mwa

mwa

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mwatebu terms

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/

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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 *-mʊ́a.

-mwa (infinitive kumwa)

1. to drink

• -mweska (“to cause to drink”)
• -mweka (“to be drinkable, to be drunk”)

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

• -ng'wa

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-mʊ́a.

-mwa (infinitive kumwa, perfect -mwele)

1. to drink

Sanderson notes that this verb is the "modern Yao for -ng'wa" in 1922. Considering that -ng'wa does not appear in the Dikishonale ya Ŵakulijiganya, it is possible that the original variant has died out. Perhaps the Yao adopted this variant (-mwa) when they migrated from Mozambique to Malawi, and this has entirely replaced the old variant.

• -mwesya (“to cause to drink”)

• Ciyawo - English Dictionary: Dikishonale ja Ŵakulijiganya
• Rev. Alexander Hetherwick, M.A., F.R.G.S. (1902), A Handbook of the Yao Language‎^[1], Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 245
• Meredith Sanderson, M.R.C.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. (1922), A Yao Grammar‎^[2], Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 178