mwa

mwa

1. Alternative spelling of mwah.

mwa (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of mwah.

• WMA, awm, MAW, maw, WAM, Maw

mwa

1. (Mpakwithi) fire

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

From French mois.

mwa

1. month

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-mʊ́a.

• IPA^(key): /mʷa/

-mwa (infinitive kumwá)

1. drink

   Synonym: -nyota

2. (of medicine or pills) swallow, consume

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -mwera
  • Causative: -mwetsa
  • Passive: -mwedwa
  • Reduplicative: -mwamwa
  • Repetitive: -mwanso
  • Stative: -mweka

• -nyotira

• IPA^(key): /moa/

mwa

1. house

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• IPA^(key): [mwɑ]

mwa

1. (informal) An expression of indifference: meh

   Meestal heb ik zoiets van “mwa, niet zo belangrijk”.

   Usually I am like, “meh, not that important.”

mwa (not comparable)

1. (informal, predicative) mediocre

   De kipfilet was goed maar de saus was vies en de frietjes waren mwa.

   The chicken filet was good but the sauce tasted bad and the french fries were mediocre.

Occurs mainly as the complement of a copular verb such as zijn (“to be”) or vinden (“to find”).

From French mois (“month”).

• IPA^(key): /mwa/

mwa

1. month

From French moi (“me”).

mwa (nominative mo)

1. me (first-person singular objective personal pronoun)

-mwá (infinitive kumwá)

1. Karanga and Manyika form of -nwa

mwa

1. mu class_(XVIII) inflected form of -a

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-ɲóa.

-mwa (infinitive kumwa)

1. to drink

• -mweska (“to cause to drink”)

• Wm. Y. Turner, Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English-Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary, 1996

• -ng'wa (archaic)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-ŋʊ́a.

-mwa (infinitive kumwa)

1. to drink

• Ciyawo - English Dictionary: Dikishonale ja Ŵakulijiganya