manawa

• IPA^(key): /manawə/
• Hyphenation: ma‧na‧wa

Unknown. Cognate of Javanese ꦩꦤꦮ (manawa, “if”).

manawa (Balinese script ᬫᬦᬯ)

1. if

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mañawa (“to breathe”).

manawa (Balinese script ᬫᬵᬦᬯ)

1. human

From Proto-Polynesian *manawa (compare with Tongan manava and Tahitian manava (both “belly”), Samoan manava (“lower abdomen”)), from Proto-Oceanic *mañawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *manihawa, from *nihawa (compare with Malay nyawa (“life”), Central Dusun ginawo (“heart”) Tagalog ginhawa (“comfort”)), from Proto-Austronesian *NiSawa (“breath, life force”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈna.wa/,

manawa

1. affections, feelings, disposition

   Hāliʻaliʻa mai ke aloha pili paʻa i kuʻu manawa.

   Recalling love dwelling firmly in my affections.

2. heart (seat of emotions)

   Ke hoʻonakulu nei i kuʻu manawa, no kuʻu ipo paha kēia wela.

   Causing my heart to pitter-patter, perhaps this warmth is from my lover.

3. time, turn

   Holoi au i nā pā i nā manawa a pau.

   I wish the dishes all the time.

4. chronology

manawa

1. if

From Proto-Polynesian *manawa (compare with Tongan manava and Tahitian manava (both “belly”), Samoan manava (“lower abdomen”)), from Proto-Oceanic *mañawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *manihawa, from *nihawa (compare with Malay nyawa (“live”), Central Dusun ginawo (“heart”), Tagalog ginhawa (“comfort”)), from Proto-Austronesian *NiSawa (“breath, life force”). Compare also with ate and ngākau for similar connections of biology and emotion.

manawa

1. (archaic) belly, stomach

   Synonyms: kōpū, puku

2. heart (of a person)

   Kāore i takitaro e tū ana ka neke whakamuri tētahi o ngā waewae, kātahi ka maranga te ringa, ko te ākinga iho, ngangengange noa te manawa o tōna tāne i te naihi e mau ana i tōna ringa.

   She didn't stand there long before she moved one leg backwards, then raised her hand and thrust it down piercing the heart of her husband with the knife she held in her hand.

   1. heart (seat of affections)

      Ka pā te aroha ki te ngākau, ka hotu te manawa.

      I'm affected by concern and my heart sobs.

3. breath

   Kua rere ake te manawa nei ki runga ki te ihu.

   The breath travels up to the nose.

4. mind
5. spirit

• pūmanawa
• whakamanawa
• whatumanawa

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

• manaua — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

From man- +‎ sawa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /maˈnawaʔ/
• Rhymes: -awaʔ
• Syllabification: ma‧na‧wa

manawà (complete nanawa, progressive nananawa, contemplative mananawa, 3rd actor trigger, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈᜏ)

1. to be fed up; to lose interest or appetite on something due to excess