owa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "owa"

Bavarian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle High German ab-her / abeher / abher. By surface analysis, å +‎ her. Compare archaic German abher.

Adverb

owa

1. alternative spelling of åwa (“down”)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle High German aber / aver, from Old High German aber / abur / aver / avur / afur, from Proto-Germanic *aferą (“behind”). Compare German aber, Luxembourgish awer (“but”), Saterland Frisian oaber (“but”), Middle Low German āver, German Low German aver (“but”).

Conjunction

owa (coordinating)

1. alternative spelling of åwa (“but, however”)

Bokar

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

owa

1. fox

References

• 欧阳觉亚 (1985), “owa”, in 珞巴族語言简志:崩尼-博嘎尔语 [Linguistic survey of the Lhoba people:Bokar language]‎^[1], Beijing: 民族出版社, →OCLC, page 96

Edo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Edoid *U-bhaGɪ or Proto-Edoid *-baGɪ, cognates with Yekhee owa, Esan uwa, Urhobo uwevwi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ò.wá/
• Hyphenation: ò‧wá

Noun

òwá

2. house (human abode)

Derived terms

• owa amẹ (“water tank”)
• owa ebe (“school”)
• owa egbagbọ (“church”)
• owa ekẹn (“mud house”)
• owa ẹbọ (“temple”)
• owa ẹki (“shop”)
• owa ẹzọ (“native court building court”)
• owa iyayi (“church”)

Hopi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

owa

1. rock, stone
2. kidney stone, gallstone

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.wa/, [ˈo.wa]
• Rhymes: -owa
• Hyphenation: o‧wa

Noun

owa (plural owa-owa)

2. gibbon (small ape of the family Hylobatidae)

   Synonyms: ungka, wau-wau, wawa

Further reading

• “owa”, 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

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.va/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.vɒ/, /ˈɔ.va/

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• Rhymes: -ɔva
• Syllabification: o‧wa

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Slavic *ova

Old Polish owa

Polish owa

Inherited from Old Polish owa, from Proto-Slavic *ova.

Interjection

owa! (obsolete or dialectal)

1. signifying doubt, dissatisfaction, determination

   Alternative form: owwa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

owa

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of ów

Further reading

• “owa”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “owa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “owa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1809), “owa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, volume 2a, page 589
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “owa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861, volume I, page 947
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “owa!”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 914
• Jan Karłowicz (1903), “owa”, in Hieronim Łopaciński, Wacław Taczanowski, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 3: L do O, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 486
• Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “owa!”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
• Woliński, Marcin; Saloni, Zygmunt; Wołosz, Robert; Gruszczyński, Włodzimierz; Skowrońska, Danuta; Bronk, Zbigniew (2020), “owa”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎^[4], 4. online edition, Warszawa