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. 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
• 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

(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