kanwa

• IPA^(key): [kaŋwa]

kanwa

1. woven rectangular basket with a telescoping lid, commonly associated with shamans and used to store ritual objects

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “kanwa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ka:nwa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 77, 79, 99, 101–102, 105–106, 215–218, 235
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 39, 42

Borrowed from French canevas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.va/

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• Rhymes: -anva
• Syllabification: kan‧wa

kanwa f

1. Aida cloth
2. groundwork

   Synonym: osnowa

3. (cartography, rare) contour map

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