tova

See also: Tova, Tóva, töva, tøva, tóvá, and това

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈtu.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈto.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈto.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɔ.va], [ˈto.va]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic طُوب (ṭūb).

Noun

tova f (plural toves)

1. adobe

   Synonym: (Valencian) atovó

2. porous stone

   tova calcària ― limestone, travertine

   tova volcànica ― tuff

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

tova

1. feminine singular of tou

Further reading

• “tova”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tova”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “tova” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “tova”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *to. Cognates include Erzya тов (tov), Finnish tuo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtovɒ]
• Hyphenation: to‧va
• Rhymes: -vɒ

Adverb

tova (comparative tovább, superlative legtovább)

1. (archaic, literary) (farther) away

   Synonyms: el, messzebbre

2. (folksy, archaic, poetic) yonder

   Synonyms: ott, amott

3. (folksy, literary, figuratively) far

   Synonyms: messze, távol

Usage notes

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with tova-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see tova-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

Derived terms

• idestova
• tétova
• tovább

Related terms

• tavaly
• távol (first element)
• távozik (first element)
• tegnap (first element)
• tehát
• tékozol (first element)
• túl

Further reading

• tova in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• tova in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-oβa, from Proto-Tupian **epʷa (“face”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈva/, [toˈʋa]
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

tova (dependent form rova, third-person possessed form hova)

1. face

References

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “tova”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 110, column 1

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tova (Cyrillic spelling това)

1. genitive singular of tov