bua
Translingual edit
Symbol edit
bua
Bakumpai edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.
Noun edit
bua
Baoule edit
Pronunciation edit
(file)
Noun edit
bua
References edit
- Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan, Kouakou Kouame. Parlons baoulé: langue et culture de la Côte d’Ivoire. L’Harmattan, 2004. →ISBN
Bikol Central edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bùa
Derived terms edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Childish variant of buba (“pimple”), from Medieval Latin būbō (“bubo”), from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).
Noun edit
bua f (plural bues)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Alteration of gúa.
Noun edit
bua f (plural bues)
- (archaic, nautical, metrology) a unit of length used in measuring ships. Approximately the same as a yard, it was defined as 4 pams (“spans”)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “bua” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bua”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bua” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dagbani edit
Noun edit
bua
Gagauz edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *buka.
Noun edit
bua (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
Garo edit
Verb edit
bua
- to pierce
Guinea-Bissau Creole edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese voar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bua.
Verb edit
bua
- to fly (in the sky)
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish búaid, from Proto-Celtic *boudi; compare Scottish Gaelic buaidh, Breton buz, Welsh budd.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bua m (genitive singular bua, nominative plural buanna)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
bua
- analytic present subjunctive of buaigh
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bua | bhua | mbua |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 búaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaiḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 95
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “bua” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “bua” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bua f (plural bue)
- (childish) pain, discomfort, boo-boo, owie
Anagrams edit
Kabuverdianu edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese voar.
Verb edit
bua
- to fly (in the sky)
Kokborok edit
Etymology edit
Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa.
Noun edit
bua
References edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Onomatopoeia
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bua f sg (genitive buae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | bua |
Genitive | buae |
Dative | buae |
Accusative | buam |
Ablative | buā |
Vocative | bua |
Related terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- “bua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Lindu edit
Noun edit
bua
Ngaju edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.
Noun edit
bua
Nias edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.
Noun edit
bua (mutated form mbua)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 37.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
- bui (old spelling or dialectal)
Noun edit
bua f
Puyuma edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Austronesian *buaq (compare Malay buah, Hawaiian hua).
Noun edit
bua
Sotho edit
Verb edit
bua
- to speak
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
- stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
bua (present buar, preterite buade, supine buat, imperative bua)
- (transitive, intransitive) to boo
Conjugation edit
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. |
Derived terms edit
References edit
Ternate edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with West Makian bual (“termite”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bua
- a termite
References edit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Tswana edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bua
- to speak
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bua
- to skin an animal
Uneapa edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Oceanic *puaq (“areca nut, fruit”) with irregular loss of *q and voicing, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bua
Further reading edit
- Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.