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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori moa, from Proto-Polynesian *moa (“fowl”).

Pronunciation

• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?m??/, /?mo?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m???/

Noun

moa (plural moas)

1. Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world. [from 19th c.]
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford 2000, p. 29:

     The moas (order Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand are likewise extinct but almost certainly some still survived when Tasman first sighted the islands in 1642.

Translations

Anagrams

• -oma, Amo, Amo., MAO, Mao, Oma, mao, oma

'Are'are

Verb

moa

1. to vomit

References

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo(?)?/, [?mo?(?)?]
• Rhymes: -o?
• Syllabification: mo?a

Noun

moa

1. moa (large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand)

Declension

Anagrams

• oma

Galician

Alternative forms

• mó

Etymology

From Medieval Galician proper moa, from Latin mola (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind”). Cognate of Portuguese mó and of Spanish muela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?a?/

Noun

moa f (plural moas)

1. molar
2. millstone
3. grindstone
   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, page 295:

     que lle quebrantaron duas moas de moer ferramenta, que sían armadas et encabalgadas

     that they broke two grindstones used for sharpening tools, that were framed and mounted

4. whetstone
5. heap
6. gizzard

Synonyms

• (molar): molar
• (millstone): capa, pedra
• (gizzard): moella

Derived terms

Related terms

• moer
• muíño

References

• “moa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “moa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “moa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “moa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo.a/, [?mow?]

Noun

moa

1. chicken or similar fowl

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English moa, from Maori moa, from Proto-Polynesian *moa (“fowl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.a/
• Rhymes: -?a
• Hyphenation: mòa

Noun

moa m (invariable)

1. moa

References

• moa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

Romanization

moa

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa.

Noun

moa

1. earth
2. ground
3. land

Malay

Noun

moa

1. eel

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

Noun

moa

1. moa a bird (extinct, Dinornis)

Descendants

• ? English: moa

Niuean

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

Noun

moa

1. chicken

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

moa m (definite singular moaen, indefinite plural moaer, definite plural moaene)

1. moa (large, extinct flightless bird of New Zealand)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

moa m (definite singular moaen, indefinite plural moaer or moaar, definite plural moaene or moaane)

1. moa (large, extinct flightless bird of New Zealand)

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

moa f (plural moas)

1. moa (large, extinct flightless bird of New Zealand)

Etymology 2

Verb

moa

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of moer
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of moer
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of moer
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of moer

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *moa. Cognates include Hawaiian moa and Maori moa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo.a/

Noun

moa

1. chicken

Derived terms

• hare moa

References

• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui, Berlin, ?ISBN, page 29

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

Noun

moa

1. chicken or similar fowl

Derived terms

• fu?moa

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English more.

Adverb

moa

1. more

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from French moi (“me”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [mwa???]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [mwa???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mwa???]

Pronoun

moa

1. (obsolete, humorous) I; me

See also

• tôi

English

Etymology

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

Noun

moya (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, geology) Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption. [from 1800s–1930s]
   • 1832, Samuel Hibbert, History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine, page 40:

     These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.

Synonyms

• mud lava, volcanic mud, tufaceous mud

Further reading

• moya in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• moya in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “moya”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

Anagrams

• Amoy, Mayo, mayo

Buruwai

Noun

moya

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu umoya, from Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. air
2. wind

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

môya

1. wind

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. wind

Rawang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?(?).ja?/

Noun

moya

1. colour.

Synonyms

• nv?mya

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya 3 (uncountable)

1. wind

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya 3

1. wind