wawa

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Perhaps related to wavey (“snow goose”)?

wawa (plural wawas)

1. A snow goose.
   • 1914, Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Ben James Worman, Outing Magazine: The Outdoor Magazine of Human Interest, page 14:

     The last of the morning flight of noisy wawas going fieldwards were streaming from the water when I pushed out in the canoe […]

Shortened and simplified form of water.

• wa-wa

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwaˌwa/

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wawa (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, childish) Water. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

cf. Akan ɔwawa, Nzima wawa

wawa

1. (Krobo dialect) obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)^[1]

wawa

1. child

cf. Nzima wawa, Akan ɔwawa

wawa

1. obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)^[1]

   Synonym: patabo(ɛ)

Probably mimics the cry of a baby through onomatopoeia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwa.wa/

wawa

1. baby
2. child

• (elder): achachi

• Spanish: guagua

cf. Nzima wawa, Akan ɔwawa

wawa

1. obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)^[1]

   Synonym: patabo(ɛ)

wawa

1. language

   Naika wawa Chinook wawa.

   I speak Chinook Jargon.

wawa

1. to talk, say, tell
2. to speak (a language)

   Naika wawa Chinook wawa.

   I speak Chinook Jargon.

cf. Akan ɔwawa, Nzima wawa

wawa

1. obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)^[1]

wawa

1. gut, bowels, entrails
2. tripe

cf. Akan ɔwawa, Nzima wawa

wawa

1. obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)^[1]

wawa m (invariable)

1. (music) wah-wah (sound, or mute used to produce it)

Compare Laboya ɓawa.

wawa

1. down

   Ni-nja la wawa-mu.

   They are below you.

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 127

• IPA^(key): /ˈwawəʔ/
• Hyphenation: wa‧wa

wáwâ

1. Súlat Wáwâ spelling of uaua

wawa class 1a (plural wawawa)

1. Alternative form of baba

cf. Akan ɔwawa

wawa

1. obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)^[1][2]

   Synonym: wana

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑː.wɑ/

wāwa m

1. Alternative form of wēa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba. Compare Malay bawa.

wawa

1. to bring, to carry

wawa

1. Alternative spelling of wawaṅ

wawa

1. Alternative spelling of wa

• IPA^(key): /ˈwa.wa/

wawa

1. the child of a woman
2. a baby or infant child

• • churi
  • ususi

   

• IPA^(key): /wa.ˈwa/,

wawa

1. child

cf. Nzima wawa, Akan ɔwawa

wawa

1. obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)^[1]

   Synonym: patabo(ɛ)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwawa/
• Rhymes: -awa
• Syllabification: wa‧wa

wawa f (plural wawas)

1. Eye dialect spelling of guagua.

• uaua, vava — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

From Proto-Philippine *wáqwaq (“mouth of a river”). Compare Kapampangan uaua, Cebuano wawa, Aklanon wawa, Kankanaey wawa, Yami wawa (“sea”).

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

wawà (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜏ)

1. river mouth; delta; estuary

   Synonym: delta

Clipping of kawawa, which in turn is a contraction of kaawa-awa (“pitiful”).

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

wawà (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜏ)

1. (childish) pitiful; unfortunate; deserving one's pity

   Synonyms: kawawa, kaawa-awa, kahabag-habag, nakakaawa

   Wawa naman ang sanggol na iyon.

   Boohoo, that baby. (sense: crying; by extension: sad, pitiful)

   (literally, “How sad/pitiful is that baby.”)

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

wawà (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜏ)

1. meaning; real sense; point (of what one says)

   Synonyms: kasaysayan, kahulugan

2. understanding

   Synonyms: intindi, unawa, pagkaunawa, watas

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /waˈwa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: wa‧wa

wawá (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜏ) (obsolete)

1. act of scaring animals

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /waˈwaʔ/
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: wa‧wa

wawâ (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜏ) (obsolete)

1. name of the Baybayin letter ᜏ, corresponding to "wa"

• “wawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 104: “Barra) Vava (pp) o boca de rio.”
  • page 408: “Boca) Vava (pp) del rio o la barra”
  • page 603: “V) Vava (pc) eſta letra . v . vocal tienen los Tagalos en ſu eſcritura .| . vavayaon .| ᜏ . ſumolat ca dito nang vava, eſcriue aqui vna . V . de Indio, maſamang vava yari, es eſta .v.”

• aw-aw

From Proto-Austronesian *waqwaq.

wawa

1. sea