bawa

See also: Bawa, ɓawa, and baŵa

Garawa

Noun

bawa

  1. older sibling

References

  • Ilana Mushin, A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /báː.wàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [báː.wàː]

Noun

bāwā̀ m (feminine bâiwā, plural bāyī, possessed form bāwàn)

  1. slave

Derived terms


Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bawa, from Classical Malay bawa, which was first attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD with the Old Malay mava in inflected form mamāwa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba, from Proto-Austronesian *baba. Compare to Old Javanese wawa (to bring, to carry).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbawa]
  • Hyphenation: ba‧wa

Verb

bawa (base-imperative bawa, active membawa, ordinary passive dibawa, adversative passive terbawa)

  1. to carry

Conjugation

Conjugation of bawa (meng-, transitive)
Root bawa
Active Involuntary Passive Imperative Jussive
Active membawa terbawa dibawa bawa bawalah
Locative
Causative / Applicative1 membawakan dibawakan bawakan bawakanlah
Causative
Locative
Causative / Applicative1
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

  • bawaan
  • berbawaan
  • berpembawaan
  • membawa
  • membawa-bawa
  • membawakan
  • pembawa
  • pembawaan
  • sepembawa
  • terbawa
  • terbawa-bawa

Further reading


Kavalan

Noun

bawa

  1. boat

Makasar

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baqbaq.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbawa]

Noun

bawa (Lontara spelling ᨅᨓ)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba. First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD.

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /bawə/, /bawa/, /bawaʔ/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /bawa/, /bawə/, /bawaʔ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -a

Verb

bawa (Jawi spelling باوا)

  1. to carry

Further reading


Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba.

Verb

bawa

  1. to carry (as on the back)

Southern Ndebele

Verb

-bawa?

  1. to request, to ask

Inflection

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Swahili

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

bawa (ma class, plural mabawa)

  1. Alternative form of ubawa

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ba‧wa
  • IPA(key): /ˈbawa/, [ˈba.wɐ]

Noun

bawa

  1. diminution; mitigation

Derived terms

  • bawahan
  • magbawa
  • magpabawa
  • makabawa
  • makapagpabawa
  • pagbabawa
  • pagbawahin
  • pagpapabawa
  • papagbawahin
  • walang-bawa

Determiner

bawa

  1. (obsolete) each; every
    Synonyms: bawat, kada

Ternate

Etymology

From Malay bawang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈba.wa]

Noun

bawa

  1. onion

References

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

Waskia

Noun

bawa

  1. brother

References

  • Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages
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