mwa

See also: MWA, mwa-, and mwá

English

Interjection

mwa

1. Alternative spelling of mwah

Noun

mwa (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of mwah

Anagrams

• MAW, Maw, WMA, awm, maw

Anguthimri

Noun

mwa

1. (Mpakwithi) fire

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French mois.

Noun

mwa

1. month

Chichewa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-ɲóa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʷa/

Verb

-mwa (infinitive kumwá)

1. drink
2. (of medicine or pills) swallow, consume

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -mwera

Dumbea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moa/

Noun

mwa

1. house

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwɑ/

Interjection

mwa

1. (informal) An expression of indifference: meh

   Meestal heb ik zoiets van “mwa, niet zo belangrijk”.

   Usually I am like, “meh, not that important.”

Adjective

mwa (not comparable)

1. (informal, predicative) mediocre

   De kipfilet was goed maar de saus was vies en de frietjes waren mwa.

   The chicken filet was good but the sauce tasted bad and the french fries were mediocre.

Usage notes

Occurs mainly as the complement of a copular verb such as zijn (“to be”) or vinden (“to find”).

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mois (“month”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwa/

Noun

mwa

1. month

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French moi (“me”).

Pronoun

mwa (nominative mo)

1. me (first-person singular objective personal pronoun)

See also

Mauritian Creole personal pronouns

			singular	plural
1st person			mo mwa (objective)	nou
2nd person			to (informal), ou (formal) twa (objective)	zot
3rd person			li	zot, bann-la

Shona

Verb

-mwá (infinitive kumwá)

1. Karanga and Manyika form of -nwa

Swahili

Particle

mwa

1. Mu class inflected form of -a.