mwa

1. Alternative spelling ofmwah

mwa (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling ofmwah

• WMA,awm,MAW,maw,WAM,Maw

mwa

1. (Mpakwithi)fire

• Terry Crowley,The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

FromFrenchmois.

mwa

1. month

FromProto-Bantu*-ɲóa.

• IPA^(key): /mʷa/

-mwa (infinitivekumwá)

1. drink
2. (of medicine or pills)swallow,consume

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative:-mwera

• IPA^(key): /moa/

mwa

1. house

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /mwɑ/

mwa

1. (informal)An expression of indifference:meh

   Meestal heb ik zoiets van “mwa, niet zo belangrijk”.

   Usually I am like, “meh, not that important.”

mwa (notcomparable)

1. (informal, predicative)mediocre

   De kipfilet was goed maar de saus was vies en de frietjes warenmwa.

   The chicken filet was good but the sauce tasted bad and the french fries weremediocre.

Occurs mainly as thecomplement of acopular verb such aszijn(“to be”) orvinden(“to find”).

FromFrenchmois(“month”).

• IPA^(key): /mwa/

mwa

1. month

FromFrenchmoi(“me”).

mwa (nominativemo)

1. me(first-person singular objective personal pronoun)

-mwá (infinitivekumwá)

1. Karanga andManyika form of-nwa

mwa

1. mu class_(XVIII) inflected form of-a

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