kwa

kwa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dâw.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dâw terms

kwa

1. eat

• Curnow, T. J. (1997). A grammar of Awa Pit (Cuaiquer): An indigenous language of south-western Colombia. The Australian National University.

• IPA^(key): /koa/

kwa

1. sky

• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990), Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa (“to die”), potentially from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *kwwú- (“to die”).

-kwa (infinitive ku̱kwa)

1. to die, to stop living

• -kwesya (“to loose someone to death”)

• Ntongoli̱ gya Lugungu‎^[1], Webonary.org, (Can we date this quote?)

• lakwa

From French croix (“cross”).

• IPA^(key): /kwa/

kwa

1. cross

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 107

kwa

1. The hiragana syllable くぁ (kwa) or the katakana syllable クァ (kwa) in Hepburn romanization.
2. The hiragana syllable くゎ (kwa) or the katakana syllable クヮ (kwa) in Hepburn romanization.
3. (obsolete) The hiragana syllable か (ka) or the katakana syllable カ (ka) in Hepburn romanization.

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa (“to die”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *kwwú- (“to die”).

-kwa

1. to die
2. to end (of a relationship)

• -kwa omutima (“to lose hope”)
• -kwa na eng'ana (“to die with something left unsaid”)

• Philipo, Nyamisana Hamis; Walker, John B. (2016), "Kabwa - Swahili - English Dictionary."‎^[3], SIL International

See the Swahili verb kwaa.

-kwa (infinitive kokwa)

1. to fall

kwa

1. to fall

Cognate with Sotho utlwa.

kwa

1. to hear, to listen

• IPA^(key): /kʷa/

-kwa

1. (transitive) to eat

   Maka shikwakan ne pujpula selek

   Don't eat the plantains uncooked

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkfa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: kwa

kwa

1. (usually reduplicated) quack; onomatopoeia for the sound of a duck

• kwa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kwa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

-kwá (infinitive gukwá, perfective -kôye)

1. pay bride price

Potentially from Proto-Bantu *kʊ́á- (“Class 15 possessive concord”). Cognate with Chichewa kwa (“Class 15 associative particle”) and Nyungwe kwa (“Class 15 associative particle”).

• Audio (Kenya):

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kwa

1. ku class_(XV) inflected form of -a
   1. by, with, -ly (used before nouns to form adverbs of manner, instrument, etc.)
      • 1973, Mohammed S. Abdulla, Duniani kuna watu, page 3:

        Kasim alianza kupanda ngazi ile kwa nguvu na kwa haraka, […]

        Kasim started climbing these stairs with strength and speed, […]

   2. for
   3. from
   4. Makes fractions where the numerator is not one, in the format denominator kwa numerator.
2. ku class_(XVII) inflected form of -a

   chumbani kwa mama yangu ― at my mother's room

• kwa heri
• kwa nini
• kwa vile
• kwa shingo upande

kwa

1. in terms of

   Sina is kwa ynwennertal it grutste lân op de wrâld. -- In terms of number of inhabitants, China is the greatest country in the world.