guya
See also: guþa
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Persian گویا (guyâ, “perhaps, it seems”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɟu(ː)jɑ/, (as if spelled güyə) /ˈɟyjæ/
- Hyphenation: gu‧ya
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Particle
guya
- allegedly, supposedly; as if
- Niyə soruşursan? Guya cavabını özün bilmirsən.
- Why are you asking? As if you don't know the answer yourself.
- Sevmədiyi bir nəfər öləndə, yalandan ağladı, guya qanı qaralmışdı.
- When someone s/he didn't like died, s/he fake-cried, as if s/he were sad.
Dhuwal
Etymology
From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuya.
Noun
guya
- fish
Gamilaraay
guya
Etymology
From Proto-Central New South Wales *guya, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuya.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡuja/
Noun
guya
- fish
- guya nhama gubiyaanha
- the fish is swimming.
- mari yanawaanha bagaaygu guya ganmaligu
- The men are going to the creek to catch fish.
References
- Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)
- (2015). “Ma Gamilaraay”
Hiligaynon
Noun
guya
- (anatomy) face
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Hokkien 牛仔 (gû-iá, “young calf”),[1] with an obsolete form of the suffix.[2][3] Compare kuya.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gu‧ya
- IPA(key): /ˈɡujaʔ/, [ˈɡu.jɐʔ]
Noun
guyà
- calf (young of a cow or carabao)
- Synonyms: bisiro, bulo
References
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 134
- Medhurst, Walter Henry (1832) A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language: According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing about 12,000 Characters (in English & Hokkien), Macau: East India Press, page 736
- Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, volume 1-2, Manila: University of Santo Tomás Archives, 1604