awa

awa

1. water

• Philippe Maurer, L'angolar: un créole afro-portugais parlé à São Tomé (1995, →ISBN: "awa [HH] eau (ptg. agua). awa boka bave. awa ngairu ruisseau, fleuve. awa ȏngȇ n'na ome sperme. awa rago ~ rogo eau de noix de coco. awa wȇ larme."

• Hyphenation: a‧wa

Unknown

awa

1. a wild sea dwelling milkfish (Chanos chanos); as opposed to milkfish raised in aquaculture (see usage notes)
2. the Hawaiian ladyfish (Elops hawaiensis)

• Awa, alternatively named inahan sa bangus, mainly refers to the wild milkfish while bangus refer mostly to the cultivated milkfish.

Short for tan-awa

awa

1. look!

awa

1. and (used only in numerical expressions such as awa chaffa)

Borrowed from English hour.

awa

1. hour

awa

1. man

• awakwer
• awanem
• awapihun
• awate

• “awa” in Carl Harrison, Carole Harrison, Dicionário Guajajára-Português, Associação Internacional de Linguística SIL - Brasil, 2013.

Borrowed from English hour.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔá.wàː/
• Hyphenation: a‧wa

awā̀ f (plural awōyī, possessed form awàr̃)

1. hour

   Synonym: sa'a

awa

1. port

áwà

1. compassion, mercy, pity

awa

1. (Banawá) wood

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

awa

1. Rōmaji transcription of あわ

From Japanese.

awa

1. drinkware; cup; glass

awa

1. water

• Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction (1995, →ISBN

From English our.

awa

1. our

From Portuguese água and Spanish agua and Kabuverdianu agu.

The Portuguese word comes from Latin aqua.

The Latin word comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

awa

1. water

• Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction (1995, →ISBN

Borrowed from English hour, from Middle English houre, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

• IPA^(key): /ɐwɐ/

awa

1. hour

IPA^(key): /əˈwɑː/

awa (not comparable)

1. away

awa (comparative mair awa, superlative maist awa)

1. absent, gone, distant

From Sanskrit अव (ava, “favor”).

awà

1. compassion, mercy, pity

awa

1. accusative singular of aw