waa

• IPA^(key): /wæː/

waa

1. The sound of a baby crying.
   • 2018 August 16, Marina Hyde, “Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team”, in The Guardian‎:

     I don’t see one of your lot getting it done, Richard. Waa waa waa, people are trying to replace us. Waa waa waa, can we stop for Cheetos.

waa (plural waa)

1. Alternative form of wa (“Thai unit of length”)

• Awa, AAW

waa

1. water

• Joachim Crass, Das K'abeena: deskriptive Grammatik einer hochlandostkuschitischen Sprache (2005)

waa

1. Alternative form of waas

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Alaba waa, Hadiyya wo'o and Sidamo waa.

wáa

1. water

• Roba Dame, Charlotte Wedekind, Burji Dictionary (2008)
• Hans-Jürgen Sasse, An Etymological Dictionary of Burji, Kuschitische Sprachstudien 1 (1982, Hamburg, Hemut Buske Verlag)

waa

1. Corvus coronoides raven

• IPA^(key): /vaː/

waa

1. expression of praise

waa

1. pendant

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary
• (2015) Ma Gamilaraay

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k/r/s-wa

waa (intransitive)

1. to rain

• mikka

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎, Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 363

• IPA^(key): /vaː/

waa

1. where

wàá (plural mǎn)

1. village

• Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi : a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

waa

1. my! (exclamation)

• waa-

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/waa-pc-disc

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Alaba waa, Burji waa and Hadiyya wo'o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaː/

waa m 

1. water

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 81
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “wa”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

waa

1. to speak

waa

1. Topic marker which draws attention to the verb.

Placed before the verb; does not change normal word order.

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

waa

1. raven

• wang ^[1]

waa

1. crow
   • "When a crow (waa) comes over and cries 'waa, waa, waa', you know that your enemies are about."^[2]
2. raven

• Aunty Joy Murphy, Andrew Kelly (2019) Wilam, A Birrarung Story, page 28

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

• IPA^(key): /ʋaː/

waa

1. fire

• Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris

• IPA^(key): /wàá/

wàá

1. Contraction of ìwọ á (“you'll”).

   Wàá dàgbà, wàá dogbó.

   You shall grow up, you shall grow old.