doa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "doa"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Dom with a as a placeholder.

Symbol

doa

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dom terms

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doa/ [d̪o.a]
• Rhymes: -oa, -a
• Hyphenation: do‧a

Verb

doa (masculine allocutive zoak, feminine allocutive zoan)

1. third-person singular, present indicative of joan (“to go”)

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• tuan (East Central Bavarian)

Etymology

From Middle High German tuon, from Old High German tuon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁t. Cognates include German tun, Dutch doen and Luxembourgish doen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̥oɐ̯/, [d̥o̞ɐ̯]

• Audio:

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Verb

doa (past participle do, 3rd person singular subjunctive daad) (West Central Bavarian)

1. to do

   Synonym: macha

2. (subjunctive) would (auxillary)

Usage notes

The subjunctive form of macha (forms based on daad) is used as an auxillary to form the subjunctive of verbs, which don't have a common subjunctive form. The usage corresponds to würde in Standard German.

Conjugation

Conjugation of doa

infinitive	doa
past participle	do
	present	past	subjunctive
1st person singular	dua	—	dàd
2nd person singular	duast	—	dàdst
3rd person singular	duad	—	dàd
1st person plural	dean	—	dàn
2nd person plural	deats	—	dàds
3rd person plural	dean	—	dàn
	imperative
singular	dua
plural	duats

Belizean Creole

Doa

Etymology 1

From English door.

Noun

doa

1. door

Derived terms

• doa mowt
• doabel

Etymology 2

From English dough.

Noun

doa

1. dough

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 92.

Galician

doas de colar (Galician Iron Age necklace beads)

Etymology 1

13th century. Probably from Latin donā (“gifts”); alternatively, from Latin dolare (“to hew or chop into shape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoa̝/

Noun

doa f (plural doas)

1. bead

   Synonyms: abelorio, conta

   • 1395, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 160:

     mando a miña Neta Tareija sanches todo o aliofar et coraes que eu ey et os esmaltes et o meu Reliquario esmaltado et a miña Cunca de plata dourada et as miñas doas de ouro

     I send to my granddaughter Tareixa Sanchez all of my pearls and corals, and the enamels, and my enamelled relicary and my gilded silver bowl and my beads of gold

2. (dated) any trinket
   • 1347, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 280:

     It. mando que todas las doas que eu ouuer a o tempo de miña morte assy adubos de panos como yrilandas [grilandas] e relicas e cintas e outras qualesquer doas que eu aia e sse pola uentura estouuere delas ou todas en penora mando que sse tiren e sse den a o prior ffrey Johan nunes con todos los panos de uestir

     Item: I command that every trinket that I could have at the time of my death, so clothing ornaments, as well as garlands, relics, ribbons, and any other trinket that I could have -and in case that they were pawned I command that they should be redeemed- and they should give them to the prior, the friar Johan Nunes, with all of my clothes

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “doa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “doa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “doa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “doa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “doa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

doa

1. inflection of doar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of doer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay doa, from Classical Malay doa (“prayer”), from Arabic دُعَاء (duʕāʔ, “invocation, supplication”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doa/, /do.ˈʔa/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: doa

Noun

doa

1. a prayer

   Synonym: sembahyang

Derived terms

• berdoa
• mendoa
• mendoakan

Further reading

• “doa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Romanization

doa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ドア

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic دُعَاء (duʿāʾ, “supplication, invocation, prayer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: do‧a

Noun

doa (Jawi spelling دعاء, plural doa-doa or doa²)

1. prayer (a personal supplication or invocation, as opposed to formal ritual prayer).

   Ibu itu membacakan doa untuk keselamatan anaknya. ― The mother recited a prayer for her child's safety.

2. a hope; a wish.

   Doa saya agar kamu cepat sembuh. ― My hope is that you recover quickly.

Usage notes

• In an Islamic context, `doa` refers to personal supplication, whereas solat or sembahyang refers to the obligatory ritual prayers performed five times a day.

Verb

doa (Jawi spelling دعاء)

1. to pray.

   Sila doa untuk saya. ― Please pray for me.

Usage notes

• This is the root word. The active verb forms berdoa (to pray) and mendoakan (to pray for someone/something) are more commonly used in sentences.

Derived terms

• berdoa
• mendoakan
• didoakan

Further reading

• "doa" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• doene m or n

Noun

doa m or n

1. definite neuter plural of do

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• doane

Noun

doa m or n

1. definite neuter plural of do

Plautdietsch

Adverb

doa

1. there, in that place
   • 2003, De Bibel, Mose I (Genesis) 13:4:

     Doa haud hee ea eenen Aultoa jemoakt. Un doa roopt Abram däm Harn aun.

     There he first built an altar. And there Abraham invoked the Lord.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.a/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo(w).ɐ/

• Rhymes: -oɐ
• Homophone: Doa
• Hyphenation: do‧a

Verb

doa

1. inflection of doar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of doer

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

doa class V (plural madoa class VI)

1. spot
2. blemish / stain (small flaw which spoils the appearance of something)

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from French alésoir.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zwaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jwaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [j⁽ʷ⁾aː˧˧]

Verb

doa

1. to drill by using some sort of reamer