different between toa vs noa

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

toa (plural toas)

1. A small painted artifact made by the Diyari people of Australia, believed to have been used as place markers or signposts.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori toa.

Noun

toa (plural toas)

1. (New Zealand) A brave warrior.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Maori toa.

Noun

toa (countable and uncountable, plural toas)

1. A Polynesian tree of the genus Casuarina, or its wood.

Anagrams

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, TAO, Tao, oat, tao

Asturian

Determiner

toa f

1. feminine singular of tou

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin tua, feminine of tuus.

Pronoun

toa f (masculine to)

1. your; second-person feminine singular possessive pronoun

Ese

Noun

toa

1. water

References

• Jim and Judy Parlier. Managalasi phonology. 2008 [1963].

Estonian

Noun

toa

1. genitive singular of tuba

Fijian

Noun

toa

1. fowl

Galician

Etymology

Attested circa 1450. From toar, from Old French toer, from Old Norse toga, from Proto-Germanic *tug?n? (“to pull”). Compare English tow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?toa?/

Noun

toa f (plural toas)

1. towrope

Derived terms

• á toa

References

• “toa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “toa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “toa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “toa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “toa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Garo

Etymology

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

Verb

toa

1. (transitive) to measure the length, weight
2. (intransitive) to be nice.
3. to be delicious

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[6], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 388

Indonesian

Etymology

A genericized trademark of the Japanese trademark TOA, from the first two characters (??(???) (t?a, “East Asia”))) of its former name (??????).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?toa]
• Hyphenation: toa

Noun

toa (first-person possessive toaku, second-person possessive toamu, third-person possessive toanya)

1. (dialect, informal) sound system, including megaphone.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *toqa (compare Hawaiian koa).

Adjective

toa

1. brave

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tow.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?to.?/

Noun

toa f (plural toas)

1. rope

   Synonym: sirga

Related terms

• à toa

Rarotongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *toa (compare Hawaiian koa), from Proto-Oceanic *toRas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teRas (compare Indonesian teras).

Noun

toa

1. A tree with dark-colored, hard wood, Casuarina equisetifolia.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-toa (infinitive kutoa)

1. to give (out), put out
2. to produce
3. to publish
4. to offer

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -tolea
  • Causative: -toza
  • Passive: -tolewa
  • Reciprocal: -toana
  • Stative: -toleka

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of toalett

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tu??a/

Noun

toa c

1. (colloquial) toilet, loo

Declension

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

toa

1. a railroad car

Etymology 2

From Min Nan ?. Compare Thai ???? (dt?ua), Khmer ?? (tu?).

Noun

toa

1. (medicine, pharmacy) a prescription

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French toi.

Pronoun

toa

1. (obsolete, humorous) you

See also

• moa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori.

Adjective

noa (not comparable)

1. (New Zealand, among the Maori) Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo.

   The power of the spoken word has meant that some dangerous things are not mentioned by their "real" names, but by noa terms, like gullfot (literally "golden foot") for "wolf", or tallbjörn (literally "pine bear"), granoxe (literally: "fir ox"), trädräv (literally: "tree fox") or granälg (literally: "fir elk") for "squirrel".

References

Anagrams

• AON, NAO, Nao, ONA, Ona, ano-, nao

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no.a/

Verb

noa

1. First-person singular (ni) present indicative form of joan.

Belizean Creole

Verb

noa

1. know

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 244.

Ese

Noun

noa

1. (anatomy) cheek

Estonian

Noun

noa

1. genitive singular of nuga

Hawaiian

Noun

noa

1. release from taboo restrictions
2. a commoner

Verb

noa

1. (stative) free of taboo, profane

Derived terms

• ho?onoa
• l? noa

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.a/
• Rhymes: -?a
• Hyphenation: nòa

Noun

noa m (uncountable)

1. That which is noa.

   Antonym: tabù

References

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

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish núa, from Old Irish nuae, Proto-Celtic *nouyos (compare Welsh newydd, Breton nevez), from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos.

Pronunciation

• (Southern Manx) IPA^(key): /no?/

Adjective

noa

1. new, fresh, novel, recent

References

• Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects Volume I, Heinrich Wagner, page 78

Mpotovoro

Etymology

Compare Big Nambas nauei.

Noun

noa

1. water

Further reading

• ABVD, citing D. T. Tryon, New Hebrides Languages: An internal classification (1976, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics); also listed under the place-name Alavas 1 / 2, citing Aviva Shimelman

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronoun

noa

1. (non-standard since 1959)feminine singular of noen

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian n? (eastern dialect) and n? (western dialect). Compare English no.

Adverb

noa

1. no

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-noa (infinitive kunoa)

1. to sharpen something
2. to not understand something

Conjugation

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?no.a/
• Hyphenation: no?a

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *noqa. Cognates include Tuvaluan noa and Samoan noa.

Verb

noa

1. (transitive) to bind, tie

Etymology 2

Particle

noa

1. Expresses the unimportance of the preceding word; just, mere, only

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 252

Tongan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no.a/

Numeral

noa

1. zero