kua

kua

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

kua

1. absolutive singular of ku

Compare Cebuano and Tagalog kuha.

• Hyphenation: ku‧a
• IPA^(key): /kuˈʔa/

kùa

1. to get; to take; to seize; to acquire; to obtain
2. to hire; to employ
3. to major (in a course)
4. to extract; to derived from
5. to find; to discovery

   Synonyms: dukay, hanap

6. (by extension) to grab

   Synonym: takma

kua

1. to eat.

kua

1. snake

kua

1. bee

• Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎, Santa Barbara: University of California

kua

1. (anatomy) back
2. burden

kua

1. to chop

Hinde (1904) records kukua (or kuite) as equivalents of English die in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba kugua as its equivalent.[1]

• IPA^(key): /kua/

kua (infinitive gũkua)

1. to die[2]
2. to break into pieces, to fall into pieces[2]

• (to die): gũtũũra

(Proverbs)

• mũici na mũndũ mũka atigaga kĩeha akua

(Nouns)

• gĩkuũ class 7
• mũkuũ class 1

(Adjectives)

• -kuũ

• (to break into pieces): gwatũka

kua

1. Nonstandard spelling of kuā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of kuǎ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kuà.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Middle High German kuo, from Old High German kuo, from Proto-Germanic *kūz (“cow”). Cognate with German Kuh, English cow.

kua f

1. cow

• “kua” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• kuen

kua m or f

1. definite feminine singular of ku

From Old Norse kúga. Akin to English cow.

• kue

• IPA^(key): /²kʉːɑ/

kua (present tense kuar, past tense kua, past participle kua, passive infinitive kuast, present participle kuande, imperative kua/ku)

1. to cow, subdue

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʉːɑ/

kua f

1. definite singular of ku

• “kua” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Portuguese qual and Spanish cual.

kua

1. which

kua

1. water

• Roger Blench, Mark Post, (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011)

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-kua (infinitive kukua)

1. to grow (to become bigger)