toa

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toa (plural toas)

1. A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.
   • 2000, Lin Onus, Urban dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus, 1948-1996, page 21:

     These thirty-four toa constructions, made from urban debris and ceremoniously installed in a circular (or sometimes oval) bed of sand, bring together the multiple themes centred on reclamation that preoccupied his life.

   • 2005, Bill Arthur, Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia‎, page 22:

     It seems that on leaving one place people would place a toa in the ground to show other people where they had gone.

Borrowed from Maori toa.

toa (plural toas)

1. (New Zealand) A brave warrior.
   • 1902, Journal of the Polynesian Society‎, volume 11, page 211:

     The toa or brave who distinguished himself was thought very highly of.

   • 2011, Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution‎, page 261:

     Thus in Polynesia, the toa (warrior) could challenge the ariki (priest/chief).

Borrowed from Maori toa.

toa (plural toas)

1. A Polynesian tree of the genus Casuarina, or its wood.
   • 1817, William Mariner, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific‎, page 302:

     It happens that nature has assembled in this spot, on only the wildest profusion of the vegetable kingdom, over which the lofty toa tree stands pre-eminent, but also objects of another description, overhanging rocks, hollow-sounding caverns, and steep precipices, calculated to give an aspect as bold and sublime as the imagination can well conceive, and constituting a species of scenery, which, in proportion as it is more rare, is more admired by the natives.

   • 1882, John Shertzer Hittell, The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast of North America‎, page 604:

     The toa wood of the South Pacific islands is similar to Eastern walnut in color and texture, but is much finer in figure.

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, TAO, Tao, oat, tao

toa f

1. feminine singular of tou

From Latin tua, feminine of tuus.

toa f (masculine to)

1. your; second-person feminine singular possessive pronoun

toa

1. water

• Jim and Judy Parlier. Managalasi phonology. 2008 [1963].

toa

1. genitive singular of tuba

toa

1. fowl

Attested circa 1450. From toar, from Old French toer, from Old Norse toga,[1] from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to pull”). Compare English tow.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoa̝/

toa f (plural toas)

1. towrope

• á toa

• “toa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “toa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “toa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “toa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “toa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Polynesian *toqa (compare Hawaiian koa).

toa

1. brave

From Proto-Polynesian *toa (compare Hawaiian koa), from Proto-Oceanic *toRas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teRas (compare Indonesian teras).

toa

1. A tree with dark-colored, hard wood, Casuarina equisetifolia.

Borrowed from English tow.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ɐ/

toa f (plural toas)

1. rope

• (rope): sirga

• à toa

-toa (infinitive kutoa)

1. to give

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -tolea
  • Causative: -toza
  • Passive: -tolewa
  • Reciprocal: -toana
  • Stative: -toleka

Clipping of toalett.

toa c

1. (colloquial) toilet, loo

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [twaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [twaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [t⁽ʷ⁾aː˧˧]

toa

1. a railroad car

From Min Nan 單. Compare Thai ตั๋ว (dtǔua), Khmer តួ (tuə).

toa

1. (medicine, pharmacy) a prescription

Borrowed from French toi.

toa

1. (obsolete, humorous) you

• moa