adawa

From Arabic عَدَاوَة‎ (ʕadāwa).

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.dáː.wàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔà.dáː.wàː]

àdāwā̀ f (possessed form àdāwàr̃)

1. hatred
2. opposition

• (Ye'kwana) ayawa

• IPA^(key): [aɾ̠aːwa]

adawa (De'kwana dialect)

1. a tree, Protium heptaphyllum, from which a sticky transparent liquid is extracted and used to make torches and bodypaint
2. a torch, a light, typically made from this liquid wrapped in Oenocarpus bataua leaves
3. the bodypaint made from this liquid
4. bodypaint in general

• Hall, Katherine (2007), “adāwa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ayawa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ada:wa”, 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 63–65, 103, 144–146, 242