# kawa
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

kawa (uncountable)
* Alternative form of kava

### Etymology 2

From Maori [Term?].

#### Noun

kawa (uncountable)
* Maori customs and protocol.

### Anagrams

* Waka, waka

## Banjarese
### Verb

kawa
* can, be able

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Probably from Malay kawah.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ka‧wa

### Noun

kawa
* a large wok

#### Related terms

* kaha, kalaha

## Dibabawon Manobo
### Noun

kawà
* large iron pot

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.wa/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

kawa m (uncountable)
* Alternative spelling of caoua: coffee
* Piper methysticum (kava)
    Synonym: kava
* kava, beverage made from Piper methysticum
    Synonym: kava

### Further reading

* “kawa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Hiligaynon
### Noun

káwà
* boiler

## Japanese
### Romanization

kawa
* Rōmaji transcription of かわ

## Karao
### Noun

kawa
* middle; halfway

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish kawa

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.va/
* Rhymes: -ava
* Syllabification: ka‧wa

### Noun

kawa f (diminutive kôwka or kawulka or kawuszka)
* coffee

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Jan Trepczyk (1994) “kawa”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “kawa”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
* “kawa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Kayapó
### Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *kacû (“mortar”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kaˈwa]

### Noun

kawa
* mortar

## Lubuagan Kalinga
### Noun

kawa
* spider (large)

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kawa (cognates include Hawaiian ʻawa, Tongan kava and Samoan ʻava) from Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ (“potent root”) metathesis of Proto-Oceanic *wakaʀ (“root”), thus doublet of aka. Sense of plant lost with species introduced to Aotearoa dying out due to its cold climate. Sense of "marae protocol" seems to be a modern extension.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.wa/, [ˈkɐ.wɐ]

### Adjective

kawa
* sour

### Noun

kawa
* a ceremony to remove tapu from a new house or canoe
* karakia (“ritual chants”) and customs for the opening of new houses, canoes and other events
* marae protocol - customs of the marae and wharenui, particularly those related to formal activities such as pōhiri, speeches and mihimihi
* acid
* bitterness
* (obsolete) kava, plant brought by ancestors from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum.

### Verb

kawa
* to perform the kawa ceremony, open a new house

### Related terms

* kawakawa

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 139
* ↑ “Kawa, Kawakawa”, in Te Māra Reo, Benson Family Trust, 2023
* ↑ Crowley, Terry, Pawley, Andrew, Ross, Malcolm (1994) “Proto who drank kava?”, in Austronesian terminologies: Continuity and change, Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, page 95

### Further reading

* “kawa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.va/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ava
* Syllabification: ka‧wa
* Homophone: Kawa

### Etymology 1

Internationalism; compare Hungarian kávé, Serbo-Croatian kava, Turkish kahve, ultimately from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve). Doublet of café.

#### Noun

kawa f (diminutive kawka or kawcia or kawunia or kawusia, related adjective kawowy)
* (uncountable) coffee (beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water)
** (countable) coffee (serving of this beverage)
** (countable) coffee (act of drinking this beverage)
* (countable) coffee (any plant of the genus Coffea)
    Synonym: kawowiec
* (countable) coffee (seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called “beans” due to their shape)
* (countable) coffee-like beverage made from grains, seeds, or roots of various plants
* (countable) coffee (short social gathering where coffee is served)

##### Derived terms

* kawa na ławę
* biała kawa
* czarna kawa
* kawa po irlandzku
* kawa po turecku
* kawa po wiedeńsku
* kawa rozpuszczalna
* kawa zbożowa
* kawiara
* kawiarka
* kawiarnia
* kawiarniczka
* kawiarz
* kawosz
* kawoszka
* kawowiec

##### Related terms

* kawiarniany
* kawiareczka
* kawiarenka

##### Descendants

* → Yiddish: קאַווע (kave)

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Polish *kawa.

#### Noun

kawa f
* (obsolete or dialectal) jackdaw (any corvid of the genus Coloeus)
    Synonym: kawka

##### Declension
### Further reading

* kawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* kawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* kawa in PWN's encyclopedia

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

-kawa (infinitive kukawa)
* to delay, be late, tarry

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -kawa :
| Positive present | -nakawa |
| Subjunctive | -kawe |
| Negative | -kawi |
| Imperative singular | kawa |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kukawa |
| Negative | kutokawa |
Imperatives :
| Singular | kawa |
| Plural | kaweni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hukawa |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -likawa |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kukawa |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -takawa |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -takawa |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sikawe |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngekawa |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singekawa |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalikawa |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalikawa |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mekawa |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshakawa |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jakawa |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kikawa |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipokawa |
| Consecutive | kakawa / positive subject concord + -kakawa |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kakawe |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

##### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -kawia
** Causative: -kawisha

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

kawa class V (plural makawa class VI)
* cover (of food)

## Tagalog
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kawaq, possibly via Malay kawah. Compare Ilocano kawa, Hanunoo kawa, Bikol Central kawa, Cebuano kawa, Tausug kawa', and Javanese ꦏꦮꦃ (kawah).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈkawa/ [ˈkaː.wɐ]
* Rhymes: -awa
* Syllabification: ka‧wa

### Noun

kawa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏ)
* large caldron; large boiler or kettle
    Synonyms: kaldero, talyasi

#### See also

* kaldera

### Further reading

* “kawa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “kawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kawaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

### Anagrams

* waak, awak