hava

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ha‧va

• Audio

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Noun

hava (definite accusative havanı, plural havalar)

1. air

   təmiz hava ― clean air

   açıq hava ― open air

2. weather (especially in the plural)

   həftəlik hava proqnozu ― weekly weather forecast

   Havalar yenə soyuyur. ― The weather is getting cold, again.

3. (music) tune, melody, motive, motif

Declension

Related terms

• havayı

Blagar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hava/

Noun

hava

1. house

References

• A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1
• The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
• Stokhof (1975)

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse hafa, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, seize, catch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛaːva/

Verb

hava (third person singular past indicative hevði, third person plural past indicative høvdu, supine havt)

1. to have

Conjugation

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ha‧va

Etymology 1

From the hav- stem of hó (“snow”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

Noun

hava

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of hó

   A Kilimandzsáró hava ― The Snows of Kilimanjaro (by Ernest Hemingway)

Declension

Etymology 2

From the hav- stem of hó (“month”, archaic or formal) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

Noun

hava

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of hó

   Karácsony hava ― the month of Christmas, December (archaic)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• havene

Noun

hava n pl

1. definite plural of hav

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

hava n pl

1. definite plural of hav

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hafa, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, seize, catch”).

Alternative forms

• have (e infinitive)
• ha
• hå (dialectal)

Verb

hava (present tense hev, past tense havde, past participle havt, passive infinitive havast, present participle havande, imperative hav)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of ha

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• hafwa, haffwa, haffua

Etymology

From Old Norse hafa, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną.

Verb

hava

1. to have
2. to hold

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: ha, hava, hafva (pre-1906 spelling)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish هوا (hava), from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

Noun

hàva f (Cyrillic spelling ха̀ва)

1. (regional) air

Declension

Swedish

Verb

hava (present haver, preterite hade, supine haft, imperative hav)

1. Dated form of ha.

Further reading

• hava in Svensk ordbok.

Tat

Etymology

Compare Persian هوا (havâ).

Noun

hava

1. air

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هوا (hava), from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑˈvɑ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ha‧va

Noun

hava (definite accusative havayı, plural havalar)

1. weather
2. air
3. tune
4. affectation

Declension

Derived terms

• havaalanı (“airport”)
• havayolları (“airlines”)
• havacı (“pilot”)
• havacılık (“aviation”)
• havadar (“airy, breezy, spacious”)
• (colloquial) havalı (“stylish, hip”) — (ironicaly) ostentatious, flamboyant
• (colloquial) hava atmak (“to act flamboyantly”)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• hava in Reverso (Turkish-English)

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *qawa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣaβa/

Noun

hava

1. mouth

Further reading

• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)