# nawa
## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naˈwa/ [n̪aˈwa]
* Hyphenation: na‧wa

### Noun

nawá (Basahan spelling ᜈᜏ)
* birthmark
    Synonym: pamalit

## Fijian
### Adjective

nawa
* afloat, adrift (more specifically, sa nawa)

### Verb

nawa
* to float, to drift

## Herero
### Adverb

nawa
* well, nicely

## Japanese
### Romanization

nawa
* Rōmaji transcription of なわ

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* nawă

### Etymology

From Sanskrit नवन् (návan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

### Pronunciation

* (Johor-Selangor) IPA: /nawə/
* (Riau-Lingga) IPA: /nawa/
* Rhymes: -awə, -wə, -ə

### Numeral

nawa (Jawi spelling ناوا)
* nine

#### Synonyms

* sembilan / sĕmbilan / سمبيلن
* selapan / sĕlapan / سلاڤن

### Further reading

* “nawa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nāvis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈna.va/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ava
* Syllabification: na‧wa
* Homophone: Nawa

### Noun

nawa f (related adjective nawowy)
* (architecture) nave (the middle body of a church)
* (literary) country, state (sovereign polity)
    Synonyms: kraj, państwo
* (obsolete, nautical) craft, ship, vessel
    Synonym: statek

#### Declension
### Further reading

* nawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* nawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Sotho
### Noun

nawa class 9/10 (plural dinawa)
* bean

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-nawa (infinitive kunawa)
* to wash (a part of the body, especially the hands)

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -nawa :
| Positive present | -nanawa |
| Subjunctive | -nawe |
| Negative | -nawi |
| Imperative singular | nawa |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kunawa |
| Negative | kutonawa |
Imperatives :
| Singular | nawa |
| Plural | naweni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hunawa |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -linawa |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kunawa |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tanawa |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tanawa |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sinawe |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngenawa |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singenawa |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalinawa |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalinawa |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -menawa |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshanawa |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -janawa |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kinawa |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -siponawa |
| Consecutive | kanawa / positive subject concord + -kanawa |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kanawe |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

### See also

* -osha (“to wash (more general)”)

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /naˈwaʔ/ [n̪ɐˈwaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: na‧wa

#### Interjection

nawâ! (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜏ)
* (formal) Said in hope that something will happen: may it be so!; so be it!; let it be so!; indeed
    Synonyms: sana, harimanawari, harinawa

##### Derived terms

* harinawa
* siya nawa

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /naˈwa/ [n̪ɐˈwa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: na‧wa

#### Noun

nawá (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜏ) (obsolete)
* easiness
    Synonym: dali

##### Derived terms

* kanawa
* kanawa-nawa

### Further reading

* “nawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

### Anagrams

* awan

## Tboli
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nihawa.

### Noun

nawa
* feelings

## Tswana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈna.wa/

### Noun

nawa class 9 (plural dinawa)
* bean, pea
* (anatomy) clitoris