awa
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Ava (“Burmese city”).
name
A city in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
name
Example Sentences
- "The manner of preparing awa is peculiarly disgusting. The root is chewed by women, and the spit out well-chewed mouthfuls into a calabash."
- "The awa plant is a species of pepper, the piper methysticum of the botanist, and is described as having fleshy stems from two to three feet high."
- "The majority say that there is little awa growing wild on Government lands, the bulk of that at present in the market being obtained from cultivated patches."
- "The Hawaiian gods were supposed to be particularly addicted to the use of awa. Songs were sung in praise of the drink."
- "When the prayer had finished, the awa was drunk and the sacred feast then began."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ Proto-Polynesian *kawa Hawaiian ʻawabor. English awa Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻawa.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: 阿波