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bua

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bua"

Translingual

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Symbol

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bua

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Buryat.

Bakumpai

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.

Noun

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bua

  1. fruit

Baoule

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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bua

  1. sheep

References

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  • Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan, Kouakou Kouame. Parlons baoulé: langue et culture de la Côte d’Ivoire. L’Harmattan, 2004. →ISBN

Bikol Central

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bu‧a
  • IPA(key): /buˈʔa/, [buˈʔa]

Adjective

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bùa

  1. crazy; insane
    Synonyms: kapay, loko, ribong

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Childish variant of buba (“pimple”), from Medieval Latin būbō (“bubo”), from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

Noun

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bua f (plural bues)

  1. pimple
  2. (childish) badness
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Etymology 2

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Alteration of gúa.

Noun

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bua f (plural bues)

  1. (archaic, nautical, metrology) a unit of length used in measuring ships. Approximately the same as a yard, it was defined as 4 pams (“spans”)

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  • cana (“fathom”)
  • pam (“span”)

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Dagbani

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Noun

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bua

  1. goat

Gagauz

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *buka.

Noun

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bua (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. ox

Garo

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Verb

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bua

  1. to pierce

Guinea-Bissau Creole

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Etymology

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From Portuguese voar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bua.

Verb

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bua

  1. to fly (in the sky)

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish búaid, from Proto-Celtic *boudi; compare Scottish Gaelic buaidh, Breton buz, Welsh budd.

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Noun

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bua m (genitive singular bua, nominative plural buanna)

  1. (sports, competition) victory, win
  2. talent, gift, faculty, forte (ability)
  3. merit
  4. destiny

Declension

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Declension of bua

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bua buanna
Vocative a bhua a bhuanna
Genitive bua buanna
Dative bua buanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bua na buanna
Genitive an bhua na mbuanna
Dative leis an mbua

don bhua

leis na buanna

Derived terms

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Verb

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bua

  1. analytic present subjunctive of buaigh

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bua bhua mbua
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.a/
  • Rhymes: -ua
  • Hyphenation: bù‧a

Noun

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bua f (plural bue)

  1. (childish) pain, discomfort, boo-boo, owie

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Kabuverdianu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese voar.

Verb

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bua

  1. to fly (in the sky)

Kokborok

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Etymology

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Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa.

Noun

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bua

  1. teeth

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  • Debbarma, Binoy (2001) “bua”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary‎[1], Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, →ISBN, page 27

Latin

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeia

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Noun

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bua f sg (genitive buae); first declension

  1. The sound made by infants when asking for their drink; baba.

Declension

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First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative bua
Genitive buae
Dative buae
Accusative buam
Ablative buā
Vocative bua
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References

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Lindu

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Noun

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bua

  1. sarong; blanket

Ngaju

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.

Noun

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bua

  1. fruit

Nias

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Noun

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bua (mutated form mbua)

  1. fruit

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References

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  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 37.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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  • bui (old spelling or dialectal)

Noun

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bua f

  1. definite singular of bu

Puyuma

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *buaq (compare Malay buah, Hawaiian hua).

Noun

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bua

  1. fruit

Sotho

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Verb

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bua

  1. to speak

Swahili

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Noun

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bua (ma class, plural mabua)

  1. stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)

Swedish

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Etymology

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From bu +‎ -a.

Verb

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bua (present buar, preterite buade, supine buat, imperative bua)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to boo

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bua (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive bua buas
Supine buat buats
Imperative bua —
Imper. plural1 buen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative buar buade buas buades
Ind. plural1 bua buade buas buades
Subjunctive2 bue buade bues buades
Participles
Present participle buande
Past participle —
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Ternate

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Etymology

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Cognate with West Makian bual (“termite”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bua

  1. a termite

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tswana

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bua

  1. to speak

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bua

  1. to skin an animal

Uneapa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *puaq (“areca nut, fruit”) with irregular loss of *q and voicing, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bua

  1. areca nut

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