pawa

pawa (plural pawas)

1. (New Zealand) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.
   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"

     One little patch was divided off by pawa shells […]

• pāua (New Zealand)
• abalone (US, Australia)
• ear-shell (UK),
• ormer (Guernsey)
• perlemoen (South Africa)

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pawa

1. (Mpakwithi) egg

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

pawa

1. field

From paw (“peacock”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpawa/

pawa f

1. peahen

pawa

1. inflection of paw:
   1. genitive/accusative singular
   2. nominative dual

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “pawa”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “pawa”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From Proto-Germanic *pāwô, from Latin pāvō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.wɑ/

pāwa m

1. peacock
   • c. 1000, The Wonders of the East‎:

     Fēnixas habbaþ cambas on hēafde swā pāwan.

     Phoenixes have crests on their head like peacocks.

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-pawa (infinitive kupawa)

1. (dialectal or archaic) Passive form of -pa

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Compare Kapampangan paua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpawaʔ/, [ˈpa.wɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧wa

pawà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜏ)

1. all

   Synonym: lahat

• “pawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From English power.

pawa

1. power
2. strength
3. electricity

pawa

1. water

• Frank J. F. Wordick, The Yindjibarndi Language (1982)