puwa

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: pu‧wa

Adjective

puwa

  1. red; having red as its color

Noun

puwa

  1. the color red
  2. the egg yolk

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:puwa.

Martuthunira

Etymology

From Proto-Ngayarda *puka, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *puka.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /puwa/

Adjective

puwa

  1. (nominal) rotten

References
  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.
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