kwa
Dumbea edit
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Noun edit
kwa
References edit
- 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.
Haitian Creole edit
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kwa
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kwa
Northern Sotho edit
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kwa
Pipil edit
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-kwa
Polish edit
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Interjection edit
kwa
- (usually reduplicated) quack; onomatopoeia for the sound of a duck
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Rwanda-Rundi edit
Verb edit
-kwá (infinitive gukwá, perfective -kôye)
Swahili edit
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
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kwa
Preposition edit
kwa
- by, with
- for
- from
- Makes fractions where the numerator is not one, in the format denominator kwa numerator.
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West Frisian edit
Preposition edit
kwa
- in terms of
- Sina is kwa ynwennertal it grutste lân op de wrâld. -- In terms of number of inhabitants, China is the greatest country in the world.