Clipping ofEnglishQuapaw.
qua
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forQuapaw.
FromLatinquā(“in the capacity of”).
qua
- (chiefly philosophy)as; in thecapacity of; acting as
1920,T. S. Eliot, “Hamlet and His Problems”, inThe Sacred Wood:Qua work of art, the work of art cannot be interpreted; there is nothing to interpret; we can only criticize it according to standards, in comparison to other works of art;[…]
- 1954:Gilbert Ryle,Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953,dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
- As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodiesqua percipient.
- 1962:Norman Malcolm;Dreaming; chapter nine: “Judgments in Sleep”, page 39{1}; chapter twelve: “The Concept of Dreaming”, page 68{2} (1977 paperback reprint; Routledge & Kegan Paul; ISBN 0‒7100‒3836‒4 (c), 0‒7100‒8434‒X (p))
- {1} For sleepqua sleep has no experiential content: it cannot turn out, as remarked before, that a man was not asleep because he wasnot having some experience or other.
- {2} I am denying that a dreamqua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’.
2003, Roy Porter,Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published2004, page458:It wasqua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.
- 2005: Ulfelder, Jay.Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes. International Political Science Review, 26(3), p318. Retrieved 1615 240810 fromhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/30039035.pdf?acceptTC=true.
- "In essence, military regimes are autocracies in which the militaryqua organization performs many of the functions performed by the ruling party in single-party regimes."
- 2009: Ken Levy,Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Georgia Law Review, p. 24.
- Blamequa attitude is the feeling or belief that an individual has committed a wrongdoing, usually a wrongful action and/or harm, and can be reasonably expected not to have committed this wrongdoing. Blamequa practice is the public expression of this attitude – usually by means of censure (written or verbal criticism) or punishment. Generally, the morally worse the wrongdoing, the more severe the censure/punishment.
2022 March 29, Dwight Garner, “In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:Sometimes, though, you pick up a novel and it makes your skin prickle — not necessarily because it’s a great novelqua novel, which you can’t know until the end, but because of the velocity of its microperceptions.
Imitative.
qua
- Thecawing sound of acrow.
1909,The Country Gentleman, volume74, page266:Crows have a language of their own in a wild state that any observant person can learn.[…] Then he would straighten his head back and, with the most comical bowing and wagging, say: "Qua qua qua, qua qua qua" for perhaps a minute.
2012, Jaman Tree,I Crow River:Qua... qua... qua... out of the blue I hear the crows cawing with great fanfare as they announce to the world at large that they are here by my side and intend to probe into my being.
qua
- alternative spelling ofcua
qua
- as,qua(in the capacity of)
- (as a preposition)by virtue of(because of)
FromLatinquā(“in the capacity of, by which, as far as”).
qua
- regarding,concerning,in terms of
Qua gezondheid ben ik helemaal in orde.- In terms of health, I'm perfectly fine.
Borrowed fromLatinquā.
qua [withdativeor(alternatively when governing a noun accompanied by an adjective or article, rarely otherwise)genitive]
- (formal)by
- Synonyms:durch,mittels,kraft
- qua Gesetz ―by law
2018, Kevin Rick,Verbraucherpolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Nomos Verlag,→ISBN, page84:Die Regierung von Individuen oder Kollektiven, sei esqua Verordnung oderqua Appell, ist deshalb stets an das „Regieren des Selbst“ gekoppelt, an durch das Subjekt aktiv anzueignende Selbsttechniken bzw. Technologien des Selbst.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
Sometimes used with the genitive:
- qua Amtes ―ex officio (literally, “by office”)
- “qua” inDuden online
- “qua” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
The suffix has been used since around the 17th and 18th century. Since "hong" (行) merchants were technically officials of the lowest (9th) rank, the suffixqua was added to their names in honour of their positions in theQing government. The spelling may possibly be fromSpanish orthography.
qua
- Irregular romanization of官(“official”)
- Formerly added to names ofhong merchants (i.e. "Powqua," "Chinqua").
Borrowed fromFrenchqui,que,Italianche,Spanishque, ultimately fromLatinquī /quid.
qua (pluralqui)
- (relative pronoun)which
- Esis tre jentila homoqua helpis ni. ―It was a nice manwho helped us.
- (interrogative pronoun)who
- Qua esas ita kerlo? ―Who is that guy?(direct question)
- Me ne konocasqua ita esas. ―I don't knowwho that is.(indirect question)
qua
- (interrogative determiner)what
- Qua kamizo vu portos? ―What shirt are you going to wear?
FromVulgar Latin*eccum hāc. Related toPortuguesecá,Spanishacá,Frenchçà.
The original geminated-cc-, though lost in the standard language, is still found in most regional Italian varieties.
qua
- here
- Synonym:qui
- For differences betweenqua andqui, see notes atqui.
- qua inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- qua2 in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Adverb declined fromquī.Diachronically, fromProto-Indo-European*kʷéh₂; compareAncient Greekπῇ(pēî),πῆ(pê,“which way, how”) and Latinquam.
quā (notcomparable)
- where(on whichside; at or in whichplace; in whatdirection; by whatway)
- quā... eā... ―where... there...
- as(in thecapacity orcharacter of)
- ēnsquā ēns ―beingas being
- how(in what way; by whatmethod; to whatdegree orextent)
- (indefinite)aftersī,nisi,num,nē: in any way,anyhow
29BCE – 19BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid1.17–18:
- hoc rēgnum dea gentibus esse –
sī quā fāta sinant – iam tum tenditque fovetque.- The goddess already aims and fondly hopes that this [city] –if in any way the fates allow it – [will] be the seat of ruling power over [all] nations.
[In other words, long before the founding of Rome the goddess Juno wanted Carthage to become the imperial city. See:Juno (mythology);Carthage.]
Inflection ofquī(“who, which”).
quā
- ablativefemininesingular ofquī
qua
- inflection ofquī:
- nominativefemininesingular
- nominative/accusativeneuterplural
- qua is commonly used forquae in the above forms of the indefinite variant of the pronounquī.
Inflection ofquis(“anyone, something, anyone, anything”).
quā
- ablativefemininesingular ofquis
- “qua”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “qua”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “qua”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) how old are you:qua aetate es?
- (ambiguous) moral science; ethics:philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
- (ambiguous) the connection of thought:ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
- (ambiguous) to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion:ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
- (ambiguous) the question at issue:res, de qua nunc quaerimus, quaeritur
- Allen, Joseph Henry; Greenough, James B. (1903),Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar for schools and colleges: founded on comparative grammar, Boston: Ginn and Company,§ 149
qua
- (Northern)alternative form ofwho(“who”,nominative)
FromLatinquā.
qua
- qua;as, incapacity of
- “qua” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
- “qua” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
FromLatinquā.
qua
- qua;as, incapacity of
FromOld Norsehvat, fromProto-Germanic*hwat.
qua
- obsolete spelling ofkva
1695,Norske Vers til Kronprintsens Bilager, volume21, quoted inSyn og Segn, page272:Qua skall eg mejra seja[?]- What more shall I say[?]
- “qua” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.
qua
- here
qua (瓜)
- lemon
- squash
𫇥瓜曾𫇥荳- Bioócqua tằng bioóc thúa
- squash flowers and pea flowers
qua
- pillar
- slâuqua ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006),Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
- Lương Bèn (2011),Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][3][4] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor,Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày][5] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
Sino-Vietnamese word from過(“pass”).Doublet ofquá.
qua
- through,across(from one side to the other)
- ô-tô chạyqua cầu ―the car crosses the bridge
- xe vượtqua đèo ―the car crosses the mountain pass
- nhìnqua cửa sổ ―to look through the window
- nhảyqua mương ―to hop across the ditch
- lậtqua trang khác ―to flip to another page
- by way of
- by means of,by,over,using
- nói chuyệnqua điện thoại ―to converse over the telephone
- học tậpqua kinh nghiệm ―to learn by experience
- hiểu biếtqua thực tế ―to understand through reality
qua
- last(most recent)
Đêmqua chớp bể mưa nguồn, hỏi người quân tử có buồn hay không?- literally, "Last night, it rained thunderously; I wonder, my love, if you are blue?"
(folk poetry)
- ago(before now)
1968,Ho Chi Minh,Thơ chúc Tết Mậu Thân:Xuân này hơn hẳn mấy xuânqua.- This year is better than many years past.
- (literally, “This year's spring is better than the last few.”)
qua• (戈)
- (intransitive) to havetranspire, totake place, tocome to pass
- taiqua nạn khỏi ―literally, "disaster to pass [and] ordeal to be relieved"
- nhắc lại việc đãqua ―to recall events that have transpired
- (intransitive) togoover to; tospend time at
Ông ấyqua Pháp dự một hội nghị.- He went over to France for a conference.
- (transitive) tosurvive
Bà cụ khóqua được đêm nay.- The old woman is unlikely to survive the night.
- (transitive) toescape, toelude
Mọi việc trong cơ quan khôngqua được sự theo dõi của ông ta.- Nothing in the agency can escape his watchful eye.
- (transitive) tocross(to move relatively); totraverse
Qua cầu dừng bước trông cầu, cầu bao nhiêu nhịp em sầu bấy nhiêu.- literally, "[As I] cross the bridge, [I] stop to look at it; my sorrows multiply with the number of its arches."
(folk poetry)
- (transitive) to go to thefront of
Qua đình ngả nón trông đình, đình bao nhiêu ngói thương mình bấy nhiêu.- literally, "[As I] enter the [courtyard] of theđình (Vietnamese communal houses), [I] tip mynón (leaf hat) to take in the scenery; my self-pity multiplies with the number of tiles on its roof."
(folk poetry)
- (transitive) totrump, tooutweigh, toprevail over
- khôn chẳng qua lẽ, khỏe chẳng qua lời ―literally, "Shrewdness can't trump rightousness; brute strength can't trump wise words." / It is advisable to respond with temperance, rather than with cunningness or force.
- (intransitive) todrift past; toelapse
- Ngàyqua ngày ―day after day
qua
- across(from one side to the other),through
- nhìnqua ―to look past
- nhảyqua ―to hop across
- in passing
- dặnqua mấy lời ―to give a few words of advice in passing
- cursorily,superficially
- biếtqua thế thôi ―to know a thing or two about it
- đọcqua vài trang ―toskim over a few pages
- completely
1820,Nguyễn Du,Truyện Kiều [The Tale of Kieu]:Trảiqua một cuộc bể dâu / Những điều trông thấy mà đau đớn lòng.- Through thewhirligig of time / There are events which wrench one’s heart
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading ofChinese我(SV:ngã); borrowed from a Sinitic variety with denasalization.
qua
- (archaic, men's speech or Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam)I;me
Hôm quaqua bảoqua qua màqua không qua. Hôm nayqua không bảoqua qua màqua lại qua.- Yesterday ah said ah'd cuhm over but ah ain't cuhm. Today ah ain't say ah'd cuhm over but ah came.
Qua đã nói với bậu, nhưng bậu chẳng nghe.- Ah told ya but ya wouldn’t listen.
qua
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of戈
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of冎
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of瘑
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of蜗
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of薖
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of檛
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of騧
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of渦
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of堝
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of瘸
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of簻
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of咼
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of撾
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of濄
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of胍
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of過
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of㧓
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of瓜
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of叧
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of剮
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of蝸
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of緺
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of髽
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of找
