va

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Albanian

Etymology

Either from Proto-Albanian *wa(d), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go, walk”), or from Latin vadum; impossible to determine. Possibly forms a doublet of vete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [va]

Noun

va m (plural va, definite vau, definite plural vatë)

1. ford
2. (regional) forest passageway
3. (figurative) way out

Derived terms

• vator

References

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō.

Verb

va

1. third-person singular present indicative of ir/anar
2. (auxiliary, with infinitive) third-person singular present indicative of ir/anar

Interjection

va

1. now, let's go (as an incitement to action or to a decision)

   Synonyms: au, aire

2. aha (An Expression of incredulity or doubt)

   Synonyms: au-va, araba, ah, au

3. please (When asking for something in a familiar tone)

   Synonyms: per favor, au va

Breton

Pronoun

va (requires spirant mutation)

1. my

   Va zad ― My father

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈba]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈva]
• Rhymes: -a

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan va, inherited from Latin vānus.

Adjective

va (feminine vana, masculine plural vans, feminine plural vanes)

1. vain (having no real substance)
2. vain (effecting no real purpose)

Derived terms

• en va
• envanir
• vanament

Related terms

• vanitat

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō. Usurped theoretically correct "ana" (from ambulāt; see ambulo) as the third person singular present of "anar".

Verb

va

1. third-person singular present indicative of anar
2. (auxiliary, with infinitive) third-person singular present indicative of anar

References

• “va” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “va” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Pronoun

va

1. he

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *vaa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat. Cognate to Indonesian empat.

Numeral

va

1. four

French

Etymology

Respectively from Latin vādit (indicative) and vāde (imperative), forms of vādō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va/

Verb

va

1. inflection of aller:
   1. third-person singular present active indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of vader:
   1. third-person singular present active indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• ça va

Anagrams

• av.

Galician

Adjective

va f sg

1. feminine singular of van

Gokana

Noun

va

1. wife

References

• R. Blench, Comparative Ogonic

Hlai

Etymology

From Proto-Hlai *Cuɾaː (“boat”), from Pre-Hlai *Cu[d/ɖ]aː (Norquest, 2015).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hlai, Baoding) IPA^(key): /va˥˧/

Noun

va

1. boat

Interlingua

Verb

va

1. present of ir
2. present of vader

Italian

Alternative forms

• và (misspelling)

Etymology

From Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō, and vāde, second-person singular present active imperative of the same verb, respectively.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva‿|| ˈva/

Verb

va

1. inflection of andare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• va in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Japanese

Romanization

va

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゔぁ
2. Rōmaji transcription of わ゙
3. Rōmaji transcription of ヴァ
4. Rōmaji transcription of ヷ

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jígua.

Verb

-vá

1. to hear, to understand

Ligurian

Verb

va

1. third-person singular present indicative of andâ

Lithuanian

Interjection

va (informal)

1. here you are; here you go; voilà; lo; behold

Verb

va (informal)

1. Here is.

2. There is.

Synonyms

• štai (suitable for use in formal contexts)

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French va (“go”).

Verb

va

1. (auxiliary) to go
2. to go

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Manx

Alternative forms

• v’ (apocopic)

Verb

va (dependent form row)

1. past of bee

Maricopa

Noun

va

1. house

Matal

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Central Chadic *v- (“to give”)

Verb

va

1. to give

2. to let, allow

References

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German von, from Old High German fon. Cognate with German von.

Preposition

va

1. (+ dative) from

Derived terms

• van

References

• “va” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• vace

Etymology

From Latin vādit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva/
• Rhymes: -a

Verb

va

1. third-person singular present indicative of jí

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 519: “va a caccia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• vade (long form)

Etymology

From Old Norse vaða, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną.

Verb

va (present tense var, past tense vadde, past participle vadd)

1. (intransitive) to wade

Synonyms

• vasse

References

• “va” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• av

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

va (present tense var, past tense vadde, supine vadd or vadt, past participle vadd, present participle vadande)

1. Alternative form of vada (“to wade”)

Etymology 2

Verb

va (present tense e)

1. (dialectal, colloquial) to be
2. (dialectal, colloquial) was

References

• “va” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• av

Old Czech

Etymology

Derived from original vě by analogy with numbers dvě and dva. The pronouns vě and va were used interchangeably regardless of the gender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈʋa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈva/

Pronoun

va

1. we two (first person dual)

   Synonyms: vě, (rare) ma

Declension

References

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “va”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Pali

Etymology 1

From iva.

Alternative forms

Particle

va

1. (poetic, enclitic) like, as if

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Particle

va

1. sandhi form of eva (“even”)

References

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jígua.

Verb

-vá

1. to understand

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [va]

Etymology 1

Probably from the third-person singular present indicative of vrea (“to want, to wish”), used in its special conjugation as an auxiliary verb (cf. the first-person voi (“(I) will”), from Vulgar Latin voleō (“I want”)). This semantic shift is visible in most languages of the Balkan sprachbund, compare voi cânta (literally “I want to sing”) with Serbo-Croatian ću pevati < hoću pevati, Bulgarian ще пея (šte peja) < ща да пея (šta da peja), Greek θα τραγουδήσω (tha tragoudíso) < θέλω να τραγουδήσω (thélo na tragoudíso), Albanian do të këndoj < dua të këndoj: all being somewhat reduced forms of "I wish to sing".

An alternative etymology is that it began originally as the now rare word in etymology 2 below, from forms of Latin vādere (“to go”), and was confused with conjugated forms of voi / vrea in Romanian; compare voi cânta (“I will sing”) to the constructions in French je vais chanter and Spanish voy a cantar with the same meaning (literally, "I am going to sing").

Verb

(el/ea) va (modal auxiliary, third-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

1. (he/she) will

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō. It is also rarely used as a second person singular imperative form, meaning "go", from Latin vāde (and plural form vați from vāditis). 16th century Transylvanian documents also display respective variant forms vă and vareți. Cognate with Italian, Spanish, and French va.

Alternative forms

• vă — rare

Verb

va

1. (to go), only used in mai va (see usage notes).
2. (regional, Crișana) go (imperative) (plural vați)

Usage notes

The conjugation for this verb is defective, with the only remaining form being va, used in the expression "mai va", meaning "it will take longer or there is more to go (until then)".

Synonyms

• (to go): merge, duce
• (go): du-te, duceți-vă

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba/ [ˈba]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: va

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō.

Verb

va

1. third-person singular present indicative of ir

Etymology 2

Short form of vale.

Interjection

va

1. (Mexico) okay

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jígua.

Verb

-vá

1. to understand

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

va ?

1. water supply and sewage; abbreviation of vatten och avlopp.

Declension

Uninflected.

Related terms

• va-nämnd

Etymology 2

From vad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva/

Interjection

va

1. huh? what? A request that the speaker repeat their last statement, or an expression of disbelief. Contraction of vad.

See also

• vasa

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑː/

Verb

va

1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of vara

2. (colloquial) Apocopic form of var

Pronoun

va

1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of vad (“what”)

References

Anagrams

• av, av-

Talysh

Noun

va

1. snow

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَ (wa, “and”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /væ/

Conjunction

va

1. and

   sen va men ― you and me

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin vādit, vādunt, vādis, and vāde forms of vādō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va/

Verb

va

1. present indicative third-person of ndar
2. (regional) present indicative second-person singular of ndar
3. present imperative second-person singular of ndar

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vaː˧˧] ~ [jaː˧˧]

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

va • (撝)

1. to bump into (something)

See also

• đụng

Etymology 2

Attested in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651) as ua, va.

Compare Khmer វា (viə).

Pronoun

va • (撝, 爲)

1. (obsolete, literary) he/him; she/her; they/them (singular third person pronoun)

Usage notes

• When used on its own, this word seems to be used chiefly as a literary device for narration purpose (similar to modern y), and not as a word commonly used in the spoken language. However, when occurring in compounds (such as anh va, etc.), it did seem to be used colloquially.
• It did not seem to carry any inherent honorific nor pejorative function, so its connotation on its own was likely fairly neutral.
• Although most attestations show its usage for males, this word was also used to refer to females, such as in Trương Vĩnh Ký's Tích Túy-Kiều (1911), which is a prose retelling of Nguyễn Du's Truyện Kiều:

See also

Xhosa

Etymology 1

Verb

-va^?

1. to feel

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-jígua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [v̥a̤]

Verb

-̂va

1. to understand
2. to hear

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *HwáHatah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwáHatas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts.

Noun

va

1. wind

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 花 (MC xwae).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /βa˨˦/
• Tone numbers: va¹
• Hyphenation: va

Noun

va (Sawndip forms 椛 or 𦭈, 1957–1982 spelling va)

1. flower

   Synonym: ndok

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *waa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *wa. Cognates include Khumi Chin tävaw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va˧˥/

Noun

vá

1. bird

Derived terms

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 46