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ua

1. BIPM recommendation for the unit symbol of astronomical unit

• au (IAU recommendation for the unit symbol of astronomical units)
• ㍳ (Unicode glyph for astronomical unit)
• IPA(key): [uwa]

ua

1. nothing

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
• IPA(key): /ɑ/

ua

1. I

ua

1. I am
2. I was

From Proto-Central Pacific *ua, from Proto-Oceanic *uʀat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat, from Proto-Austronesian *huʀaC.

• IPA(key): /ˈu.a/

ua

1. (anatomy) vein (blood vessel)

• IPA(key): /y.a/

ua m (invariable)

1. abbreviation of unité astronomique

• au

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ua(combining form: u-, plural uarang)

1. that, it

Garo determiners

From either Mandarin 做 (zuò) ("to do", "to perform") or Mandarin 作 ("to do", "to perform"), both have identical meanings, with the loss of the consonant due to sound simplification over time.

• IPA(key): /ʔu̯ə˧/

ua

1. to do
2. to make
3. to proceed
4. to become

• IPA(key): /ˈu.a/, [ˈu.wə]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ua

1. used before a verb to denote completed action
   • 1840, October 8th, 1840 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom
     Ua hana mai ke Akua i nā lāhui kānaka a pau i ke koko hoʻokahi, e noho like lākou ma ka honua nei me ke kuʻikahi, a me ka pōmaikaʻi. Ua hāʻawi mai nō ke Akua i kekahi mau waiwai like, no nā kānaka a pau, me nā aliʻi a pau o nā ʻāina a pau loa.
     God hath made of one blood all nations of men, to dwell on the face of the earth in unity and blessedness. God has also bestowed certain rights alike on all men, and all chiefs and all people of all lands.

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian, from Proto-Polynesian *quha (compare with Māori ua, Tahitian ua, Samoan ua, Tongan ʻuha),[1] from Proto-Oceanic *qusan (compare with Fijian uca), from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzan (compare with Malay hujan, Tagalog ulan), from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN.[2][3]

ua

1. rain (condensed water from a cloud)

ua

1. (intransitive) to rain

2. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “ua”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 361

3. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “quha”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9

4. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2003), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[1], volume 2: The Physical Environment, Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 546–7

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ua

1. the aforementioned

• ó (current)

From Old Irish aue.

ua m (genitive singular **ua, nominative plural uaí)

1. archaic form of ó (“grandson, grandchild; descendant”)

Mutated forms of ua

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “ua”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[4], Stirling, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úa, óa, ó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “ua”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 768
• awa, uwa, wa (Súlat Wáwâ)
• aua

From Proto-Austronesian *au[1]. Compare Atayal au, Kankanaey aw, Malay au.

• IPA(key): /ˈwa/ [ˈwa]
• IPA(key): /ˈwa/ [ˈuːə]
• Hyphenation: ua, u‧a

ua or úa

1. yes
   Synonyms: o, pu, opu, wapu
   Antonym: ali

2. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*au”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• IPA(key): /ˈua/ [ˈʉɐ]

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *quha (compare with Tahitian ua, Samoan ua and Tongan ʻuha) from Proto-Oceanic *qusan (compare with Fijian uca)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzan (compare with Malay hujan, Tagalog ulan).[1][2]

ua

1. rain (condensed water from a cloud)

• uawhatu

ua (passive uaina)

1. to rain

2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “quha”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9

3. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2003), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[2], volume 2: The Physical Environment, Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 546–7

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian, from Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat (compare with Malay urat, Javanese otot, Tagalog ugát).[1][2]

ua (plural uaua)

1. (anatomy) vein (blood vessel)

2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ua.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9

3. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2016), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[3], volumes 5: People: Body and Mind, Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 98–9

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “ua”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 545
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “ua”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎[5], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN
• u̯a

From Vulgar Latin *ad hac, from Latin ad + hac. Compare Aromanian aoa.[1]

ua

1. here

2. ^ https://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Pagin%C4%83:Theodor_Capidan_-_Meglenorom%C3%A2nii,_vol._I_(Istoria_%C8%99i_graiul_lor).pdf/78

ua f sg

1. alternative spelling of ũa

• In standard Mirandese orthography, the character ⟨ũ⟩ represents the phoneme /ũ/ in hiatus. However, because Portuguese keyboards do not support this character, it is often replaced with ⟨u⟩.

Niuean cardinal numbers

From Proto-Polynesian *rua, from Proto-Oceanic *rua, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

ua

1. two

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *quha.

ûa

1. rain

• “ua”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ua

1. present tense marker

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *quha.

ua

1. rain

• uva

From Latin ūva.

• IPA(key): /ˈua/

ua f (plural uas)

1. grape, (collective noun) grapes (fruit)
   Synonym: aghina

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ua.

ua

1. uncle (older brother of someone’s parent)
   Antonym: amang
2. aunt (older sister of someone’s parent)
   Antonym: bibi

From Common Bantu *dìdʊ̀bà.

ua class V (plural maua class VI)

1. flower
   • 1993, Ben R. Mtobwa, Pesa Zako Zinanuka [Your Money Stinks]‎[6], →ISBN, page 104:
     Maua alikuwa katika hali halisi inayopendeza kama maua yenyewe.
     Maua was in fact as beautiful as flowers themselves.

From Common Bantu *dʊ̀bàdà.

ua class XI (plural nyua class X)

1. yard, court (an enclosure typically attached to the back of a house)
   • 2016, Dag Heward-Mills, Hatua Za Kufikia Upako‎[7], →ISBN, page 136:
     Waliopanda katika nyumba ya BWANA watasitawi katika nyua za Mungu wetu.
     Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
2. fence (of sticks or grass, of the type used for such an enclosure)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-bʊ́da (“to break, to smash, to kill”).

-ua (infinitive kuua)

1. to kill
   Synonym: -fisha
   • 2001, Visiki‎[8], →ISBN, page 1:
     KIONGOZI: Ndovu aliua watu kama kuku na mbwa.
     LEADER: The elephant killed people as if they were chickens and dogs.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Passive: -uawa, -uliwa
  • Reciprocal: -uana
• Nominal derivations:
  • mauaji (“killing, murder”)
  • muuaji (“killer”)
  • mwuaji (“killer”)
  • uuaji (“killing, murder”)

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian, from Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzan, from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN.

ua

1. rain (condensed water from a cloud)

• IPA(key): [ˈu.a]

ua (Jawi ؤواة)

1. sentence-final negation particle; not
   mina motika mifala ua ― she does not leave her house
   • An Account of the Earthquake in 1840:
     ibadan saki ua
     he does not feel well
     (literally, “his body is not feeling well”)
     ngasisioko giki bariman bato simara ibingun ua
     all the believers were not bewildered
     aku ua sakali-sakali ana ihoru sosira
     it is absolutely not allowed that they paddle earlier

The verbs sema (“to exist”) and mau (“to want”) are not negated by ua, which would be ungrammatical. Instead, one uses the verbs malo (“to not exist”) and hodu (“to not want”), respectively.

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890), Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tongan cardinal numbers

From Proto-Polynesian *rua, from Proto-Oceanic *rua, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *dua, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *dua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

• IPA(key): /u.a/

ua

1. two
   Pamphlets in the Tonga language, "Koe Hisitolia o Natula", page 58:
   Oku faa vahe ae kalasi huhu kihe faahiga e hiva, o behe:—
   1. Koe manu nima ua (Bimana)
   There are nine things like parts called the classes which have breasts, like so:—
   1. The animals with two hands (Bimana)

From Proto-Oceanic *ua.

• IPA(key): /ua/

ua

1. to go

• M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2003), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[9], volume 2: The Physical Environment, Australian National University, →ISBN
• ùa, ova

From Latin ūva. Compare Italian uva.

ua f (plural ue)

1. grape

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔəjH (“to do, work”).[1]

| | This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Possiblity of a Sinitic borrowing for the Proto-HM term? Mandarin 做 (zuò, “to do, perform”) or Mandarin 作 (“id”) seem like good candidates. The correspondence of the *ʔs in the Old Chinese terms with the ʔ in the HM proto-form would have to be established, as well as the collapsing of gs to H.” | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |

• IPA(key): /ʔuə̯˧/

ua

1. to do
2. to make
3. to proceed
4. to become

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[10], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010), Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 106; 285.