# kua
## Translingual
### Symbol

kua
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kwanyama.

## Basque
### Noun

kua
* absolutive singular of ku

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Compare Cebuano and Tagalog kuha.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuˈʔa/ [kuˈʔa]
* Hyphenation: ku‧a

### Verb

kùa (plural kurua, Basahan spelling ᜃᜓᜀ)
* to get; to take; to seize; to acquire; to obtain
* to hire; to employ
* to major (in a course)
* to extract; to derived from
* to find; to discovery
    Synonyms: dukay, hanap
* (by extension) to grab
    Synonym: takma

#### Derived terms

* hingua
* kuahon
* kuanon
* magkua
* makakua
* makua
* makuanan
* mangua
* pangua

## Central Huasteca Nahuatl
### Noun

kua
* to eat.

## Coatepec Nahuatl
### Noun

kua
* snake

## Drung
### Noun

kua
* bee

### References

* Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎, Santa Barbara: University of California

## Hawaiian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.a/, [ˈku.wə]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *tuqa (compare with Maori tua “back, behind, beyond”, Samoan tua “beyond, outside”, Tahitian tua “ridge, crest”, and Tongan tuʻa), from Proto-Oceanic *tuqan (“bone”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuqəlaŋ (compare with Chamorro to'lang, Malay tulang, Ilocano tulang), *tuqəlan (“bone”), from Proto-Austronesian *CuqəlaN.

#### Noun

kua
* (anatomy) back
* back; rear
* burden

#### Verb

kua
* to carry on the back, as a child

#### Adverb

kua
* windward

#### References

* ↑ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “kua”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 168
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tuqa1b”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 84-6

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

kua
* (transitive) to chop, chip, hack, dub, strike, cut out

#### References

* kua in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

## Ilocano
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kua. Cognates with Kankanaey kua, Central Bontoc kuwani, Pangasinan kuan, Tagalog kuwan, Hanunoo kuwa, Cebuano kuwan, and Tontemboan kua, kuan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuˈa/, [kwa]

### Noun

kuá
* Replaces a word or root that the speaker cannot recall; whatchamacallit; thingy; thingamajig
* With initial CV reduplication, used to form possessive pronouns

#### Derived terms

* aginkukua
* agkua
* agtagikua
* akinkua
* akinkukua
* idi kua
* ikua
* intono kua
* intono kuan
* ipakua
* ipatagikua
* kinasanikua
* kuaen
* kukua
* maipatagikua
* makapagtagikua
* makikua
* makipagkukua
* makipagtagikua
* managinkukua
* managtagikua
* masanikua
* matagikua
* nasanikua
* no kua
* no kua ngay
* panagkukua
* panagtagikua
* sanikua
* tagikua
* tagikuaen

## Kikuyu
### Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kukua (or kuite) as equivalents of English die in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba kugua as its equivalent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kua/

### Verb

kua (infinitive gũkua)
* to die
* to break into pieces, to fall into pieces

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “to die”): gũtũũra

#### Derived terms

(Proverbs)
* mũici na mũndũ mũka atigaga kĩeha akua

#### Related terms

(Nouns)
* gĩkuũ class 7
* mũkuũ class 1
(Adjectives)
* -kuũ

#### See also

* (to break into pieces): gwatũka

### References

* ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* 1 2 Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 49.

## Mandarin
### Romanization

kua
* Nonstandard spelling of kuā.
* Nonstandard spelling of kuǎ.
* Nonstandard spelling of kuà.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

From Bavarian Kuah, from Middle High German kuo, from Old High German kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Cognate with German Kuh, English cow.

### Noun

kua f
* cow

### References

* “kua” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* kuen

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

kua m or f
* definite feminine singular of ku

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse kúga. Akin to English cow.

#### Alternative forms

* kue

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²kʉːɑ/

#### Verb

kua (present tense kuar, past tense kua, past participle kua, passive infinitive kuast, present participle kuande, imperative kua/ku)
* to cow, subdue

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkʉːɑ/

#### Noun

kua f
* definite singular of ku

### References

* “kua” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese qual and Spanish cual.

### Pronoun

kua
* which

## Pipil
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kua/

### Verb

-kua
* (transitive) to buy

## Puroik
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Puroik *kua.

### Noun

kua
* water

### References

* ↑ Lieberherr, Ismael (2015) “A progress report on the historical phonology and affiliation of Puroik”, in North East Indian Linguistics (NEIL)‎, volume 7, page 238 of 235–286
* ↑ Blench, Roger, Post, Mark (2011) (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence‎

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-kua (infinitive kukua)
* to grow (to become bigger)

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -kua :
| Positive present | -nakua |
| Subjunctive | -kue |
| Negative | -kui |
| Imperative singular | kua |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kukua |
| Negative | kutokua |
Imperatives :
| Singular | kua |
| Plural | kueni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hukua |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -likua |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kukua |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -takua |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -takua |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sikue |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngekua |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singekua |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalikua |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalikua |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mekua |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshakua |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jakua |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kikua |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipokua |
| Consecutive | kakua / positive subject concord + -kakua |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kakue |
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:
** Causative: -kuza (“to enlarge / to glorify”)
* Nominal derivations:
** ukuaji (“growth”)

## Tedim Chin
### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-kəw.

### Numeral

kua
* nine

### References

* Zomi Ordbog by D.L. Haokip

## Tokelauan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kua. Cognates include Maori kua and Samoan ʻua.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈku.a]
* Hyphenation: ku‧a

### Particle

kua
* Used to indicate the present perfect.

### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 167

## White Hmong
### Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *klæwX (“liquid, soup”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuə̯˧/

### Noun

kua
* runny liquid, fluid
* juice

#### Derived terms

* kua ciab (“a gummy wax used as an adhesive”)
* kua dis (“rice gruel”)
* kua mem (“ink”)
* kua mis (“milk”)
* kua muag (“tears”)
* kua ntxhai (“rice water (poured-off cooked rice)”)
* kua paug (“a thick secretion”)
* kua tshuaj (“liquid medicine”)
* kua yeeb (“liquid opium”)
* kua yis (“a thin secretion”)

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 89.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 276.