aua

Borrowed from Maori aua.

aua (plural aua)

1. (New Zealand) Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.
   • 1855, Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui: Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants (page 133)

     When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.

   • 1872, ‎Frederick Wollaston Hutton, ‎Sir James Hector, Fishes of New Zealand: Catalogue with Diagnoses of the Species

     The Picton Herring, a dried fish commonly known throughout the colony, is the Aua preserved by smoking.

• A.A.U., AAU

From Portuguese água (“water”).

aua

1. water
   • 1957, Rvd. P. Natalio Barrena, Gramatica Annobonesa, Instituto de Estudios Africanos, page 43:

     bo da mi ja d’ aua;

     give me some water;

aua

1. we (exclusive)

aua

1. we are (exclusive)

aua

1. hour

aua

1. ouch (expression of one's own physical pain)

• autsch, au

• aua in Duden online

aua

1. four

aua

1. herring

• IPA^(key): /awˈaː/

aua

1. ouch (expression of one's own physical pain)

• au, auć

• (Surmiran) ava
• (Puter) ova

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

aua f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) water

• aua da baiver, aua da beiber, aua da bever
• aua minerala
• aua da spina, aua da tgiern, aua da la spegna

-aua (infinitive kuaua)

1. to survey, examine, trace out