kawa
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of kawa
Māori
Example Sentences
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“The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021
The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus it was that he learned little more than one sentence of Japanese�Kono kawa ka?
From Time Magazine Archive
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"This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river," she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But the most gorgeous of all flowering trees, as distinguished from creepers, is the sea-loving pohutu kawa.
From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember
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