See cava in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"translation": "whatever, whichever",
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"word": "ena veivanua cava ga"
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"translation": "how to do it?",
"word": "me caka vakacava"
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"translation": "what?, say that again?; blunt",
"word": "na cava?"
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"word": "vakacava o koya"
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"word": "baleta na cava?"
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"translation": "whatever, whichever",
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"translation": "in whatever places",
"word": "ena veivanua cava ga"
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"translation": "how to do it?",
"word": "me caka vakacava"
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"translation": "what?, say that again?; blunt",
"word": "na cava?"
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"english": "how is s/he doing?",
"translation": "how is s/he doing?",
"word": "vakacava o koya"
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"translation": "how?, how are things?, what's up?",
"word": "vakacava?"
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Central Pacific *avaa, from Proto-Oceanic *apaʀat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *abaʀat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *abaʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habaʀat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sabaʀat. Cognates include Western Fijian cavā and Tongan afā.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cavā",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fj",
"2": "noun",
"head": "cavā"
},
"expansion": "cavā",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Fijian",
"lang_code": "fj",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"english": "hurricane, cyclone; murderous wind",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "hurricane, cyclone; murderous wind",
"word": "cagilaba"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"fj:Meteorology"
],
"glosses": [
"a storm of wind, hurricane; a heavy gale accompanied by rain"
],
"links": [
[
"meteorology",
"meteorology"
],
[
"storm",
"storm"
],
[
"wind",
"wind"
],
[
"hurricane",
"hurricane"
],
[
"gale",
"gale"
],
[
"rain",
"rain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(meteorology) a storm of wind, hurricane; a heavy gale accompanied by rain"
],
"topics": [
"climatology",
"meteorology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "cava"
}
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