî — I drink water

   ḿ wēnī — I drank water

• Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

• wagam

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognate with Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), and Tibetan སོ (so).

wa

1. tooth

wa

1. water

From dialectal wat (“what”).

• IPA^(key): /va/
  • (Berlin) IPA^(key): [vɐ̠]

wa

1. (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?

• IPA^(key): /vah/, /vhah/
  • IPA^(key): [ʋæh], [ʋhæh] (parts of northern Germany)

wa

1. (colloquial, potentially rude) what, huh (expresses that something was extremely hard to understand acoustically or outlandish in content)

   Synonyms: hä, hüä; was

• Also spelled wat. Especially common in Hamburg and western Holstein, where dialects traditionally drop final /t/ (especially after fricatives).

wa

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of wir.

wa

1. pirogue

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

• IPA^(key): /wá/

wá

1. to come

• rwa

From French roi (“king”).

• IPA^(key): /wa/

wa

1. king

• rèn

• وَ

cognate with Yoruba wá

wa (wá)

1. come

Derived from English what.

• IPA^(key): /wa/

wa

1. what

   Wa yu se?

   What did you say?

• wa at majstro.com

wa

1. Rōmaji transcription of わ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ワ
3. Rōmaji transcription of は
4. Rōmaji transcription of ハ
5. Rōmaji transcription of わっ
6. Rōmaji transcription of ワッ

wa

1. yes

   Antonym: ali

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *va.

• IPA^(key): /ˈva/
• Syllabification: wa

wa

1. second-person plural pronoun; you

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “wy”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• “wa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

wa

1. to hear

wa

1. house

Probably from Moroccan Arabic ايوه (iwa).

wa

1. (Haketia) so (used to introduce a new conversation or topic)

wa

1. to die

wa

1. water

wa (wa⁵／wa⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄨㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哇

wa

1. Nonstandard spelling of wā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of wǎ.
4. 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.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [wɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {wah}

wa

1. canoe, ship, boat
2. vehicle

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

wa

1. to carry

• wahdo
• wahla

From Chinese 花 (MC xwae). Cognate with Vietnamese hoa.

• IPA^(key): /waː¹/, [waː¹ ~ βaː¹]

wa

1. (Mường Bi) flower

   Synonym: pông

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. to fall

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

wa

1. to fall

wa

1. pea, bean

• wei, wǣ

From Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.

• IPA^(key): /wɑː/

wā

1. woe! alas! (expression of grief or anguish)

• wā lā wā

wā

1. woe, ill

• wāwa
• wēa

• Middle English: wa, wo, woo
  • English: woe
  • Scots: wa, wae

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah.

wa

1. ember, glowing coal

wa anim sg (plural niwi, obviative giwi)

1. that

• Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 123

• IPA^(key): /wæ/

wa

1. water

• Panim Talking Dictionary

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. to fall

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

wa

1. water

wa

1. water

• waw

From Old English weall, ultimately from Latin vallum.

wa (plural was)

1. wall

wa (third-person singular simple present was, present participle wain, simple past wad, past participle wad)

1. to wall

wa

1. water

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *va.

• IPA^(key): /ˈva/
• Syllabification: wa

wa

1. second person dual pronoun you two

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1912) “vã”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), volume 2, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 1253

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

wa

1. to fall

wa

1. Romanization of 𒉿 (wa)

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-wa (infinitive kuwa)

1. to be

   Wewe ni nani? ― Who are you?

2. (in positive present) to become

   Inakuwa baridi. ― It is getting cold.

3. (auxiliary) dummy verb that takes tense marking while the main verb takes aspect marking

   nilikuwa ninaandika ― I was writing

4. (with specified location) stem of -wapo, -wako, or -wamo
5. (with na or a form thereof) stem of -wa na

wa

1. A class inflected form of -a.
2. Wa class inflected form of -a.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /wa/ [wɐ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: wa

wa (Baybayin spelling ᜏ)

1. shoo; used to drive away pigs and other animals
2. used to express surprise, dismay, or sometimes a joke

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwaʔ/ [ˈwaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: wa

wâ (Baybayin spelling ᜏ)

1. 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)

1. 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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈwa]

wa

1. I (nominative case)

From Proto-Northern Jê *mba (“liver”) < Proto-Cerrado *mba (“liver”) < Proto-Jê *mba (“liver”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈw̃a]

wa

1. liver

Shortening of the negation particle ua.

• IPA^(key): [ˈwa]

wa

1. sentence-final confirmation particle; isn't it?

   Bira moi rai, wa? ― The rice is already finished, right?

2. 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

wa

1. yes

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

wa

1. to fall

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

wa

1. to fall

• IPA^(key): [wa]

wa

1. this (animate)

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

wa

1. to fall

From Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod.

wa

1. (interrogative) what

From Old Frisian hwā, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ.

• IPA^(key): /vaː/

wa

1. who (interrogative)

   Wa binne jo?

   Who are you?

• wa't

• “wa (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• IPA^(key): /wa/

wa

1. (intransitive) to stay

• IPA^(key): /wa/

wa

1. also

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Cognate with Mokilese war (“canoe”)

wa

1. canoe

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. (intransitive) to fall

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• وَ

Cognate with Igala wa

• IPA^(key): /wā/

wa

1. our (first-person plural possessive pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /wà/

wà

1. to be (have a location in space)

• IPA^(key): /wá/

wá

1. come

   Synonym: bọ̀

• IPA^(key): /wá/

wá

1. to look for

• IPA^(key): /wà/

wà

1. to drive

wa

1. we (exclusive)

wa

1. milk

Cognate to Silt'e [script needed] (-wa:).

wa

1. and

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind

wa

1. rain

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. (intransitive) to fall, to drop

• iwa

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “wa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “wa”