waa

waa

1. The sound of a baby crying.

waa (plural waa)

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

• AAW

waa

1. water

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

waa

1. Alternative form of waas

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)

• 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^[1], 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 [B.865]: 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 [Term?]. Cognates include Alaba waa and Burji waa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaː/

waa m

1. water

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 81

waa

1. to speak

waa

1. Topic marker which draws attention to the verb.

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

waa

1. raven

• IPA^(key): /ʋaː/

waa

1. fire

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