bwa

See also: bwá, bwǎ, Bwa, and BWA

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Bwatoo.

Symbol

bwa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bwatoo.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bwatoo terms

Anguthimri

Verb

bwa

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to break

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

Babanki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwàː/

Interjection

bwa

1. the sound of farting

Synonyms

• fji

Further reading

• Pius W. Akumbu, Kejom (Babanki) Ideophones (2016)

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Inherited from French bois, from Middle French boys, from Old French bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwa/

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Noun

bwa

1. woods, forest
2. wood, timber
3. penis

Derived terms

• bwa nèf
• bwa ron
• gwo bwa

Kituba

Verb

bwa

1. to fall

Kongo

Verb

bwa

1. to fall

Louisiana Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwa/
• Rhymes: -bwa, -wa, -a
• Homophone: bwá

Etymology 1

Inherited from Louisiana French boire (“to drink”).

Alternative forms

• bwar

Verb

bwa (past bwá)

1. (one-stem, ambitransitive) to drink

   Mo bwa. ― I drink.

   Mo bwá. ― I drank. / I drunk.

   • 1998, Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, Kevin J. Rottet, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole, page 90:

     Dan tan-sa-la, ye te pa gen de RUNNING^[sic] dolo. To te gen mèt en BRIDLE onn vyeu chwal-la e kouri kote la rivyè, fe li bwa. [Dan tem-çála, yé té pa gin de running dolo. To té gin mèt in bridle onn vye shwal-la é kouri koté larivyè, fé li bwa.]

     In those days they didn't have running water. You had to put a bridle on the horse and take it to the river and make it drink.

Related terms

• bwason, labwason (“drink”)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Louisiana French bois (“wood; etc.”).

Noun

bwa

1. alternative form of dibwa (“wood(s); stick; tree; stalk”)
   • 1998, Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, Kevin J. Rottet, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole, page 90:

     Mo sòrti [sòrtí] dan fon bwa.

     I came out from the deep woods.

Venda

Verb

bwa

1. to dig

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh bwa, from Middle English bowe, from Old English boga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.a/

Noun

bwa m (plural bwâu)

1. bow (weapon)
2. arch (architecture)
3. rainbow

   Synonym: enfys

Derived terms

• Bwa'r Gwynt (“the Milky Way”)
• bwa'r arch, bwa'r Drindod, bwa'r glaw, bwa'r hin, bwa'r wrach, bwa'r wybren (“rainbow”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bwa

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bwa	fwa	mwa	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.