mashua

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From Spanish mashua, from an indigenous language. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Alternative forms edit

mashwa

Noun edit

mashua (plural mashuas)

A root vegetable grown in the Andes, Tropaeolum tuberosum.

Etymology 2 edit

From Swahili mashua (“boat”).

Alternative forms edit

machua, machwa, mashwa, muchwa

Noun edit

mashua (plural mashuas)

A type of simple fishing vessel found on the coast of East Africa.

Anagrams edit

mahuas

Sango edit

Noun edit

mashua

boat, steamboat

Swahili edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Omani Arabic ماشوة (māšūa ~ māšawwa), ultimately from an Indian source; compare Gujarati મછવો (machvo) (plural/oblique મછવા (machvā)), Marathi मचवा (macvā).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

mashua (n class, plural mashua)

a kind of single-masted fishing boat

Descendants edit

→ English: mashua

References edit

^ Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, page 8 of 1-10: “‘Boat’, Sw mashua. From OAr māšūa (R: 74) (but also māšūwe R:164), from an Indian language; cf. Gujarati macvā.”

[1] Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, page 8 of 1-10: “‘Boat’, Sw mashua. From OAr māšūa (R: 74) (but also māšūwe R:164), from an Indian language; cf. Gujarati macvā.”

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