bua

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bua"

Translingual

Symbol

bua

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Buryat.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Buryat terms

Bakumpai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.

Noun

bua

1. fruit

Baoule

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

bua

1. sheep

References

• Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan, Kouakou Kouame. Parlons baoulé: langue et culture de la Côte d’Ivoire. L’Harmattan, 2004. →ISBN

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• buang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈʔa/ [buˈʔa]
• Hyphenation: bu‧a

Adjective

bùa (intensified buahon, Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜀ)

1. crazy; insane

   Synonyms: kapay, loko, ribong

Derived terms

• bua-bua
• mabua
• makabua

 

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbu.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbu.a]

Etymology 1

Childish variant of buba (“pimple”), from Medieval Latin būbō (“bubo”), from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

Noun

bua f (plural bues)

1. pimple
2. (childish) badness

Derived terms

• bona bua
• mala bua

Etymology 2

Alteration of gúa.

Noun

bua f (plural bues)

1. (archaic, nautical, metrology) a unit of length used in measuring ships. Approximately the same as a yard, it was defined as 4 pams (“spans”)

See also

• cana (“fathom”)
• pam (“span”)

Further reading

• “bua” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bua”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “bua” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dagbani

Noun

bua

1. goat

Gagauz

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *buka.

Noun

bua (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. ox

Garo

Verb

bua

1. to pierce

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese voar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bua.

Verb

bua

1. to fly (in the sky)

Irish

Alternative forms

• buaidh (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish búaid, from Proto-Celtic *boudi; compare Scottish Gaelic buaidh, Breton buz, Welsh budd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bˠuə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bˠuː/

Noun

bua m (genitive singular bua, nominative plural buanna)

1. (sports, competition) victory, win
2. talent, gift, faculty, forte (ability)
3. merit
4. destiny

Declension

Declension of bua (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bua buanna vocative a bhua a bhuanna genitive bua buanna dative bua buanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bua na buanna genitive an bhua na mbuanna dative leis an mbua don bhua leis na buanna

Derived terms

• beir bua, beir bua agus beannacht
• ollbhua

Verb

bua

1. analytic present subjunctive of buaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of bua

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bua	bhua	mbua

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaiḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 95
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bua”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bua”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.a/
• Rhymes: -ua
• Hyphenation: bù‧a

Noun

bua f (plural bue)

1. (childish) pain, discomfort, boo-boo, owie

Anagrams

• bau

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese voar.

Verb

bua

1. to fly (in the sky)

Kokborok

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa.

Noun

bua

1. teeth

References

• Debbarma, Binoy (2001) “bua”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary‎^[1], Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, →ISBN, page 27

Latin

Etymology

Onomatopoeia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.a/, [ˈbuä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.a/, [ˈbuːä]

Noun

bua f sg (genitive buae); first declension

1. The sound made by infants when asking for their drink; baba.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	bua
genitive	buae
dative	buae
accusative	buam
ablative	buā
vocative	bua

Related terms

• vinibua

See also

• papa
• pappa

References

• “bua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Lindu

Noun

bua

1. sarong; blanket

Ngaju

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.

Noun

bua

1. fruit

Nias

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Noun

bua (mutated form mbua)

1. fruit

Derived terms

• mowua

References

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 37.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bui (old spelling or dialectal)

Noun

bua f

1. definite singular of bu

Puyuma

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *buaq (compare Malay buah, Hawaiian hua).

Noun

bua

1. fruit

Sotho

Verb

bua

1. to speak

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Noun

bua class V (plural mabua class VI)

1. stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)

Swedish

Etymology

From bu +‎ -a.

Verb

bua (present buar, preterite buade, supine buat, imperative bua)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to boo

Conjugation

Conjugation of bua (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	bua		buas
Supine	buat		buats
Imperative	bua		—
Imper. plural1	buen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	buar	buade	buas	buades
Ind. plural1	bua	buade	buas	buades
Subjunctive2	bue	buade	bues	buades
	Participles
Present participle	buande
Past participle	—
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

• utbuad

References

• bua in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bua in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Ternate

Etymology

Cognate with West Makian bual (“termite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.a]

Noun

bua

1. a termite

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tswana

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /búa/

Verb

bua

1. to speak

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bua/

Verb

bua

1. to skin an animal

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puaq (“areca nut, fruit”) with irregular loss of *q and voicing, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bua/

Noun

bua

1. areca nut

Further reading

• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.