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a kind of herb with white leaves (clarification of this definition is needed)
References
Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 115
Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “waja”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “waha”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 42
Yoruba
Etymology 1
From wọ̀(“to enter”) + àjà(“ceiling, attic”), literally “To enter the ceiling”.
(euphemistic,idiomatic) to pass on, this is specifically reserved for a king, queen, or chief as it is believed a ruler or a chief doesn't die (kú), but instead passes on into another world