koya

See also: Kōya and køya

Fijian

Pronoun

koya

  1. third person singular; he, she or singular they

See also

Japanese

Romanization

koya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of こや

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Hokkien 哥仔 (*ko-iá) as per Chan-Yap (1980)[1] with an older obsolete form of the diminutive suffix[2][3] as a weak form of (kiáⁿ, káⁿ). Cognates with Tagalog kuya and Cebuano kuya.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ko‧ya
  • IPA(key): /ˈkojə/, [ˈkoː.jə]

Noun

kóya

  1. an elder brother
  2. a respectful title or form of address for an older man

References

  1. Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 141
  2. Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum (in Early Modern Spanish & Early Manila Hokkien, with some Middle Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, O.P., 1626-1642, page 344/366; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中); Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁); José, Regalado Trota; Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018
  3. Medhurst, Walter Henry (1832) A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language: According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing about 12,000 Characters (in English & Hokkien), Macau: East India Press, page 736

Rayón Zoque

Noun

koya

  1. tomatillo

Derived terms

  • mʌjakoya

References

  • Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28) (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 14
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