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English
Interjection
mwa
- Alternative spelling of mwah
Noun
mwa (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of mwah
Anagrams
Anguthimri
Noun
mwa
- (Mpakwithi) fire
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From French mois.
Noun
mwa
- month
Chichewa
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-ɲóa.
Pronunciation
Verb
-mwa (infinitive kumwá)
- drink
- (of medicine or pills) swallow, consume
Derived terms
Dumbea
Pronunciation
Noun
mwa
- house
References
- 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.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Interjection
mwa
- (informal) An expression of indifference: meh
Meestal heb ik zoiets van “mwa, niet zo belangrijk”.- Usually I am like, “meh, not that important.”
Adjective
mwa (not comparable)
- (informal, predicative) mediocre
De kipfilet was goed maar de saus was vies en de frietjes waren mwa.- The chicken filet was good but the sauce tasted bad and the french fries were mediocre.
Usage notes
Occurs mainly as the complement of a copular verb such as zijn (“to be”) or vinden (“to find”).
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French mois (“month”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mwa
- month
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French moi (“me”).
Pronoun
mwa (nominative mo)
- me (first-person singular objective personal pronoun)
See also
Mauritian Creole personal pronouns
Shona
Verb
-mwá (infinitive kumwá)
- Karanga and Manyika form of -nwa
Swahili
Particle
mwa
- Mu class inflected form of -a.