English

Abbreviation

Va

1. Abbreviation for Virginia.
2. (chemistry, obsolete) virginium
   • 2014, Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, Mary Virginia Orna, The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side (page 328)

     Because he had found six minima for every salt of virginium—VaCl, VaNO3, Va2SO4, and VaOH—he asserted that virginium consisted of a mixture of six stable isotopes.

Anagrams

• AV, Av, Av., av

Albanian

Noun

va m, f

1. ford, anchorage

Derived terms

• vanë

References

1. ↑ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.405

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Provençal, from Latin vānus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a

Adjective

va m ‎(feminine vana, masculine plural vans, feminine plural vanes)

1. vain

Etymology 2

From Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō.

Verb

va

1. third-person singular present indicative form of anar

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

va

1. (cardinal) four

French

Etymology

Respectively from Latin vādit (indicative) and vāde (imperative), forms of vādō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va/

Verb

va

1. third-person singular present active indicative of aller
2. second-person singular imperative of aller

See also

• ça va

Anagrams

• av.

Galician

Adjective

va f sg

1. feminine singular of van

Interlingua

Verb

va

1. present of ir
2. present of vader

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō, and vāde, second-person singular present active imperative of the same verb, respectively.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va/
• Rhymes: -a

Verb

va

1. present indicative third-person singular of andare
2. second-person singular imperative of andare

Japanese

Romanization

va

1. rōmaji reading of ゔぁ
2. rōmaji reading of ヴァ

Lithuanian

Adverb

va

1. there, here

Related terms

• ten
• čia

Lojban

Cmavo

va ‎(rafsi vaz)

1. there

Related terms

• vi
• vu

See also

• ta
• bu'u

Manx

Alternative forms

• v'

Verb

va ‎(dependent form row)

1. past tense of bee
   • Gyn coontey Juan va kiare ayn.
     • Not counting John there were four.
   • Keayrt va mee aeg as nish ta mee shenn.
     • Once I was young and now I am old.
   • She laa fliugh va'n.
     • It was a wet day.
   • Va kiaull ayns my chleayshyn.
     • My ears were singing.
   • Va my noidyn ooilley mygeayrt-y-moom.
     • My enemies were all about me.

Maricopa

Noun

va

1. house

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From iva.

Particle

va

1. (poetic, enclitic) like, as if

References

• va in Pali Text Society (1921–1925), Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead. (licensed under CC-BY-NC)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [va]

Etymology 1

Verb

(el/ea) va ‎(modal auxiliary, third-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

1. (he/she) will

   va fi aici mai târziu?

   will he/she be here later?

Etymology 2

From Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō. It is also rarely used as a second person singular imperative form, meaning "go", from Latin vāde.

Alternative forms

• vă (rare)

Verb

va

1. (to go), only used in mai va (see usage notes).
2. (regional) go (imperative), (plural vați)

Usage notes

The conjugation for this verb is defective, with the only remaining form being va, used in the expression "mai va", meaning "it will take longer or there is more to go (until then)".

Synonyms

• (to go): merge, duce
• (go): du-te, duceți-vă

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vādit, third person singular present active indicative of vādō.

Verb

va

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ir.

Swedish

A står för avlopp

Abbreviation

va

1. water supply and sewage; abbreviation of vatten och avlopp

Related terms

• va-nämnd

Interjection

va

1. huh? what? A request that the speaker repeat his last statement. Contraction of vad.

   Va?

   What did you say?

See also

• vasa

Verb

va

1. (colloquial) Contraction of vara.

Uzbek

Conjunction

va

1. and

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin vādit, vādunt, vādis, and vāde forms of vādō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va/

Verb

va

1. present indicative third-person of ndar
2. (regional) present indicative second-person singular of ndar
3. present imperative second-person singular of ndar