xwa

• IPA^(key): [xʷā]

xwa

1. (anatomy) hand

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

From Proto-Northern Jê *ĵwa (“tooth”) < Proto-Cerrado *jwa (“tooth”) < Proto-Jê *jô (“tooth”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʋa/

xwa

1. tooth

   Wa apu ixwa gyj.

   I grind my teeth.

   Rop wa japrãr to mõ.

   The dog is going along showing its teeth.

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic خوا, from Arabic خوى.

xwa (Tifinagh spelling ⵅⵡⴰ)

1. (transitive) to empty, to evacuate
2. (transitive) to abandon, to leave

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Causative: sexwa (“to dispel, to evict”)
  • Verbal noun: asexwi
• řexwa (“emptiness”)
• ixwa (“empty”)