bua

1. (international standards)ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3language code forBuryat.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Buryat terms

Inherited fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*buaq.

bua

1. fruit

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bua

1. sheep

• Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan, Kouakou Kouame.Parlons baoulé: langue et culture de la Côte d’Ivoire. L’Harmattan, 2004.→ISBN

• buang

• IPA^(key):/buˈʔa/ [buˈʔa]
• Hyphenation:bu‧a

bùa (intensifiedbuahon,Basahan spellingᜊᜓᜀ)

1. crazy;insane

   Synonyms:kapay,loko,ribong

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈbu.ə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈbu.a]

Childish variant ofbuba(“pimple”), fromMedieval Latinbūbō(“bubo”), fromAncient Greekβουβών(boubṓn,“groin, swelling”).

bua f (pluralbues)

1. pimple
2. (childish)badness

• bona bua
• mala bua

Alteration ofgúa.

bua f (pluralbues)

1. (archaic,nautical,metrology) a unit oflength used in measuring ships. Approximately the same as ayard, it was defined as 4pams(“spans”)

• cana(“fathom”)
• pam(“span”)

• “bua” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bua”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.
• “bua” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bua” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

bua

1. goat

FromProto-Turkic*buka.

bua (definite accusative[please provide],plural[please provide])

1. bull

bua

1. topierce

FromPortuguesevoar. Cognate withKabuverdianubua.

bua

1. tofly (in the sky)

• buaidh(superseded)

FromOld Irishbúaid, fromProto-Celtic*boudi; compareScottish Gaelicbuaidh,Bretonbuz,Welshbudd.

• IPA^(key):/bˠuə/
• (Aran)IPA^(key):/bˠuː/^[1]

bua m (genitive singularbua,nominative pluralbuanna)

1. (sports, competition)victory,win
2. talent,gift,faculty,forte(ability)
3. merit
4. destiny

• beir bua,beir bua agus beannacht
• ollbhua

bua

1. analyticpresentsubjunctive ofbuaigh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búaid”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaiḋ”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page95
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bua”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bua”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bua”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025

• IPA^(key):/ˈbu.a/
• Rhymes:-ua
• Hyphenation:bù‧a

bua f (pluralbue)

1. (childish) amildwound;boo-boo,owie

   Synonym:feritina

• bau

FromPortuguesevoar.

bua

1. tofly (in the sky)

Likely fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*sV-wa.

bua

1. teeth

• Debbarma, Binoy (2001) “bua”, inConcise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary‎^[1], Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC,→ISBN, page27

Onomatopoeia

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈbu.a/,[ˈbuä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈbu.a/,[ˈbuːä]

bua f sg (genitivebuae);first declension

1. The sound made byinfants when asking for theirdrink;baba.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• vinibua

• papa
• pappa

• “bua”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

bua

1. sarong;blanket

Inherited fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*buaq.

bua

1. fruit

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*buaq, fromProto-Austronesian*buaq.

bua (mutated formmbua)

1. fruit

• mowua

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905.Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 37.

• bui(old spelling or dialectal)

bua f

1. definitesingular ofbu

FromProto-Austronesian*buaq (compareMalaybuah,Hawaiianhua).

bua

1. fruit

bua

1. tospeak

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bua classV (pluralmabua classVI)

1. stalk(stem or main axis of a plant)

Frombu +‎-a.

bua (presentbuar,preteritebuade,supinebuat,imperativebua)

1. (ambitransitive) toboo

• utbuad

• bua inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bua inSvensk ordbok (SO)

Cognate withWest Makianbual(“termite”).

• IPA^(key):[ˈbu.a]

bua

1. atermite

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

• IPA^(key):/búa/

bua

1. tospeak

• IPA^(key):/bua/

bua

1. toskin an animal

FromProto-Oceanic*puaq(“areca nut, fruit”) with irregular loss of*q and voicing, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*buaq, fromProto-Austronesian*buaq.

• IPA^(key):/bua/

bua

1. areca nut

• 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.