kawa

kawa (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kava.

From Māori kawa.

kawa (uncountable)

1. Maori customs and protocol.

• Waka, waka

kawa

1. can, be able

Probably from Malay kawah.

• Hyphenation: ka‧wa

kawa

1. a large wok

• kaha, kalaha

kawà

1. large iron pot

• IPA^(key): /ka.wa/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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kawa m (uncountable)

1. alternative spelling of caoua: coffee
2. Piper methysticum (kava)

   Synonym: kava

3. kava, beverage made from Piper methysticum

   Synonym: kava

• “kawa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.wa/, [ˈkɐ.ʋə]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kawa

1. leaping place, precipice

• lele kawa (“cliff diving”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kawa(transitive)

1. to strike under cover of darkness, to assassinate

• kawa in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

káwà

1. boiler

kawa

1. Rōmaji transcription of かわ

kawa

1. middle; halfway

Borrowed from Polish kawa

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Syllabification: ka‧wa

kawa f (diminutive kôwka or kawulka or kawuszka)

1. coffee

• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “kawa”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “kawa”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “kawa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

From Proto-Northern Jê *kacû (“mortar”).

• IPA^(key): [kaˈwa]

kawa

1. mortar

kawa

1. coffee

kawa

1. spider (large)

From Proto-Polynesian *kawa (cognates include Hawaiian ʻawa, Tongan kava and Samoan ʻava)^[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ (“potent root”) metathesis of Proto-Oceanic *wakaʀ (“root”), thus doublet of aka. Sense of plant lost with species introduced to Aotearoa dying out due to its cold climate.^[3] Sense of "marae protocol" seems to be a modern extension.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkawa/ [ˈkɐwɐ]

kawa

1. sour

kawa

1. a ceremony to remove tapu from a new house or canoe
2. karakia (“ritual chants”) and customs for the opening of new houses, canoes and other events
3. marae protocol - customs of the marae and wharenui, particularly those related to formal activities such as pōhiri, speeches and mihimihi
4. acid
5. bitterness
6. (obsolete) kava, plant brought by ancestors from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum.

• → English: kawa

kawa

1. to perform the kawa ceremony, open a new house

• kawanga

• kawakawa

• “kawa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ava
• Syllabification: ka‧wa
• Homophone: Kawa

Internationalism; compare Hungarian kávé, Serbo-Croatian kava, Turkish kahve, ultimately from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve). Doublet of café.

kawa f (diminutive kawka or kawcia or kawunia or kawusia, related adjective kawowy)

2. (uncountable) coffee (beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water)
   1. (countable) coffee (serving of this beverage)
   2. (countable) coffee (act of drinking this beverage)
4. (countable) coffee (any plant of the genus Coffea)

   Synonym: kawowiec

6. (countable) coffee (seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called “beans” due to their shape)
7. (countable) coffee-like beverage made from grains, seeds, or roots of various plants
8. (countable) coffee (short social gathering where coffee is served)

• → Yiddish: קאַווע (kave)

Inherited from Old Polish *kawa.

kawa f

1. (obsolete or dialectal) jackdaw (any corvid of the genus Coloeus)

   Synonym: kawka

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kawa f

1. (Western Lublin, Kamionka) tree roof (roof supported by pillars as a display in front of a house for setting a tree)

• kawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• kawa in PWN's encyclopedia

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-kawa (infinitive kukawa)

1. to delay, be late, tarry

Conjugation of -kawa
Positive present -nakawa Subjunctive -kawe Negative -kawi Imperative singular kawa
Infinitives
Positive kukawa Negative kutokawa
Imperatives
Singular kawa Plural kaweni
Tensed forms
Habitual hukawa Positive past positive subject concord + -likawa Negative past negative subject concord + -kukawa
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nakawa) Singular Plural 1st person ninakawa/nakawa tunakawa 2nd person unakawa mnakawa 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anakawa wanakawa other classes positive subject concord + -nakawa
Negative present (negative subject concord + -kawi) Singular Plural 1st person sikawi hatukawi 2nd person hukawi hamkawi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hakawi hawakawi other classes negative subject concord + -kawi
Positive future positive subject concord + -takawa Negative future negative subject concord + -takawa
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -kawe) Singular Plural 1st person nikawe tukawe 2nd person ukawe mkawe 3rd person m-wa(I/II) akawe wakawe other classes positive subject concord + -kawe
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sikawe Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngekawa Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singekawa Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalikawa Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalikawa
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -akawa) Singular Plural 1st person nakawa twakawa 2nd person wakawa mwakawa 3rd person m-wa(I/II) akawa wakawa m-mi(III/IV) wakawa yakawa ji-ma(V/VI) lakawa yakawa ki-vi(VII/VIII) chakawa vyakawa n(IX/X) yakawa zakawa u(XI) wakawa see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwakawa pa(XVI) pakawa mu(XVIII) mwakawa
Perfect positive subject concord + -mekawa "Already" positive subject concord + -meshakawa "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jakawa "If/When" positive subject concord + -kikawa "If not" positive subject concord + -sipokawa Consecutive kakawa / positive subject concord + -kakawa Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kakawe
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nikawa -tukawa 2nd person -kukawa -wakawa/-kukaweni/-wakaweni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mkawa -wakawa m-mi(III/IV) -ukawa -ikawa ji-ma(V/VI) -likawa -yakawa ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kikawa -vikawa n(IX/X) -ikawa -zikawa u(XI) -ukawa see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kukawa pa(XVI) -pakawa mu(XVIII) -mukawa Reflexive -jikawa
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -kawa- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -kawaye -kawao m-mi(III/IV) -kawao -kawayo ji-ma(V/VI) -kawalo -kawayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kawacho -kawavyo n(IX/X) -kawayo -kawazo u(XI) -kawao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kawako pa(XVI) -kawapo mu(XVIII) -kawamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -kawa) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yekawa -okawa m-mi(III/IV) -okawa -yokawa ji-ma(V/VI) -lokawa -yokawa ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chokawa -vyokawa n(IX/X) -yokawa -zokawa u(XI) -okawa see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kokawa pa(XVI) -pokawa mu(XVIII) -mokawa
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -kawia
  • Causative: -kawisha

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kawa class V (plural makawa class VI)

1. cover (of food)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kawaq, possibly via Malay kawah. Compare Ilocano kawa, Hanunoo kawa, Central Bikol kawa, Cebuano kawa, Tausug kawa', and Javanese ꦏꦮꦃ (kawah).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkawa/ [ˈkaː.wɐ]
• Rhymes: -awa
• Syllabification: ka‧wa

kawa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏ)

1. large cauldron; large boiler or kettle

   Synonyms: kaldero, talyasi

• “kawa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “kawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kawaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• waak, awak