aua

Borrowed from Maori aua.

aua (plural aua)

1. (New Zealand) Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.
   • 1855, Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui: Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, page 133:

     When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.

   • 1872, Frederick Wollaston Hutton; Sir James Hector, Fishes of New Zealand: Catalogue with Diagnoses of the Species:

     The Picton Herring, a dried fish commonly known throughout the colony, is the Aua preserved by smoking.

• A.A.U., AAU

From Portuguese água (“water”).

aua

1. water
   • 1957, Rvd. P. Natalio Barrena, Gramatica Annobonesa, Instituto de Estudios Africanos, page 43:

     bo da mi ja d’ aua;

     give me some water;

• IPA^(key): [aˈwa]

aua

1. Alternative form of aoa

aua

1. we (exclusive)

aua

1. we are (exclusive)

aua

1. hour

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aua

1. ouch (expression of one's own physical pain)

• autsch, au

• “aua” in Duden online
• “aua” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

aua

1. four

• IPA^(key): /a.u.a/, [ɐ.ʉ.ɐ]

From Proto-Polynesian *qaua (“a kind of mullet”).

aua

1. yellow-eye mullet, (Aldrichetta forsteri)

From Proto-Polynesian *qaua (“negative imperative”).

aua

1. Negative imperative particle: no! don't!

   Synonym: kaua

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

From the interjection au!.

• aue (e and split infinitives)

aua (present tense auar, past tense aua, past participle aua, passive infinitive auast, present participle auande, imperative aua/au)

1. (intransitive) to say ouch!, to wail

aua n (plural aua)

1. Eye dialect spelling of auga.

• “aua” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ała

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.wa/

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• Rhymes: -awa
• Syllabification: au‧a

aua

1. ouch (expression of one's own physical pain)

   Synonyms: au, auć

• aua in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aua in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Polynesian *qaua (“a kind of mullet”).

aua

1. silvery mullet (Mugil curema)

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

• ava (Surmiran)
• ova (Puter)

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

aua f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) water

• aua da baiver, aua da beiber, aua da bever
• aua minerala
• aua da spina, aua da tgiern, aua da la spegna

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-aua (infinitive kuaua)

1. to survey, inspect, examine, trace out

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -ausha, -auza
  • Passive: -auliwa

aua (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏ)

1. Obsolete spelling of awa

From English hour.

aua

1. hour

Also used to mark the counting of time. See kilok.

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈu.a/
• Hyphenation: a‧u‧a

Te aua (1).

From Proto-Polynesian *qaua. Cognates include Maori aua and Samoan aua.

aua

1. silvery mullet (Mugil curema)

From Proto-Polynesian *qaua. Cognates include Maori aua and Tongan ʻoua.

aua

1. Negative imperative particle: no! don't!

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 3