-wa

-wa

1. Rōmaji transcription of わ

• IPA^(key): /wa/

-wa

1. Post-back vowel allomorphic form of -jə (an evidential suffix marking verifiable action).

See the lemma.

• IPA^(key): /wa/
• Homophone: -ha

-wa

1. Alternative form of -a (feminine, plural, or singulative ending), used with stems ending in -u, -w.

-wa

1. Used to mark nouns as definite, thereby making it equivalent to English the

   ‎war (“canoe”) + ‎-wa → ‎warwa (“the canoe”)

From Proto-Bantu *-úa.

-wa

1. Forms passive verbs.

When affixed to monosyllabic stems, the suffix becomes -iwa.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-vъ.

• IPA^(key): /va/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: wa

-wa f

1. forms feminine nouns

   ‎prukać + ‎-wa → ‎prukwa

• -wa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• -iwa/-ewa
• -liwa/-lewa

From Proto-Bantu *-úa.

-wa

1. passive suffix

   ‎-tuma (“to send”) + ‎-wa → ‎-tumwa (“to be sent”)

   ‎-jaa (“to fill”) + ‎-wa → ‎-jawa (“to be filled”)

This suffix is often similar in meaning to the stative suffix -ika/-eka, but it differs in that it can take an agent preceded by na:

Kiti kimevunjika. ― The chair is broken.

Kiti kimevunjwa na mtoto. ― The chair has been broken by the child.

• Swahili passive verbs

From Proto-Bantu *-úa.

-wa

1. Forms passive verbs.

When affixed to monosyllabic stems, the suffix becomes -iwa.

From Proto-Bantu *-úa.

-wa

1. Forms passive verbs.

When affixed to monosyllabic stems, the suffix becomes -iwa.

From Proto-Bantu *-ʊa.

-wa

1. Forms passive verbs.

When affixed to monosyllabic stems, the suffix becomes -iwa.

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “-wa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-wa”