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bawa

See also: Bawa, ɓawa, and baŵa

Garawa

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Noun

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bawa

  1. older sibling

References

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  • Ilana Mushin, A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)

Hausa

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /báː.wàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [báː.wàː]

Noun

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bāwā̀ m (feminine bâiwā, plural bāyī, possessed form bāwàn)

  1. slave

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay bawa, from Classical Malay bawa, which was first attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD with the Old Malay mava in inflected form mamāwa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba, from Proto-Austronesian *baba. Compare to Old Javanese wawa (“to bring, to carry”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbä.wä]
  • Hyphenation: ba‧wa

Verb

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bawa (base-imperative bawa, active membawa, passive dibawa, involuntary terbawa)

  1. to carry

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bawa (meng-, transitive)
Root bawa
Active Involuntary /
Perfective 		Passive Basic /
Imperative 		Jussive
Active membawa terbawa dibawa bawa bawalah
Locative membawai terbawai dibawai bawai bawailah
Causative / Applicative1 membawakan terbawakan dibawakan bawakan bawakanlah
Causative
Active memperbawa terperbawa diperbawa perbawa perbawalah
Locative memperbawai terperbawai diperbawai perbawai perbawailah
Causative / Applicative1 memperbawaikan terperbawakan diperbawakan perbawakan perbawakanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

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Kavalan

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Noun

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bawa

  1. boat

Makasar

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baqbaq.

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Noun

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bawa (Lontara spelling ᨅᨓ)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Malay

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Classical Malay bawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba, from Proto-Austronesian *baba. Compare to Old Javanese wawa (“to bring, to carry”).

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (mava) in inflected form mamāwa.

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bawa (Jawi spelling باوا)

  1. to carry.
  2. to take or lead someone to a certain place.
    Tolong bawa saya ke sana.
    Please take me there.
  3. to cause something.
  4. to involve into a certain event.
  5. (informal) to drive a vehicle
    Bawa elok-elok kereta di jalan.
    Drive the car carefully on the road.

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Maranao

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba.

Verb

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bawa

  1. to carry (as on the back)

Southern Ndebele

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Verb

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-bawa?

  1. to request, to ask

Inflection

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Swahili

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Noun

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bawa (ma class, plural mabawa)

  1. Alternative form of ubawa

Tagalog

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Noun

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bawa (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜏ)

  1. diminution; mitigation

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Determiner

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bawa (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜏ) (obsolete)

  1. each; every
    Synonyms: bawat, kada

See also

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Further reading

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  • “bawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Ternate

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Etymology

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From Malay bawang.

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Noun

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bawa

  1. onion

References

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

Waskia

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Noun

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bawa

  1. brother

References

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  • Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages
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