Word.ws English Dictionary

aua

aua noun: aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.

Noun

aua (plural aua)

  1. (New Zealand) Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.
    • When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.1855, Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui: Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, page 133
    • The Picton Herring, a dried fish commonly known throughout the colony, is the Aua preserved by smoking.1872, Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Sir James Hector, Fishes of New Zealand: Catalogue with Diagnoses of the Species

Proper noun capitalized: AUA

AUA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Austrian Airlines, the ICAO code of the flag carrier of Austria and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group.

Phrase capitalized: AUA

AUA

  1. (Internet, slang) ask us anything

Forms of aua

pluralaua

Origin of aua

Borrowed from Māori aua.

Questions about aua

What does aua mean?
Aua means aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.
What part of speech is aua?
Aua can be a noun, a proper noun or a phrase.
What is the plural of aua?
The plural of aua is aua.

Words near aua in the dictionary

  1. au pairs
  2. au reservoir
  3. au revoir
  4. Au Train
  5. Au.D.
  6. aua
  7. AUASS
  8. AUB
  9. aubade
  10. aubades
  11. aubaine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aua (page history and authors); AUA (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-AUA.ogg.

Cite this entry: “aua.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/aua. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.