wa

wa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Walloon.

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wa

1. A traditional proa-style outrigger canoe of the Caroline Islands.

From Thai วา (waa).

wa (plural wa)

1. A traditional Thai unit of length, approximately two metres.

From Japanese 和 (wa).

wa (uncountable)

1. In Japanese society, the favouring of a harmonious community over one's personal interests.

wa

1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of where.

• aw

From Dutch wagen.

• IPA^(key): /vɑː/

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wa (plural waens, diminutive waentjie)

1. wagon
2. cart
3. automobile, car

• (car): kar

wa

1. water

• John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

wa

1. (Mpakwithi) grey hair

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 189

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognate with Garo wa (“tooth, tusk”), Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), and Tibetan སོ (so).

wa

1. tooth, tusk

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [wà]

wa

1. final interrogative particle on a yes/no question

• IPA^(key): [wā]

wa

1. they, them

wa

1. to break

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

wa

1. water

• Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

wa

1. water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): /ʋa/

wa

1. third-person of xwa

wa

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of wꜥ.

wā

1. drink

   ḿ wēnî — I drink water

   ḿ wēnī — I drank water

• Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

• wagam

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognate with Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), and Tibetan སོ (so).

wa

1. tooth

From dialectal wat (“what”).

• IPA^(key): /va/
  • (Berlin) IPA^(key): [vɐ̠]

wa

1. (colloquial, regional, parts of northern and central Germany) right?; is it?; is it not?

   Synonyms: gell, ne, nicht, nicht wahr, oder

   Wir müssen da lang, wa?

   We need to go this way, don't we?

• IPA^(key): /vah/, /vhah/
  • IPA^(key): [ʋæh], [ʋhæh] (parts of northern Germany)

wa

1. (colloquial, potentially rude) what, huh (expresses that something was extremely hard to understand acoustically or outlandish in content)

   Synonyms: hä, hüä; was

• Also spelled wat. Especially common in Hamburg and western Holstein, where dialects traditionally drop final /t/ (especially after fricatives).

wa

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of wir.

Stemming from the possible Proto-Gbe *bá, Proto-Gbe *vá, Proto-Gbe *wá, or Proto-Gbe *ɓá. Cognates include Fon wá, Saxwe Gbe va, Adja va, Ewe va. Possibly also cognates with Yoruba wá, Isekiri wá, Olukumi wá

• IPA^(key): /wá/

wá

1. to come

From French roi (“king”).

wa

1. king

   Synonym: rwa

• rèn

wa

1. Rōmaji transcription of わ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ワ
3. Rōmaji transcription of は
4. Rōmaji transcription of ハ
5. Rōmaji transcription of わっ
6. Rōmaji transcription of ワッ

wa

1. yes

• ali

From Proto-Slavic *va.

wa

1. you (second-person plural)

wa

1. house

wa (wa⁵ / wa⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄨㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哇.

wa

1. Nonstandard spelling of wā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of wǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of wà.

• 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 Proto-Micronesian *waxa, from Proto-Oceanic *waga, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waŋka, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waŋka. Cognate with Maori waka, Tongan vaka, Hawaiian waʻa.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [wɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {wah}

wa

1. canoe, ship, boat
2. vehicle

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From Chinese 花 (MC hˠua). Cognate with Vietnamese hoa.

• IPA^(key): /waː¹/, [waː¹ ~ βaː¹]

wa

1. (Mường Bi) flower

   Synonym: pông

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. to fall

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

wa

1. to fall

• wei, wǣ

From Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.

• IPA^(key): /wɑː/

wā n

1. woe

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• wā lā wā

• wāwa
• wēa

• Middle English: wa, wo, woo
  • English: woe
  • Scots: wa, wae

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah.

wa

1. ember, glowing coal

wa anim sg (plural niwi, obviative giwi)

1. that

• Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 123

• IPA^(key): /wæ/

wa

1. water

• Panim Talking Dictionary

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. to fall

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

wa

1. water

• waw

From Old English weall, ultimately from Latin vallum.

wa (plural was)

1. wall

wa (third-person singular simple present was, present participle wain, simple past wad, past participle wad)

1. to wall

From Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

wa

1. to fall

wa

1. Romanization of 𒉿 (wa)

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wa

1. A class inflected form of -a.
2. Wa class inflected form of -a.

-wa (infinitive kuwa)

1. to be

You can add the -po, -ko, or -mo locative class markers to the end of any conjugated future tense, past tense, or general relative form of wa to indicate presence at a place, either definite, indefinite, or internal, even if there is already a different object concord. In the present tense, the subject markers can just be added to the beginning of -po, -ko, or -mo directly per their inflection tables.

In the positive general relative of wa, the subject marker is prepended to -li- (different from the past tense "-li-") rather than "wa". In the negative general relative, the -kuwa suffix is dropped.

For conjugation of the verb to have, represented in the infinitive as kuwa na, see -wa na.