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kawa

kawa is the alternative form of kava.

Meaning of kava

Noun

kava (countable and uncountable, plural kavas)

  1. Any member of the species Piper methysticum, a plant from the South Pacific.
  2. An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.
    • The roots produce a liqueur called kava. Kava has a mild aphrodisiac effect.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 132

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Noun

kawa (uncountable)

  1. Maori customs and protocol.

Proper noun capitalized: Kawa

Kawa (plural Kawas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of kawa

pluralKawas

Origin of kawa

Borrowed from Māori kawa.

* From Polish Kawa, from kawa (“jackdaw”), a back-formation from kawka (“jackdaw”), from Proto-Slavic *kavъka. Alternatively, from kawa (“coffee”). * From Japanese かわ.

Phrases with kawa

Questions about kawa

What does kawa mean?
Kawa means maori customs and protocol.
What is kawa the alternative form of?
Kawa is the alternative form of kava.
What part of speech is kawa?
Kawa can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near kawa in the dictionary

  1. Kavvahuttaa
  2. kavvanah
  3. kavya
  4. kaw
  5. Kaw City
  6. kawa
  7. kawabonga
  8. Kawachi
  9. kawachibuna
  10. Kawagoe
  11. Kawaguchi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kawa (page history and authors); Kawa (page history and authors); kava (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.

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