jaʼ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ja"

Akatek

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

  • Susanne Schüle, Perception verb complements in Akatek, a Mayan language, citing Zavala (1992)

Ch'orti'

Alternative forms

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

Chol

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

  • Chol Texts on the Supernatural (1965), page 159

Itzá

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

K'iche'

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xaːʔ/

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water
  2. liquor
  • amaʼ jaʼ (“liquor; aguardiente”)
  • -be jaʼ (“riverbed”)
  • binel jaʼ (“rivulet; stream; river”)
  • binik p-wiʼ ri jaʼ (“to float”)
  • boq jaʼ (“to sweat”)
  • bulqʼat jaʼ (“flood”)
  • chuqʼlij ri jaʼ (“to splash”)
  • el jaʼ (“to sweat”)
  • el jaʼ cho -palaj (“to sweat on face”)
  • el pa jaʼ (“to sweat”)
  • jaʼ poqʼ (“water blister”)
  • jaʼ tew (“frozen”)
  • jaʼ -wäch (“liquid; in liquid form”)
  • jaʼ(o) (“to water”)
  • jaʼaj (“to give water to; to water”)
  • jaʼj (“to water”)
  • jaʼnik (“to water”)
  • jorona jaʼ (“cold water”)
  • kʼiyibal jaʼ (“spring, fountain”)
  • kʼo jaʼ ch-pam (“to have diarrhea”)
  • -kʼoxil jaʼ (“well of water”)
  • kokʼjaʼnik (“to drink”)
  • nim -ib pa jaʼ (“to dive”)
  • nim jaʼ (“river”)
  • qʼän jaʼ (“blister”)
  • qʼatbal jaʼ (“dam”)
  • qʼor jaʼ (“atole”)
  • qaj (ch-)xe jaʼ (“to sink”)
  • qasaj jaʼ p-wiʼ (“to baptize by sprinkling”)
  • qasaj xeʼ jaʼ (“to baptize; to submerge in water”)
  • qasbal jaʼ (“rainy season”)
  • relibal jaʼ (“fountain; spring”)
  • -sibal jaʼ (“stream”)
  • siwan be jaʼ (“ravine, gorge”)
  • sutbal jaʼ (“whirlpool”)
  • tix jaʼ ch-ij (“to water”)
  • torbal jaʼ (“plug (to drain water)”)
  • tzalam siwan p-turbal jaʼ (“waterfall”)
  • tzaq jaʼ (“to sweat”)
  • tzaya jaʼ (“brackish water”)
  • u-qajibal jaʼ (“waterfall”)
  • -uxlab jaʼ (“steam; water vapor”)
  • wa jaʼ (“nourishment (general term for all food and drink”)
  • -wo jaʼ (“flood; overflow of river”)

References

Kiliwa

Noun

jaʼ

  1. Alternative form of ʼjaʼ

References

Lacandon

Adjective

jaʼ

  1. water

References

  • Fisher, William Morrison (1973). Towards the Reconstruction of Proto-Yucatec, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago

Mocho

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

Mopan Maya

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water
  2. rain

Derived terms

Adjective

jaʼ

  1. watery

References

  • Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

Tabasco Chontal

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

  • Kathryn C. Keller, Diccionario Chontal de Tabasco, Summer Institute of Linguistics (1997), page 471

Tojolabal

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

  • Carlos Lenkersdorf, Tojolabal para principiantes, lengua y cosmovision mayas en Chiapas (1994, México, CRT)

Tzeltal

Alternative forms

  • haʼ (“obsolete”)
  • haˀ (“obsolete”)

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water
    • Tzeltal language learning guide, page 11:
      Ya cuchʼ jaʼ
      I drink water

Uspanteco

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

  • Miguel Angel Vicente Méndez, Diccionario bilingüe uspanteko-español, page 93, 2007

Wastek

Noun

jaʼ

  1. water

References

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *haʼ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhaʔ]

Noun

jaʼ (plural jaʼob)

  1. water
  2. rain
  3. lake

References

  • Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán, A. C. (2003) Diccionario maya popular: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), →ISBN, page 69: “JAʼ”
  • Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo et al. (1980) Diccionario maya Cordemex: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), Mérida: Ediciones Cordemex, page 165: “HAʼ”
  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 178: “Agua. .... Haa.”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 57: “haʼ”
  • Pío Pérez, Juan (1866–1877) Diccionario de la lengua maya (in Spanish), Mérida de Yucatán: Imprenta literaria, de Juan F. Molina Solís, page 105: “HÁ: agua”
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