# koa
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian koa. Doublet of toa.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kəʊə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

koa (plural koas or koa)
* A large tree of species Acacia koa (family Fabaceae) which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.
** 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 59:As you get higher, native vegetation takes over, so a prospect might be framed by the dangling leaves of the beautiful koa tree, each leaf a gently curved, trembling sickle.
** 2007 March 18, Anne Eisenberg, “How to Soften the Edges of Technology”, in New York Times‎:The outer frame is made of koa and maple.
** 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 122:At her funeral, Likelike's body was placed in a polished koa coffin, adorned with sprays of gardenia […].

#### Derived terms

* koa finch
* koa wilt

#### See also

* koa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* A-OK, AOK, Kao, OAK, Oka, oak, oka

## Ajië
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [koa]

### Noun

koa
* rain

### References

* Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
* Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Bavarian
### Etymology

Cognate with German kein.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koɐ̯/

### Determiner

koa
* no (negation of nouns and adjectives)

#### See also

| | m | n | f | pl |
| Nominative | koa (determiner) koana (pronoun) | koa (determiner) koans (pronoun) | koa (determiner) koane (pronoun) | koa (determiner) koane (det./pron.) |
| Accusative | koan | koa (determiner) koans (pronoun) | koa (determiner) koane (pronoun) | koa (determiner) koane (det./pron.) |
| Dative | koam | koam | koana | koane |

## Bola
### Noun

koa
* grasshopper

### References

* Brent Wiebe, Bola (Bola-Bakovi) Language Organized Phonology Data, p. 3

## Garo
### Verb

koa
* to stitch

## Hawaiian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *toa (compare Maori toa), from Proto-Oceanic *toRas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teRas (compare Indonesian teras (“heart, pith (of wood)”)).

#### Noun

koa
* warrior
* koa (tree)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *toqa (compare Maori toa (“brave”)).

#### Verb

koa
* (stative) to be brave, military

##### Derived terms

* Kekoa

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Chinese, probably Hokkien 卦 (kòa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkoa]
* Hyphenation: koa

### Noun

koa (first-person possessive koaku, second-person possessive koamu, third-person possessive koanya)
* (gaming) a Chinese card game.

#### Alternative forms

* kua

### Further reading

* “koa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Lokono
### Noun

koa
* horn

### References

* de Goeje, C. H. (1928) The Arawak Language of Guiana‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 250

## Tongan
### Noun

koa
* soap, foam, lather