dawa

See also: da'wa

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da‧wa

Noun

dawa

1. millet

Synonyms

• (millet): kabog

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdawa]

Verb

dawa

1. third-person singular present of dawaś

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Sundanese

Noun

dawa

1. lawsuit; a dispute carried before a court or authority.

References

• “Dawa” in Jonathan Rigg, A Dictionary of the Sunda language (1862), page 103.

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Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic دَوَاء‏ (dawāʾ).

Noun

dawa (n class, plural dawa) or dawa (ma class, plural madawa)

1. medicine

Usage notes

In its strictest sense, this word means "medicine", but is used generally for anything that improves or protects the condition of another thing; for example dawa ya viatu (“dawa of the shoes”) means "shoe polish".

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Welsh

Verb

dawa

1. Soft mutation of tawa.