different between maa vs waa

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

maa

1. A bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat.

Verb

maa (third-person singular simple present maas, present participle maaing, simple past and past participle maaed)

1. (intransitive) To make such a sound.
   • 1992, Josepha Sherman, A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore (page 126)

     Now it's even worse! The goat maas all the time. And the smell...

Anagrams

• AAM, AMA, Ama, aam, ama

'Are'are

Noun

maa

1. eye
2. snake

References

• Kate?ina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?/

Determiner

máa

1. which? what?

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Barunggam

Noun

maa

1. hand

Further reading

• Barunggam body parts

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Finnish maa and Karelian mua.

Noun

maa (genitive maa, partitive maad)

1. earth
2. land
3. ground
4. country
5. countryside

Declension

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Estonian maa and Karelian mua, Erzya ?????? (mastor) (initial component), Komi-Zyrian ?? (mu), Udmurt ?? (mu), Mansi ??? (m?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??/, [?m??]
• Rhymes: -??
• Syllabification: maa

Noun

maa

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

7. (card games) suit

Usage notes

Due to the multiple meanings of maa, case forms are used to distinguish meanings.

Declension

• Prolative: maitse

Derived terms

Compounds

References

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?/

Numeral

maa

1. five

References

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

Guruntum

Noun

maa

1. water

References

• Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Daniel Barreteau, Uwe Seibert, L'homme et l'eau dans le bassin du lac Tchad (1997), page 81

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Finnish maa and Estonian maa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??/
• Hyphenation: maa

Noun

maa (genitive maan, partitive maata)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 300
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[3], page 126
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: ??????? ?? ????????? ??????^[4], ?ISBN, page 73

Iu Mien

Noun

maa 

1. mother

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

maa

1. obsolete typography of må

Nzadi

Noun

màá (plural màá)

1. mother

Coordinate terms

• tàá

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ?ISBN

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Estonian maa and Karelian mua.

Noun

maa (genitive maa, partitive maat)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

Inflection

Derived terms

• maailma
• maamuna

References

• "maa" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe.

Noun

maa (genitive maa, partitive maad)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

Inflection

Derived terms

• maakund

Yoruba

Particle

máa

1. Used to express the durative or future tense.

Contraction

màá

1. Contraction of mo máa (“I'll”).

English

Etymology 1

Interjection

waa

1. The sound of a baby crying.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

waa (plural waa)

1. Alternative form of wa (“Thai unit of length”)

Anagrams

• AAW

Alaba

Noun

waa

1. water

References

• Joachim Crass, Das K'abeena: deskriptive Grammatik einer hochlandostkuschitischen Sprache (2005)

Alemannic German

Pronoun

waa

1. Alternative form of waas

Burji

Noun

wáa

1. water

Further reading

• Roba Dame, Charlotte Wedekind, Burji Dictionary (2008)
• Hans-Jürgen Sasse, An Etymological Dictionary of Burji, Kuschitische Sprachstudien 1 (1982, Hamburg, Hemut Buske Verlag)

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?/

Interjection

waa

1. expression of praise

Noun

waa

1. pendant

References

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary
• (2015) Ma Gamilaraay

Garo

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k/r/s-wa

Verb

waa (intransitive)

1. to rain

See also

• mikka

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 363

Kaurna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?/

Adverb

waa

1. where

Nzadi

Noun

wàá (plural m?n)

1. village

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ?ISBN

Ojibwe

Particle

waa

1. my! (exclamation)

See also

• waa-

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/waa-pc-disc

Sidamo

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Alaba waa and Burji waa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?/

Noun

waa m

1. water

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 81

Siuslaw

Verb

waa

1. to speak

Somali

Particle

waa

1. Topic marker which draws attention to the verb.

Usage notes

Placed before the verb; does not change normal word order.

Wathaurong

Noun

waa

1. raven

Wolio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

waa

1. fire

References

• Anceaux, Johannes C. 1987. Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia). Dordrecht: Foris.