dawa

From Swahili dawa (“medicine”).

dawa (plural dawas)

1. (East Africa) A medicine, particularly a native one or one used by witch doctors.
2. (Kenya) A cocktail made with vodka, honey, and lime juice.

• Awad, WADA, Wada, adaw

• Hyphenation: da‧wa
• IPA^(key): /ˈdawaʔ/

dawà

1. even if; even so; even though; although

   Synonym: maski

• Hyphenation: da‧wa
• IPA^(key): /ˈdawa/, [ˈd̪a.wʌ]

dawa

1. millet

   Synonym: kabog

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

dāwā̀ f (plural dāwōyī, possessed form dāwàr̃)

1. sorghum

• IPA^(key): /dá.wà/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [də́.wə̀]

dawà m (possessed form dawàn)

1. the bush, the forest

• mugun dawa

dawa m (plural dabee f)

1. hand, arm
2. instrument, custom, measures

• Mous, Maarten; Qorro, Martha; Kießling, Roland (2002) Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume 18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 19

From Old Javanese dawa.

dawa

1. Romanization of ꦢꦮ (“long”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈdawa]

dawa

1. third-person singular present of dawaś

dawa

1. long

From Proto-Austronesian *zawa. Compare Hiligaynon dawa, Cebuano dawa, Tagalog dawa, Waray-Waray dawa, and Tausug dawa.

dawa

1. foxtail millet grain

dawa

1. cloth

dawa

1. lawsuit; a dispute carried before a court or authority.

• “Dawa” in Jonathan Rigg, A Dictionary of the Sunda language (1862), page 103.

From Arabic دَوَاء‎ (dawāʾ).

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dawa (n class, plural dawa) or dawa (ma class, plural madawa)

1. medicine

In its strictest sense, this word means "medicine", but is used generally for anything that improves or protects the condition of another thing; for example dawa ya viatu (“dawa of the shoes”) means "shoe polish".

• dawa ya mapenzi (“love potion”)
• dawa ya meno (“toothpaste”)
• dawa ya mswaki (“toothpaste”)
• dawa ya viatu (“shoe polish”)
• dawa ya wadudu (“insecticide”)

• Baldi, Sergio (2020-11-30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 109 Nr. 969

From Proto-Austronesian *zawa. Compare Hiligaynon dawa, Cebuano dawa, Puyuma dawa, Waray-Waray dawa, and Tausug dawa. Theorized also to be from Sanskrit यव (yava, “barley; grain; cereal”).

• Hyphenation: da‧wa
• IPA^(key): /ˈdawaʔ/, [ˈda.wɐʔ]

dawà

1. millet (Panicum miliaceum)

• Hyphenation: da‧wa
• IPA^(key): /daˈwaʔ/, [dɐˈwaʔ]

dawâ

1. (obsolete) the act of getting something from a cave

From Proto-Austronesian *zawa.

dawa

1. millet

dawa

1. Soft mutation of tawa.

dawa

1. everything

From Hausa dāwā̀.

• IPA^(key): /dá.wà/

dáwà

1. sorghum

   Synonyms: jéró, ọkà bàbà