bwa

Clipping of English Bwatoo.

bwa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bwatoo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bwatoo terms

bwa

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to break

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

• IPA^(key): /bwàː/

bwa

1. the sound of farting

• fji

• Pius W. Akumbu, Kejom (Babanki) Ideophones (2016)

Inherited from French bois, from Middle French boys, from Old French bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): /bwa/

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bwa

1. woods, forest
2. wood, timber
3. penis

bwa

1. to fall

• IPA^(key): /bwa/
• Rhymes: -bwa, -wa, -a
• Homophone: bwá

Inherited from Louisiana French boire (“to drink”).

• bwar

bwa (past bwá)

1. (one-stem, ambitransitive) to drink

   Mo bwa. ― I drink.

   Mo bwá. ― I drank. / I drunk.

   • 1998, Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, Kevin J. Rottet, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole, page 90:

     Dan tan-sa-la, ye te pa gen de RUNNING^[sic] dolo. To te gen mèt en BRIDLE onn vyeu chwal-la e kouri kote la rivyè, fe li bwa. [Dan tem-çála, yé té pa gin de running dolo. To té gin mèt in bridle onn vye shwal-la é kouri koté larivyè, fé li bwa.]

     In those days they didn't have running water. You had to put a bridle on the horse and take it to the river and make it drink.

Inherited from Louisiana French bois (“wood; etc.”).

bwa

1. alternative form of dibwa (“wood(s); stick; tree; stalk”)
   • 1998, Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, Kevin J. Rottet, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole, page 90:

     Mo sòrti [sòrtí] dan fon bwa.

     I came out from the deep woods.

bwa

1. to dig

From Middle Welsh bwa, from Middle English bowe, from Old English boga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.a/

bwa m (plural bwâu)

1. bow (weapon)
2. arch (architecture)
3. rainbow

   Synonym: enfys

• Bwa'r Gwynt (“the Milky Way”)
• bwa'r arch, bwa'r Drindod, bwa'r glaw, bwa'r hin, bwa'r wrach, bwa'r wybren (“rainbow”)