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toa

See also: tóa, Tōa, töa, toả, to'a, To'a, tòa, and тоа

English

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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toa (plural toas)

  1. A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.
    • 2000, Lin Onus, Urban dingo: the art and life of Lin Onus, 1948-1996, page 21:
      These thirty-four toa constructions, made from urban debris and ceremoniously installed in a circular (or sometimes oval) bed of sand, bring together the multiple themes centred on reclamation that preoccupied his life.
    • 2005, Bill Arthur, Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia‎[1], page 22:
      It seems that on leaving one place people would place a toa in the ground to show other people where they had gone.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Maori toa.

Noun

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toa (plural toas)

  1. (New Zealand) A brave warrior.
    • 1902, Journal of the Polynesian Society‎[2], volume 11, page 211:
      The toa or brave who distinguished himself was thought very highly of.
    • 2011, Robert N. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution‎[3], page 261:
      Thus in Polynesia, the toa (warrior) could challenge the ariki (priest/chief).

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Maori toa. Doublet of koa.

Noun

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toa (countable and uncountable, plural toas)

  1. A Polynesian tree of the genus Casuarina, or its wood.
    • 1817, William Mariner, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific‎[4], page 302:
      It happens that nature has assembled in this spot, not only the wildest profusion of the vegetable kingdom, over which the lofty toa tree stands pre-eminent, but also objects of another description, overhanging rocks, hollow-sounding caverns, and steep precipices, calculated to give an aspect as bold and sublime as the imagination can well conceive, and constituting a species of scenery, which, in proportion as it is more rare, is more admired by the natives.
    • 1882, John Shertzer Hittell, The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast of North America‎[5], page 604:
      The toa wood of the South Pacific islands is similar to Eastern walnut in color and texture, but is much finer in figure.

Anagrams

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Asturian

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Determiner

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toa f

  1. feminine singular of tou

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin tua, feminine of tuus.

Pronoun

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toa f (masculine to)

  1. your; second-person feminine singular possessive pronoun

Ese

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Noun

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toa

  1. water

References

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  • Jim and Judy Parlier. Managalasi phonology. 2008 [1963].

Estonian

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Noun

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toa

  1. genitive singular of tuba

Fijian

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Noun

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toa

  1. fowl

Galician

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Etymology 1

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Attested circa 1450. From toar, from Old French toer, from Old Norse toga,[1] from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to pull”). Compare English tow.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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toa f (plural toas)

  1. towrope
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “toar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Etymology 2

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Verb

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toa

  1. inflection of toar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Garo

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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toa

  1. (transitive) to measure the length, weight
  2. (intransitive) to be nice.
  3. to be delicious

References

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  • Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎[6], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 388

Indonesian

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Etymology

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A genericized trademark of the Japanese trademark TOA, from the first two characters (東亞(とうあ) (tōa, “East Asia”))) of its former name (東亞特殊電機(とうあとくしゅでんき) (tōatokushudenki)).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈto.a]
  • Hyphenation: toa

Noun

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toa

  1. (dialect, informal) sound system, including megaphone
    Toa di sekolah kami sangat nyaring.
    The megaphone in our school is very loud.

Maori

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Polynesian *toqa (compare Hawaiian koa and Samoan toa).

Adjective

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toa

  1. brave.

Noun

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toa

  1. a warrior.
  2. courage
  3. a male.

Verb

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toa

  1. to win

Etymology 2

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From English store.

Noun

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toa

  1. a store or shop.

References

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  • “toa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -oɐ
  • Hyphenation: to‧a

Etymology 1

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Noun

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toa f (plural toas)

  1. towrope
    Synonym: sirga
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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toa

  1. inflection of toar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Rarotongan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *toa (compare Hawaiian koa), from Proto-Oceanic *toRas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teRas (compare Indonesian teras).

 
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Noun

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toa

  1. A tree with dark-colored, hard wood, Casuarina equisetifolia.

Samoan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *toqa (compare Hawaiian koa).

Noun

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toa

  1. warrior
  2. hero

Adjective

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toa

  1. heroic
  2. brave
  3. courageous

Spanish

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Verb

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toa

  1. inflection of toar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Verb

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-toa (infinitive kutoa)

  1. to give (out)
  2. to produce
  3. to publish
  4. to offer
    kutoa rushwa ― to offer a bribe
  5. to put out, to remove
  6. (reflexive) to withdraw, to retire
    • 2022, Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar: Chimbuko, Misingi na Maendeleo, Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, →ISBN:
      […] kufuatia kujitoa kwa Tanzania Zanzibar katika Bodi ya Mitihani ya Afrika Mashariki mwaka 1970 na Tanzania Bara mwaka 1971.
      […] following the withdrawal of Zanzibar from the East African Examinations Council in 1970 and of Mainland Tanzania in 1971.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of -toa
Positive present -natoa
Subjunctive -toe
Negative -toi
Imperative singular toa
Infinitives
Positive kutoa
Negative kutotoa
Imperatives
Singular toa
Plural toeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hutoa
Positive past positive subject concord + -litoa
Negative past negative subject concord + -kutoa
Positive present (positive subject concord + -natoa)
Singular Plural
1st person ninatoa/natoa tunatoa
2nd person unatoa mnatoa
3rd person m-wa(I/II) anatoa wanatoa
other classes positive subject concord + -natoa
Negative present (negative subject concord + -toi)
Singular Plural
1st person sitoi hatutoi
2nd person hutoi hamtoi
3rd person m-wa(I/II) hatoi hawatoi
other classes negative subject concord + -toi
Positive future positive subject concord + -tatoa
Negative future negative subject concord + -tatoa
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -toe)
Singular Plural
1st person nitoe tutoe
2nd person utoe mtoe
3rd person m-wa(I/II) atoe watoe
other classes positive subject concord + -toe
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sitoe
Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngetoa
Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singetoa
Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalitoa
Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalitoa
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -atoa)
Singular Plural
1st person natoa twatoa
2nd person watoa mwatoa
3rd person m-wa(I/II) atoa watoa
m-mi(III/IV) watoa yatoa
ji-ma(V/VI) latoa yatoa
ki-vi(VII/VIII) chatoa vyatoa
n(IX/X) yatoa zatoa
u(XI) watoa see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) kwatoa
pa(XVI) patoa
mu(XVIII) mwatoa
Perfect positive subject concord + -metoa
"Already" positive subject concord + -meshatoa
"Not yet" negative subject concord + -jatoa
"If/When" positive subject concord + -kitoa
"If not" positive subject concord + -sipotoa
Consecutive katoa / positive subject concord + -katoa
Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -katoe
Object concord (indicative positive)
Singular Plural
1st person -nitoa -tutoa
2nd person -kutoa -watoa/-kutoeni/-watoeni
3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mtoa -watoa
m-mi(III/IV) -utoa -itoa
ji-ma(V/VI) -litoa -yatoa
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kitoa -vitoa
n(IX/X) -itoa -zitoa
u(XI) -utoa see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kutoa
pa(XVI) -patoa
mu(XVIII) -mutoa
Reflexive -jitoa
Relative forms
General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -toa- + relative marker)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -toaye -toao
m-mi(III/IV) -toao -toayo
ji-ma(V/VI) -toalo -toayo
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -toacho -toavyo
n(IX/X) -toayo -toazo
u(XI) -toao see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -toako
pa(XVI) -toapo
mu(XVIII) -toamo
Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -toa)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -yetoa -otoa
m-mi(III/IV) -otoa -yotoa
ji-ma(V/VI) -lotoa -yotoa
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chotoa -vyotoa
n(IX/X) -yotoa -zotoa
u(XI) -otoa see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kotoa
pa(XVI) -potoa
mu(XVIII) -motoa
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

Derived terms

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Clipping of toalett, from French toilette.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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toa c

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of toalett (“toilet; bathroom”)
    Jag måste gå på toa!
    I need to go to the bathroom!

Declension

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Declension of toa
nominative genitive
singular indefinite toa toas
definite toan toans
plural indefinite toor toors
definite toorna toornas

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Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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toa

  1. to extend the hand, to reach out

Conjugation

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Conjugation of toa
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person totoa fotoa mitoa
2nd person notoa nitoa
3rd
person 		masculine otoa itoa
yotoa (archaic)
feminine motoa
neuter itoa

References

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

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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toa

  1. a railroad car/railway carriage

Etymology 2

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From Teochew 單 / 单. Compare Thai ตั๋ว (dtǔua), Khmer តួ (tuə).

Noun

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toa

  1. (medicine, pharmacy) prescription (written order for the administration of a medicine)
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed from French toi.

Pronoun

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toa

  1. (obsolete, sometimes humorous, originally towards a French speaker) you
    Coordinate term: moa

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