different between moai vs gaya

English

Etymology

Rapa Nui mo'ai (“statue, figurine”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?.a?/

Noun

moai (plural moai or moais)

1. One of the large stone statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
   • 2012, John Loret, John T. Tanacredi, Easter Island, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 26:

     As the years passed, the Moais and Ahus became larger and larger, many with red scoria top crowns weighing as much as ten tons.

Translations

See also

• ahu (“the stone platform of the moai”)

Further reading

• moai on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IMAO, MAOI, MIOA, Maio, Miao, amio

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *mon?j.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?mo??j/

Pronoun

moai

1. we (two)

Inflection

See also

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Noun

moai m (plural moais)

1. moai (type of stone statue on Easter Island)

Spanish

Noun

moai m (plural moais)

1. moai

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mooi (“pretty, nice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?j/

Adjective

moai

1. beautiful, pretty, nice

Inflection

Further reading

“moai”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto gaja, English gay, French gai, Italian gaio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??aja/

Adjective

gaya

1. merry, gay, cheerful

Derived terms

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??aja]
• Hyphenation: ga?ya

Etymology 1

• From Malay gaya, probably from Sanskrit ?? (gaya, “acquired or conquered properties”) or ???? (vayas, “power”).
• Semantic loan from Dutch kracht (“force”, literally “power, force, strength”) for physics sense.

Noun

gaya (plural gaya-gaya, first-person possessive gayaku, second-person possessive gayamu, third-person possessive gayanya)

1. power, strength

   Synonyms: kekuatan, kuat

2. (physics) force

   Synonyms: forsa, kakas

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Malay gaya, probably from Sanskrit ?? (gaya, “acquired or conquered properties”).

Noun

gaya (plural gaya-gaya, first-person possessive gayaku, second-person possessive gayamu, third-person possessive gayanya)

1. attitude, gesture, manner

   Synonyms: sikap, gerakan

2. style

   Synonym: ragam

3. (music) genre

Adjective

gaya

1. (colloquial) elegant, beautiful.

   Synonyms: bergaya, elok

Derived terms

Further reading

• “gaya” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-gaya (infinitive kugaya, perfective -gaye)

1. (Kinyarwanda) be ungrateful
2. (Kirundi) hate, despise

Spanish

Verb

gaya

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of gayar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of gayar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of gayar.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??aja/, [???j?]

Adjective

gaya

1. like, similar to

Zulu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?a?ja/

Verb

-gaya

1. (transitive) to grind

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “gaya”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “gaya (6.3)”