"שווא" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Hebrew]

IPA: /ˈʃva/ [Modern-Israeli-Hebrew] Forms: שְׁוָא [canonical], shva [romanization], šəwɔʾ [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫܘܳܝܳܐ (š'waya, literally “even, equal”), in Syriac a term for a sign consisting of two vertical dots used to separate parts of a sentence. Etymology templates: {{bor|he|syc|ܫܘܳܝܳܐ|lit=even, equal|tr=š'waya}} Classical Syriac ܫܘܳܝܳܐ (š'waya, literally “even, equal”) Head templates: {{he-noun|dwv=שְׁוָא|g=m|tr=shva, šəwɔʾ}} שווא / שְׁוָא • (shva, šəwɔʾ) m
  1. the Hebrew diacritical mark shva (ִ◌ְ) Categories (topical): Diacritical marks
    Sense id: en-שווא-he-noun-CwfpzX5h Disambiguation of Diacritical marks: 63 24 5 9 Categories (other): Hebrew entries with incorrect language header, Hebrew entries with topic categories using raw markup, Hebrew terms belonging to the root שׁ־ו־א Disambiguation of Hebrew entries with incorrect language header: 65 11 8 16 Disambiguation of Hebrew entries with topic categories using raw markup: 73 8 10 10 Disambiguation of Hebrew terms belonging to the root שׁ־ו־א: 79 13 3 4
  2. schwa (unstressed vowel sound)
    Sense id: en-שווא-he-noun-mG2~wKS4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Hebrew]

Forms: שָׁוְא [canonical], shav [romanization]
Etymology: Root שׁ־ו־א (š-w-ʾ) Etymology templates: {{l|he|שׁ־ו־א|tr=š-w-ʾ}} שׁ־ו־א (š-w-ʾ), {{HE root|שׁוא}} Root שׁ־ו־א (š-w-ʾ) Head templates: {{he-noun|dwv=שָׁוְא|g=m|tr=shav}} שווא / שָׁוְא • (shav) m
  1. falsehood, futility
    Sense id: en-שווא-he-noun-7xkD~zbz
  2. (literary) emptiness, vanity, uselessness, pointlessness Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-שווא-he-noun-aYehFgx~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: לשווא (lasháv), לַשָּׁוְא (lasháv)
Etymology number: 2

Noun [Yiddish]

Forms: shvo [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|yi|noun|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=|tr=shvo}} שווא • (shvo) m, {{yi-noun|g=m|tr=shvo}} שווא • (shvo) m
  1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of שוואָ (shvo). Tags: nonstandard

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.