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Awabakal

Noun

wara

  1. four or five
  2. palm of the hand

Balinese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /warə/
  • Hyphenation: wa‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Javanese wara (“eminent, precious, select”), from Sanskrit वर (vara, “best”).

Adjective

wara (Balinese script ᬯᬭ)

  1. superior

Etymology 2

From Old Javanese wāra (“day”), from Sanskrit वार (vāra, “day”).

Noun

wara (Balinese script ᬯᬵᬭ)

  1. day

Etymology 3

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From Old Javanese wwara (“to be there; to be present”).

Adjective

wara (Balinese script ᬯ᭄ᬯᬭ)

  1. present, available

Further reading

  • “wara”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali]
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Bikol Central

Etymology

From Proto-Central Philippine *wadaq, from Proto-Philippine *wada (“to be, exist”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waˈɾaʔ/ [waˈɾaʔ]
  • Hyphenation: wa‧ra

Adjective

warâ (plural warara, Basahan spelling ᜏᜍ)

  1. lost; disappeared; vanished
    Nawara sana siya.
    S/he's just disappeared.
  2. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) absent
    Synonyms: mayo, awsente
    Antonym: yaon
    Wara naman siya sa klase.
    S/he's absent again in class.

Pronoun

warâ (plural warara, Basahan spelling ᜏᜍ)

  1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon, indefinite) nothing; none; no one; nobody
    Synonyms: mayo, dai
    Antonyms: igwa, may
    Wara baga ki tawo sa harong.
    There's no one in the house.

Derived terms

  • magwara
  • makawara
  • mawara
  • pagkawara
  • pawara
  • waraon

Ibaloi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waɾa/ [wɑ.ɾɑ]
  • Hyphenation: wa‧ra

Determiner

wara

  1. there is, it exist, have
    Antonyms: ayshi, enshi, andi

Adverb

wara

  1. there is, it exist, have
    Antonyms: ayshi, enshi, andi
    Wara ey dugan ko.
    I have a car.
    Nu wara, ikowan mo.
    If there is, tell me.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Javanese ꦮꦫ (wara, “words”),

Root

wara

  1. announcement

Affixed terms

Compounds

Etymology 2

Noun

wara

  1. syllabic abbreviation of wanita angkatan udara

Etymology 3

Borrowed from West Masela [Term?]

Noun

wara (plural wara-wara)

  1. loincloth made of woven cloth, worn when dancing traditional dances by the people of Telalora Village, Maluku

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Lawangan [Term?]

Noun

wara (plural wara-wara)

  1. words spoken in song during the death ceremony of the Dayak people

Further reading

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Japanese

Romanization

wara

  1. Rōmaji transcription of わら

Javanese

Romanization

wara

  1. romanization of ꦮꦫ

Maltese

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Etymology

From Arabic وَرَاء (warāʔ, “behind, beyond”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwara/
  • Rhymes: -ara

Preposition

wara

  1. (local) behind
    Antonym: quddiem
    • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “It-Tallab”, in Fl-Arena:
      Wara l-bibien,
      fit-tul tat-toroq twal,
      batejt
      il-għeja
      il-qtigħ ta’ qalb,
      batejt fuq kollox il-mistħija;
      iżda ġarrabt ukoll
      il-ferħ u l-għaxqa
      li kull tallab iħoss
      x’ħin jasal wisq għajjien bil-ħorġa f’idu
      bil-ħobż għand ommu mġewħa.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (temporal) after
    Antonym: qabel

Inflection

  • Usual forms:
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  • Rarer alternative forms:
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Miraya Bikol

Pronoun

wara

  1. nothing; none; no one; nobody

Old English

Verb

wara

  1. imperative singular of warian

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”), whence also Old English wær.

Noun

wara f

  1. attention
Descendants
  • Middle High German: war

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *wērō (“truth”), whence also Old English wær.

Noun

wāra f

  1. truth
  2. agreement

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit वर (vara). Compare Thai พระ (prá), Khmer ព្រះ (prĕəh).

Noun

wara

  1. favour, gift
  2. eminent, precious, select

Proper noun

wara

  1. before personal names of young men and women

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦮꦫ (wara, “lady”)
  • → Balinese: ᬯᬭ (wara, “superior”)

Etymology 2

Noun

wara

  1. alternative spelling of awara (“screen”)
Derived terms
  • winara

Etymology 3

Adverb

wara

  1. alternative spelling of wwara (“to be there; to be present”)

Further reading

  • "wara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Polish

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ara
  • Syllabification: wa‧ra

Etymology 1

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Interjection

wara

  1. hands off (used to firmly express a demand that one stop interfering with the development of events concerning what is being discussed)
    Synonym: ręce precz
interjection
verb

Etymology 2

Clipping of warga.

Noun

wara f

  1. (colloquial) augmentative of warga
Declension
Declension of wara
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Etymology 3

Clipping of gwara.

Noun

wara f

  1. (Kielce, Opatów County) synonym of głos

Further reading

  • wara I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wara II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wara in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “wara”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 262

Q'eqchi

Noun

wara

  1. sleep
  • wark (“sleep”, verb)

Further reading

  • Ch'ina tusleb' aatin q'eqchi'-kaxlan aatin ut kaxlan aatin-q'eqchi' (Guatemala, 1998)

Quechua

Noun

wara

  1. pants, jeans

Declension

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Sundanese

Tiruray

Tok Pisin

Woi

Yoruba

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