awa

See also: Awa, áwa, ʻawa, āwa, ‘awa, awa-, -awa, and -awą

Translingual

Symbol

awa

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

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Angolar

Noun

awa

1. water

References

• Philippe Maurer, L'angolar: un créole afro-portugais parlé à São Tomé (1995, →ISBN: "awa [HH] eau (ptg. agua). awa boka bave. awa ngairu ruisseau, fleuve. awa ȏngȇ n'na ome sperme. awa rago ~ rogo eau de noix de coco. awa wȇ larme."

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Atong (India)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awa/

Noun

awa (Bengali script আৱা)

1. father

Synonyms

• baba
• wa•

References

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

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧wa

Etymology 1

Unknown

Noun

awa

1. a wild sea dwelling milkfish (Chanos chanos); as opposed to milkfish raised in aquaculture (see usage notes)
2. the Hawaiian ladyfish (Elops hawaiensis)

Usage notes

• Awa, alternatively named inahan sa bangus, mainly refers to the wild milkfish while bangus refer mostly to the cultivated milkfish.

Etymology 2

Short for tan-awa

Interjection

awa

1. look!

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Chickasaw

Conjunction

awa

1. and (used only in numerical expressions such as awa chaffa)

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Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English hour.

Noun

awa

1. hour

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Guajajára

Noun

awa

1. man

Derived terms

• awakwer
• awanem
• awapihun
• awate

References

• “awa” in Carl Harrison, Carole Harrison, Dicionário Guajajára-Português, Associação Internacional de Linguística SIL - Brasil, 2013.

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English hour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔá.wàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔá.wàː]
• Hyphenation: a‧wa

Noun

awā̀ f (plural awōyī, possessed form awàr̃)

1. hour

   Synonym: sa'a

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Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *awa (“channel, opening in a reef”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.wa/, [ˈɐʋə]

Noun

awa

1. channel, passage
2. port, harbor, cove

Related terms

• awāwa

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Hiligaynon

Noun

áwà

1. compassion, mercy, pity

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Jamamadí

Noun

awa

1. (Banawá) wood

References

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

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Japanese

Romanization

awa

1. Rōmaji transcription of あわ

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Kavalan

Etymology

From Japanese.

Noun

awa

1. drinkware; cup; glass

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Maori

Noun

awa

1. river, creek, stream

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Marshallese

Etymology

From English hour, from Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [ɑwɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /ɰæwæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {hawah}

Noun

awa (construct form awaan)

1. (alienable) an hour
2. (alienable) a clock
3. (alienable) time

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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Media Lengua

Noun

awa

1. water

References

• Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction (1995, →ISBN

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Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English our.

Adjective

awa

1. our

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese água and Spanish agua and Kabuverdianu agu.

The Portuguese word comes from Latin aqua.

The Latin word comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

Noun

awa

1. water

References

• Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction (1995, →ISBN

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Plains Cree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈwa/

Pronoun

awa anim sg (animate plural ôki, inanimate singular ôma, inanimate plural ôhi, Syllabics ᐊᐊᐧ)

1. (preceding a noun) this

   nipâw awa atim ― this dog is sleeping

2. (following a noun) this is

   atim awa ― this is a dog

Related terms

• ana (“that”)
• nâha (“that (over there)”)

References

• awa in Plains Cree Online Dictionary

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Pohnpeian

Etymology

Borrowed from English hour, from Middle English houre, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɐwɐ/

Noun

awa

1. hour

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English away, from Old English onweġ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈwɑː/

Adverb

awa (not comparable)

1. away

Adjective

awa (comparative mair awa, superlative maist awa)

1. absent, gone, distant

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Sanskrit अव (ava, “favor”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧wa
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔawaʔ/, [ˈʔawɐʔ]

Noun

awà

1. compassion; mercy; pity

   Synonyms: habag, pagkahabag

Derived terms

• awang-awa
• ipagmakaawa
• kaawaan
• kaawa-awa
• kawanggawa
• kawawa
• maawa
• maawain
• magmakaawa
• mapagkawanggawa
• naaawa
• nakaaawa
• nasa Diyos ang awa, nasa tao ang gawa
• pagkaawa
• pagkakawanggawa
• pagkamaawain
• pagmamakaawa
• walang-awa

 

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Ternate

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.wa]

Noun

awa

1. rainbow

Etymology 2

Possibly the same as the previous etymology, as a semantic extension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.wa]

Noun

awa

1. sign, mark

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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Yami

Noun

awa

1. sea

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Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.wā/

Pronoun

àwa

1. we (emphatic first-person plural personal pronoun)

See also

Affirmative subject pronouns

	singular	plural or honorific
1st person	mo	a
2nd person	o	ẹ
3rd person	ó	wọ́n

Negative subject pronouns

	singular	plural or honorific
1st person	mi / n	a
2nd person	o	ẹ
3rd person	[pronoun dropped]	wọn

Object pronouns

	singular	plural or honorific
1st person	mi	wa
2nd person	ọ / ẹ	yín
3rd person	[preceding vowel repeated for monosyllabic verbs] / ẹ̀	wọn

Note: except for yín, object pronouns have a high tone following a low or mid tone monosyllabic verb, and a mid tone following a high tone. For complex verbs, the tone does not change.

Emphatic pronouns

	singular	plural or honorific
1st person	èmi	àwa
2nd person	ìwọ	ẹ̀yin
3rd person	òun	àwọn

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Zazaki

Noun

awa

1. accusative singular of aw