# vua
## Fijian
### Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *vua, from Proto-Oceanic *puaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

### Noun

vua
* fruit (part of plant)
* fruit (food)

### Verb

vua
* to bear fruit

### References

* Gatty, Ronald (2009) “vua”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 307

## Ido
### Etymology

From vu +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vua/

### Determiner

vua
* your: belonging to you (formal, singular)

## Pacoh
### Etymology

From Vietnamese vua.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vuə/

### Noun

vua
* king

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-dúʊda.

#### Verb

-vua (infinitive kuvua)
* Conversive form of -vaa: to undress

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -vua :
| Positive present | -navua |
| Subjunctive | -vue |
| Negative | -vui |
| Imperative singular | vua |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuvua |
| Negative | kutovua |
Imperatives :
| Singular | vua |
| Plural | vueni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huvua |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -livua |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuvua |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tavua |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tavua |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sivue |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngevua |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singevua |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalivua |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalivua |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mevua |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshavua |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -javua |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kivua |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipovua |
| Consecutive | kavua / positive subject concord + -kavua |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kavue |
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:
** Passive: -vuliwa (“to be undressed”)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-dùba.

#### Verb

-vua (infinitive kuvua)
* to fish

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -vua :
| Positive present | -navua |
| Subjunctive | -vue |
| Negative | -vui |
| Imperative singular | vua |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuvua |
| Negative | kutovua |
Imperatives :
| Singular | vua |
| Plural | vueni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huvua |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -livua |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuvua |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tavua |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tavua |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sivue |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngevua |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singevua |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalivua |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalivua |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mevua |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshavua |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -javua |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kivua |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipovua |
| Consecutive | kavua / positive subject concord + -kavua |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kavue |
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

* Nominal derivations:
** mvuvi (“fisherman”)
** uvuvi (“fishing”)

## Vietnamese
### Alternative forms

* (North Central Vietnam) bua (no lenition)

### Etymology

Based on the Vietic cognates and Nôm philologist evidence, an etymon with onset *t-p- can be reconstructed.
Cognate with Chut [Mày] tapuo¹, Muong [Mãn Đức] pua. Compare North Central Vietnamese bua (without lenition) and phân bua. Compare also Mang pua² and Tai Dam ꪜꪺ, both of which derived from an older form of Vietnamese.
Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經; c. 12 cent.) and Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集; 15th cent.) as 𢃊, composed of 司 (MC si) + 布 (MC puH) (modern SV: tư bố). Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese ꞗua (“king”) (already undergone lenition) in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).
See also the posthumous title of Phùng Hưng, 布蓋大王 (MC puH kajH dajH hjwang) (modern SV: Bố Cái Đại Vương), with the first two characters rendering words ancestral to modern vua ("monarch") and cái (“great”), equivalent to the Chinese 大王 next to it, i.e. the title is the phrase "great king/monarch" written in two languages.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [vuə˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [vuə˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [vuə˧˧] ~ [juə˧˧]
* Audio (Saigon):(file)

### Noun

(classifier vị, nhà, ông) vua • (𤤰, 𢃊, 𪻟)
* monarch (ruler)
    đức vua ― the king (respectful)
** Phan Châu Trinh Đạo đức và luân lí Đông Tây [Eastern and Western Ideas on Morality and Ethics]:
    Một nước bao nhiêu triệu dân mà chỉ giao phó quyền chính cho một ông vua thì chẳng là ngu xuẩn lắm ư? Gặp được ông vua thông minh còn e lo chưa hết bổn phận thay, huống là gặp phải anh vua u mê làm ròng những sự độc ác, cấm dân có ăn học không được lo việc nước, thì dân có ăn học không được lo việc nước, thì dân khốn khổ biết bao, và còn có ai dám ra mà gánh vác. Một nhà không ai lo chủ trương, một nước không ai lo chủ trương, thì nhà nước ấy làm sao không tan không mất được.A country with millions of subjects under the rule of a single monarch, does that not sound foolish? It's not even guaranteed a bright monarch can rule to his full capacity, so if there's a dim monarch who indulges in cruelty, who bans his educated subjects from contributing, those subjects can't contribute, everyone suffers, who would be willing to take responsibility then? A home without anyone taking charge, a country without anyone taking charge, is it surprising that it falls?
(classifier con) vua
* (chess) king

#### Usage notes

* This word is usually translated as "king", but in East Asian historical contexts, kings and queens such as Hùng Vương (雄王, “Hùng King”), Trưng Vương (徵王, “Queen Trưng”); some sorts of "lords" such as Lạc Long Quân (雒龍君, “Dragon Lord Lạc”); and emperors and empresses such as Mai Hắc Đế (梅黑帝, “Black Emperor Mai”), Lí Nam Đế (李南帝, “Southern Emperor Lí”), Lí Chiêu Hoàng (李昭皇, “Empress Lí Chiêu”) have all been generically referred to as vua. Effectively, this word is an umbrella term for different kinds of monarchs, such as vương/quốc vương (“king; sultan”), hoàng/đế/hoàng đế.
* Except the Emperor of Japan (thiên hoàng (literally “Heavenly Emperor”) or Nhật hoàng (literally “Japanese Emperor”)), tsars (sa hoàng (literally “Tsar Emperor”) or (Nga hoàng (literally “Russian emperor”)) and female monarchs (nữ hoàng (“queen regnant”, literally “empress regnant”)), most modern monarchs are called quốc vương.

#### Derived terms

* bánh vua
* cờ vua
* vua chúa
* vua tôi

### Adjective

vua • (𤤰, 𢃊, 𪻟)
* (of an insect) being a king
    mối vua ― a king termite
    ong vua ― a drone

### Descendants

* → Pacoh: vua

### See also

* quốc vương
* chúa
* thợ
* lính
Chess pieces in Vietnamese · quân cờ vua (layout · text) :
| vua | hậu | xe, xa | tượng, tịnh | mã | tốt, chốt |

### References

* ↑ Kirill Babaev, Irina Samarina (2021) Paul Sidwell, transl., A Grammar of May, Leiden & Boston: Brill, pages 55, 100, 370
* ↑ Trần Trọng Dương (2012) “Thủy âm kép tiếng Việt thế kỉ XIV-XV qua các chữ Nôm cổ trong Quốc âm thi tập”, in Ngôn Ngữ, number 8, page 55