kua

kua

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kwanyama.

kua

1. absolutive singular of ku

Compare Cebuano and Tagalog kuha.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈʔa/
• Hyphenation: ku‧a

kùa (plural kurua, Basahan spelling ᜃᜓᜀ)

1. to get; to take; to seize; to acquire; to obtain
2. to hire; to employ
3. to major (in a course)
4. to extract; to derived from
5. to find; to discovery

   Synonyms: dukay, hanap

6. (by extension) to grab

   Synonym: takma

kua

1. to eat.

kua

1. snake

kua

1. bee

• Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎, Santa Barbara: University of California

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.a/,

From Proto-Polynesian *tuqa (compare with Maori tua “back, behind, beyond”, Samoan tua “beyond, outside”, Tahitian tua “ridge, crest”, and Tongan tuʻa),^[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *tuqan (“bone”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuqəlaŋ (compare with Chamorro to'lang, Malay tulang, Ilocano tulang), *tuqəlan (“bone”), from Proto-Austronesian *CuqəlaN.^[3]

kua

1. (anatomy) back
2. back; rear
3. burden

• hoʻokua (“burdensome”)
• kuaʻāina (“countryside”)

• hulikua (“turn one's back”, verb)
• kuahiwi (“mountain”)
• kuamoʻo (“backbone”)

kua

1. to carry on the back, as a child

kua

1. windward

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

kua

1. (transitive) to chop, chip, hack, dub, strike, cut out

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kua. Cognates with Kankanaey kua, Central Bontoc kuwani, Pangasinan kuan, Tagalog kuwan, Hanunoo kuwa, Cebuano kuwan, and Tontemboan kua, kuan.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈa/,

kuá

1. Replaces a word or root that the speaker cannot recall; whatchamacallit; thingy; thingamajig
2. With initial CV reduplication, used to form possessive pronouns

Hinde (1904) records kukua (or kuite) as equivalents of English die in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba kugua as its equivalent.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kua/

kua (infinitive gũkua)

1. to die^[2]
2. to break into pieces, to fall into pieces^[2]

• (antonym(s) of “to die”): gũtũũra

(Proverbs)

• mũici na mũndũ mũka atigaga kĩeha akua

(Nouns)

• gĩkuũ class 7
• mũkuũ class 1

(Adjectives)

• -kuũ

• (to break into pieces): gwatũka

kua

1. Nonstandard spelling of kuā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of kuǎ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kuà.

• 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.

From Bavarian Kuah, from Middle High German kuo, from Old High German kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Cognate with German Kuh, English cow.

kua f

1. cow

• “kua” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• kuen

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kua m or f

1. definite feminine singular of ku

From Old Norse kúga. Akin to English cow.

• kue

• IPA^(key): /²kʉːɑ/

kua (present tense kuar, past tense kua, past participle kua, passive infinitive kuast, present participle kuande, imperative kua/ku)

1. to cow, subdue

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʉːɑ/

kua f

1. definite singular of ku

• “kua” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Portuguese qual and Spanish cual.

kua

1. which

• IPA^(key): /kua/

-kua

1. (transitive) to buy

Inherited from Proto-Puroik *kua.

kua^[1][2]

1. water

Inherited from Proto-Bantu .

• Audio (Kenya):

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-kua (infinitive kukua)

1. to grow (to become bigger)

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -kuza (“to enlarge / to glorify”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • ukuaji (“growth”)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-kəw.

kua

1. nine

• Zomi Ordbog by D.L. Haokip

From Proto-Polynesian *kua. Cognates include Maori kua and Samoan ʻua.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ku‧a

kua

1. Used to indicate the present perfect.

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 167

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *klæwX (“liquid, soup”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kuə̯˧/

kua

1. runny liquid, fluid
2. juice

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 89.