Tuwa

See also: Tuwą

English

Proper noun

Tuwa

1. Alternative form of Tuva
   • 1989 [1988], Karl Jettmar, “The art of the Steppes”, in The History of Art‎^[1], Blitz Editions, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:

     A royal grave (dated seventh century B.C.) still shows vital details of the conditions of warrior horsemen in their formative phase. This is the grave at Arzan in Tuwa, opened under the guidance of the Nestor of Siberian archeology, M. P. Grjaznov. […]
     Right: plan of the Arzan kugan in Tuwa (seventh century B.C.). Model of a city in the beyond, into which the deceased will move.

   • 1996, Nature and Human Activities‎^[2], numbers 1-4, →OCLC, page 33, column 1:

     In a Japan-Russia cooperative botanical expedition in the Central Siberia in 1993, several wood samples of Betula, including small shrubs, were collected from Kudznetskiy Alatau Mts. in Khakas Republic and West Sayan Range in Tuwa Republic.

   • 2009 December, Günter Nyul, “The Neutral in biodynamic cranio-sacral osteopathy – an extraordinary state of consciousness”, in Donau Universität Krems‎^[3], archived from the original on March 02, 2024, page 15:

     In this film Ute Gebhardt looks at shamanistic healing rituals in Tuwa, which today is part of the Russian Federation. In Tuwa shamanism was able to survive five and a half decades of Soviet communism. Even today there is a shamanistic clinic in Tuwa’s capital Kyzyl.

   • 2012, Frank Riedinger, Mongolia – Faces of a Nation‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page [5]:

     The ancestors of the reindeer breeders originate from Tuwa, which is now an autonomous constituent republic of Russia.

Polish

17 – Tuwa

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Тува́ (Tuvá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.va/

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• Rhymes: -uva
• Syllabification: Tu‧wa

Proper noun

Tuwa f (related adjective tuwański)

1. Tuva (a republic of Russia; capital: Kyzyl)

Declension

Declension of Tuwa

	singular
nominative	Tuwa
genitive	Tuwy
dative	Tuwie
accusative	Tuwę
instrumental	Tuwą
locative	Tuwie
vocative	Tuwo

Derived terms

nouns

• Tuwanka
• Tuwańczyk

 

Further reading

• Tuwa in Polish dictionaries at PWN