roa

roa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Romance languages.

roa

1. genitive singular of roog

From Old Galician-Portuguese roda, from Latin rota (“wheel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈroa/
• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: ro‧a

roa f (plural roas)

1. wheel

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

roa

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of roer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ɾua/

• rua

roa

1. rice seedling after removal from seedbed or after transplanting

• rua

roa

1. to mate (of animals)

• rua

roa

1. to dance

From Raetic.

roa f (plural roes)

1. landslide

Malagasy cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : roa     Ordinal : faharoa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

roa

1. two

From Proto-Polynesian *loa, cognate with Hawaiian loa and Tahitian roa.

roa

1. long
2. tall
3. slow

• Aotearoa

• roa Te Aka Māori-English, English-Māori Dictionary and Index.
• Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 420-1

roa

1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

• roen (of noun)
• roet (of verb)

roa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of ro

roa

1. inflection of roe:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From ro f (“calm, quiet”).

roa (present tense roar, past tense roa, past participle roa, passive infinitive roast, present participle roande, imperative roa/ro)

1. (transitive) to calm
2. (reflexive) to calm down

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

roa f

1. definite singular of ro

• “roa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• O-ar, o-ar, ora

roa

1. inflection of roer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Proto-Polynesian *loa.

roa

1. long

• IPA^(key): /ˈroa/ [ˈro.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: ro‧a

roa f (plural roas)

1. Synonym of roda

roa

1. inflection of roer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “roa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

ro +‎ -a, from Old Swedish ro (“rest”), German ruhe with a secondary meaning in Danish and Swedish of entertainment, pastime (during the rest)

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roa (present roar, preterite roade, supine roat, imperative roa)

1. to amuse, to entertain

   Farfar roade dom med fräckisar

   Grandpa entertained them with dirty jokes

   Att se på när andra arbetar roar henne

   Watching others work amuses her

2. (archaic, intransitive, reflexive) to rest

• oro
• oroa
• rolig

• roa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• roa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• roa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• 2. ro in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From Proto-Polynesian *loa.

roa

1. long (time or space)

roa

1. very (intensity mark)

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “roa” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.