kawa

kawa (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kava

From Maori [Term?].

kawa (uncountable)

1. Maori customs and protocol.

• Waka, waka

Probably from Malay kawah.

• Hyphenation: ka‧wa

kawa

1. a large wok

• kaha, kalaha

kawà

1. large iron pot

• IPA^(key): /ka.wa/

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kawa m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of caoua: coffee
2. Piper methysticum (kava)

   Synonym: kava

3. kava, beverage made from Piper methysticum

   Synonym: kava

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

káwà

1. boiler

kawa

1. Rōmaji transcription of かわ

kawa

1. middle; halfway

Borrowed from Polish kawa

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Syllabification: ka‧wa

kawa f (diminutive kôwka or kawulka or kawuszka)

1. coffee

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

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

• IPA^(key): [kaˈwa]

kawa

1. mortar

kawa

1. spider (large)

From Proto-Polynesian *kawa (cognates include Hawaiian ʻawa, Tongan kava and Samoan ʻava)^[1][2] 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.^[3] Sense of "marae protocol" seems to be a modern extension.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.wa/, [ˈkɐ.wɐ]

kawa

1. sour

kawa

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

kawa

1. to perform the kawa ceremony, open a new house

• kawakawa

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

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

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kawa sense 1

kawa sense 2

kawa sense 3

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.va/

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• Rhymes: -ava
• Syllabification: ka‧wa
• Homophone: Kawa

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

kawa f (diminutive kawka or kawcia or kawunia or kawusia, related adjective kawowy)

2. (uncountable) coffee (beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water)
   1. (countable) coffee (serving of this beverage)
   2. (countable) coffee (act of drinking this beverage)
4. (countable) coffee (any plant of the genus Coffea)

   Synonym: kawowiec

6. (countable) coffee (seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called “beans” due to their shape)
7. (countable) coffee-like beverage made from grains, seeds, or roots of various plants
8. (countable) coffee (short social gathering where coffee is served)

• → Yiddish: קאַווע (kave)

Back-formation from kawka.

kawa f

1. (obsolete or dialectal) jackdaw (any corvid of the genus Coloeus)

   Synonym: kawka

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

• Audio (Kenya):

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

-kawa (infinitive kukawa)

1. to delay, be late, tarry

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

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kawa (ma class, plural makawa)

1. cover (of food)

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

kawa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏ)

1. large caldron; large boiler or kettle

   Synonyms: kaldero, talyasi

• waak, awak