guya

From Persian گویا (guyâ, “perhaps, it seems”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɟu(ː)jɑ/, (as if spelled güyə) /ˈɟyjæ/
• Hyphenation: gu‧ya

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guya

1. allegedly, supposedly; as if

   Niyə soruşursan? Guya cavabını özün bilmirsən.

   Why are you asking? As if you don't know the answer yourself.

   Sevmədiyi bir nəfər öləndə, yalandan ağladı, guya qanı qaralmışdı.

   When someone s/he didn't like died, s/he fake-cried, as if s/he were sad.

From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuya.

guya

1. fish

From Proto-Central New South Wales *guya, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuya.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuja/

guya

1. fish

   guya nhama gubiyaanha

   the fish is swimming.

   mari yanawaanha bagaaygu guya ganmaligu

   The men are going to the creek to catch fish.

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
• Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)
• (2015). “Ma Gamilaraay”

guya

1. (anatomy) face

Borrowed from Hokkien 牛仔 (*gû-iá, “young calf”),^[1] with an obsolete form of the suffix.^[2][3] See also kuya, piaya.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡujaʔ/ [ˈɡuː.jɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -ujaʔ
• Syllabification: guya

guyà (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜌ)

1. calf (young of a cow or carabao)

   Synonyms: bisiro, bulo

• “guya”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “guya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018