wa

wa

1. A traditional proa-style outrigger canoe of the Caroline Islands.

From Thai วา (waa)

wa (plural wa)

1. A traditional Thai unit of length, approximately two metres.

wa (uncountable)

1. In Japanese society, the favouring of a harmonious community over one's personal interests.

• aw

From Dutch wagen.

• IPA^(key): /vɑː/

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wa (plural waens)

1. wagon
2. cart
3. automobile, car

• (car): kar

wa

1. water

• John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

• IPA^(key): [wà]

wa

1. final interrogative particle on a yes/no question

wa

1. water

• Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

wa

1. water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

wa

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of wꜥ.

wā

1. drink

   ḿ wēnî — I drink water

   ḿ wēnī — I drank water

• Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

From dialectal wat (“what”).

• IPA^(key): /va/
  • (Berlin) IPA^(key): [vɐ̠]

wa

1. (colloquial, regional, parts of northern and central Germany) right?; is it?; is it not?

   Wir müssen da lang, wa?

   We need to go this way, don't we?

• gell
• ne
• nicht
• nicht wahr
• oder

• IPA^(key): /vah/, /vhah/
  • IPA^(key): [ʋæh], [ʋhæh] (parts of northern Germany)

wa

1. (colloquial, potentially rude) what, huh (expresses that something was extremely hard to understand acoustically or outlandish in content)

• Also spelled wat. Especially common in Hamburg and western Holstein, where dialects traditionally drop final /t/ (especially after fricatives).

• hä, hüä
• was

From French roi (“king”)

wa

1. king

• rèn

wa

1. Rōmaji transcription of わ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ワ
3. Rōmaji transcription of は
4. Rōmaji transcription of ハ
5. Rōmaji transcription of わっ
6. Rōmaji transcription of ワッ

wa

1. yes

• ali

From Proto-Slavic *va

wa

1. you (second-person plural)

wa (Zhuyin ˙ㄨㄚ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 哇

wa

1. Nonstandard spelling of wā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of wǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of wà.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• wei, wǣ, ƿa

From Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.

• IPA^(key): /wɑː/

wā n

1. woe

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• wā lā wā

• wāwa
• wēa

• Middle English: wa, wo, woo
  • English: woe
  • Scots: wa, wae

• IPA^(key): /wæ/

wa

1. water

• Panim Talking Dictionary

From Proto-Nguni *-wa, from Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. to fall

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

wa

1. water

• waw

From Old English weall, ultimately from Latin vallum.

wa (plural was)

1. wall

wa (third-person singular present was, present participle wain, past wad, past participle wad)

1. to wall

wa

1. M class inflected form of -a.
2. U class inflected form of -a.
3. Wa class inflected form of -a.

-wa (infinitive kuwa)

1. to be

wa

1. Marks a verb's object as 3rd person plural.

   ninawapenda

   I like them

2. Marks a verb's object as 2nd person plural.

ninawaona

I see you

• IPA^(key): [wa]

wa

1. this (animate)

wa

1. who (interrogative)

   Wa binne jo?

   Who are you?

• “wa (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Proto-Nguni *-wa, from Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. (intransitive) to fall

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Cognate to Silt'e [script needed] (-wa:).

wa

1. and

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind

From Proto-Nguni *-wa, from Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀a.

-wa

1. (intransitive) to fall, to drop

• iwa

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “wa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “wa”