gua

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gua m (uncountable)

1. marbles (game)

• guah (Bekasi dialect)
• gue (Tanah Abang dialect)
• guè (Meester dialect)

From Chinese Hokkien 我 (góa, “I, me, my”).

• (literary) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈ(w)a/
• (Bekasi) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈ(w)ah/
• (Tanah Abang) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈ(w)əː/
• (Meester) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈ(w)ɛ/

• Literary dialect:

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• Meester dialect:

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• Hyphenation: gu‧a

gua

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

• Used mainly in a common situation, especially between friends or by someone older in terms of speaking to a younger person. As for the usage by a younger person speaking with an older person, there is no agreement whether it is appropriate to do so or not: some would regard it as inappropriate, some other would not.

• ané
• kita (euphemistic)

Ultimately from Sanskrit गुहा (guhā). Cognate with Malay gua (“cave”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡua/
• Hyphenation: gu‧a

gua

1. cave (natural cavity formed underground)

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gua

1. (botany) Areca palm, Areca nut

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎, Bangladesh: University of Michigan

Ultimately from Sanskrit गुहा (guhā). Cognate with Malay gua (“cave”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡua/

gua

1. cave (natural cavity formed underground)

• IPA^(key): /ɡua/
• Hyphenation: gua

From Malay gua, from Sanskrit गुहा (guhā, “cave”).

gua

1. cave

   Synonyms: gaung, gohong, ngalau

• goa

From Betawi Udik gua (“I, me, my”), from Chinese Hokkien 我 (góa, “I, me, my”). Doublet of gue.

gua

1. (Jakarta, slang) First-person singular pronoun: I, me, my

• wa (texting)
• gw (texting)

Indonesian first-person pronouns:

• aye, ogut, gue, gua (Jakarta)
• aku (informal)
• daku (poetic)
• saya (polite)
• hamba
• kami (euphemism)

• “gua” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Hokkien 我 (góa).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ɡuə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ɡua/
• Rhymes: -uə, -wə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a

gua (Jawi spelling ݢوا)

1. (Malaysia) I, me, my

• aku
• saya

From Sanskrit गुहा (guhā, “cave”).

gua (Jawi spelling ݢوا, plural gua-gua, informal 1st possessive guaku, 2nd possessive guamu, 3rd possessive guanya)

1. cave

gua

1. Nonstandard spelling of guā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of guǎ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of guà.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Likely cognate with Tabaru goa and possibly Ternate ugu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.a/

gua

1. the buttocks

   Synonym: pani

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): /ɡu˧.(w)a˧/

gua

1. bamboo

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45