bua

bua

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Buryat.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Buryat terms

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.

bua

1. fruit

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bua

1. sheep

• Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan, Kouakou Kouame. Parlons baoulé: langue et culture de la Côte d’Ivoire. L’Harmattan, 2004. →ISBN

• buang

• IPA^(key): /buˈʔa/ [buˈʔa]
• Hyphenation: bu‧a

bùa (intensified buahon, Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜀ)

1. crazy; insane

   Synonyms: kapay, loko, ribong

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbu.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbu.a]

Childish variant of buba (“pimple”), from Medieval Latin būbō (“bubo”), from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

bua f (plural bues)

1. pimple
2. (childish) badness

• bona bua
• mala bua

Alteration of gúa.

bua f (plural bues)

1. (archaic, nautical, metrology) a unit of length used in measuring ships. Approximately the same as a yard, it was defined as 4 pams (“spans”)

• cana (“fathom”)
• pam (“span”)

• “bua”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bua”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bua” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

bua

1. goat

From Proto-Turkic *buka.

bua (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. bull

bua

1. to pierce

From Portuguese voar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bua.

bua

1. to fly (in the sky)

• buaidh (superseded)

From Old Irish búaid, from Proto-Celtic *boudi; compare Scottish Gaelic buaidh, Breton buz, Welsh budd.

• IPA^(key): /bˠuə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bˠuː/^[1]

bua m (genitive singular bua, nominative plural buanna)

1. (sports, competition) victory, win
2. talent, gift, faculty, forte (ability)
3. merit
4. destiny

• beir bua, beir bua agus beannacht
• ollbhua

bua

1. analytic present subjunctive of buaigh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaiḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 95
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bua”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bua”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.a/
• Rhymes: -ua
• Hyphenation: bù‧a

bua f (plural bue)

1. (childish) a mild wound; boo-boo, owie

   Synonym: feritina

• bau

From Portuguese voar.

bua

1. to fly (in the sky)

Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-wa.

bua

1. teeth

• Debbarma, Binoy (2001) “bua”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary‎^[1], Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, →ISBN, page 27

Onomatopoeic.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbu.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbuː.a]

bua f (genitive buae); first declension

1. The sound made by infants when asking for their drink; baba.

First-declension noun.

• vinibua

• papa
• pappa

• “bua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

bua

1. sarong; blanket

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.

bua

1. fruit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

bua (mutated form mbua)

1. fruit

• mowua

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 37.

• bui (old spelling or dialectal)

bua f

1. definite singular of bu

From Proto-Austronesian *buaq (compare Malay buah, Hawaiian hua).

bua

1. fruit

bua

1. to speak

• Audio (Kenya):

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bua class V (plural mabua class VI)

1. stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)

From bu +‎ -a.

bua (present buar, preterite buade, supine buat, imperative bua)

1. (ambitransitive) to boo

• utbuad

• bua in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bua in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Cognate with West Makian bual (“termite”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.a]

bua

1. a termite

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /búa/

bua

1. to speak

• IPA^(key): /bua/

bua

1. to skin an animal

From Proto-Oceanic *puaq (“areca nut, fruit”) with irregular loss of *q and voicing, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

• IPA^(key): /bua/

bua

1. areca nut

• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.