वा

वा (vā)

1. feminine of वो (vo)

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː/, [ʋäː]

Borrowed from Classical Persian وا (wā).

वा • (vā) (Urdu spelling وا)

1. (poetic) open

   वा करना ― vā karnā ― to open

   • Brij Narayan Chakbast, रामायण का एक सीन:

     इक दफ़्तर-ए-मज़ालिम-ए-चर्ख़-ए-कुहन खुला
     वा था दहान-ए-ज़ख़्म कि बाब-ए-सुख़न खुला

     ik daftar-e-mazālim-e-carx-e-kuhan khulā
     vā thā dahān-e-zaxma ki bāb-e-suxan khulā

     A scroll of tyrannies of the ancient heavens opened
     The mouths of wounds were now wide open, that the gates of parley were also unbarred

Borrowed from Sanskrit वा (vā).

वा • (vā) (Urdu spelling وا)

1. (formal, rare) or

   Synonyms: अथवा (athvā), (more common) या (yā)

   • 2007, Dharmadatt Vaidh, Charaksamhita, Uttro Bhag [Volume 1], page 101:

     ...एक बार प्रयोग के पश्चात् एक दिन के वा दो दिन के अंतर से...

     ...ek bār prayog ke paścāt ek din ke vā do din ke antar se...

     ...an interval of one or two days after using for first time....

वा • (vā) (Urdu spelling وا)

1. Misspelling of वाँ (vā̃).

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Sanskrit वा (vā).

वा • (vā) (Latin script va, Kannada script ವಾ)

1. or

• IPA^(key): [wa]

वा • (wā) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐰𑐵)

1. rain

Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa.

वा • (wā) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐰𑐵)

1. tooth

वा (vā)

1. Devanagari script form of vā
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[1], page 6; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     या च पन सक्कतगन्थेसु समञ्ञा घोसाति वाघोसाति वा ता पयोगे सति एत्थापि पयुज्जते

     Yā ca pana sakkataganthesu samaññā ghosāti vāghosāti vā tā payoge sati etthāpi payujjate.

     And moreover that designation either 'voiced' or 'unvoiced' which is in Sanskrit texts is applied even here when there is occasion.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː/

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *-wā (“or”), from Proto-Indo-European *-wē (“or”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬁 (vā), Old Persian 𐎺𐎠 (v-a /⁠vā⁠/), Ancient Greek ἤ (ḗ) and Latin -ve.

वा • (vā)

1. or
2. or, preferably (marking the preferred of two alternatives) (Pāṇini)

• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀯 (va /⁠vā⁠/)
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀯𑀸 (vā)
• → Assamese: বা (ba)
• → Bengali: বা (ba)
• Pali: vā
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: वा (vā)
  • Urdu: وا (vā)
• → Kannada: ವಾ (vā)
• Konkani: वा (vā)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

वा • (√vā)

1. to blow

• निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown out, extinguished; nirvana”)
• वाति (vāti, “to blow”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “वा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0934.

Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bja ~ bra (“bird”).

वा (wa)

1. hen, chicken

• “वा”, in याम्फु - नेपाली - अङ्ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Yamphu - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2019.