vaxa

• gaxa, vaixa, varxa

Apparently from Latin *vagina, from vagīna. Doublet of vaíña. Compare also Portuguese vagem.

• IPA^(key):

vaxa f (plural vaxas)

1. pod (a seed case for legumes)

   Synonyms: cornello, vaíña

• esvaxar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vaxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vaxa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vaxa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaksa/
• IPA^(key): /ˈvaxsa/

  Rhymes: -axsa

From Old Norse vaxa, from Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg-.

vaxa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative óx, third-person plural past indicative uxu, supine vaxið)

1. to grow

• peningar vaxa ekki á trjám

From the noun vax (“wax”).

vaxa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative vaxaði, supine vaxað)

1. to wax (apply wax to)

From Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to increase, enlarge”).

vaxa (singular past indicative óx, plural past indicative óxu, past participle vaxinn)

1. to grow, increase

• vǫxtr m

• Icelandic: vaxa
• Faroese: vaksa, veksa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: veksa, vekse
• Old Swedish: vaxa, væxa
  • Swedish: växa
• Old Danish: waxæ
  • Danish: vokse
    • Norwegian Bokmål: vokse
• Gutnish: vaksa

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vaxa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

vaxa (present vaxar, preterite vaxade, supine vaxat, imperative vaxa)

1. to wax, to apply wax to something, usually to make the surface shiny
2. to wax, to remove hair by applying wax

• vaxning

• vaxa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vaxa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vaxa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)