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Definitions and meaning of qua

qua

Etymology 1

From Latin quā (“in the capacity of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɑː/

  Rhymes: -ɑː

• IPA^(key): /kweɪ/

  Rhymes: -eɪ

Preposition

qua

1. (chiefly philosophy) as; in the capacity of; acting as
   • 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)

     As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.

   • 1962: Norman Malcolm; Dreaming; chapter nine: “Judgments in Sleep”, page 39^{1}; chapter twelve: “The Concept of Dreaming”, page 68^{2} (1977 paperback reprint; Routledge & Kegan Paul; ISBN 0‒7100‒3836‒4 (c), 0‒7100‒8434‒X (p))

     ^{1} For sleep qua sleep has no experiential content: it cannot turn out, as remarked before, that a man was not asleep because he was not having some experience or other.

     ^{2} I am denying that a dream qua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’.

   • 2005: Ulfelder, Jay.Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes. International Political Science Review, 26(3), p318. Retrieved 1615 240810 from http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/30039035.pdf?acceptTC=true.

     "In essence, military regimes are autocracies in which the military qua organization performs many of the functions performed by the ruling party in single-party regimes."

   • 2009: Ken Levy, Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Georgia Law Review, p. 24.

     Blame qua attitude is the feeling or belief that an individual has committed a wrongdoing, usually a wrongful action and/or harm, and can be reasonably expected not to have committed this wrongdoing. Blame qua practice is the public expression of this attitude – usually by means of censure (written or verbal criticism) or punishment. Generally, the morally worse the wrongdoing, the more severe the censure/punishment.

Translations

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Interjection

qua

1. The cawing sound of a crow.

Anagrams

• QAU, UAQ

Classical Nahuatl

Verb

qua

1. Alternative spelling of cua

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kvaː/, [kʰvæːˀ]
• Rhymes: -aː

Conjunction

qua

1. as, qua (in the capacity of)
2. (as a preposition) by virtue of (because of)

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin quā (“in the capacity of, by which, as far as”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aː

Preposition

qua

1. regarding, concerning, in terms of

Synonyms

• wat ... betreft

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kvaː/

Preposition

qua

1. (formal) by

   Synonyms: durch, mittels, kraft

   qua Gesetz ― by law

Usage notes

Sometimes used with the genitive:

qua Amtes ― ex officio (literally, “by office”)

Further reading

• “qua” in Duden online
• “qua” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hokkien

Alternative forms

• koaⁿ

Etymology

The suffix has been used since around the 17th and 18th century. Since "hong" (行) merchants were technically officials of the lowest (9th) rank, the suffix qua was added to their names in honour of their positions in the Qing government.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuã˥˥]

Suffix

qua

1. Irregular romanization of of 官 (“official”)

Usage notes

• Formerly added to names of hong merchants (i.e. "Powqua," "Chinqua").

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French qui, que, Italian che, Spanish que, ultimately from Latin quī / quid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwa/

Pronoun

qua (plural qui)

1. (relative pronoun) which

   Esis tre jentila homo qua helpis ni. ― It was a nice man who helped us.

2. (interrogative pronoun) who

   Qua esas ita kerlo? ― Who is that guy? (direct question)

   Me ne konocas qua ita esas. ― I don't know who that is. (indirect question)

Determiner

qua

1. (interrogative determiner) what

   Qua kamizo vu portos? ― What shirt are you going to wear?

Derived terms

• quo (“what (thing)”)
• qui (“who (plural)”)
• pro quo (“why”)

See also

• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quala (“what kind of”)
  • quale (“how”)
• quanta (“how much”)
  • quanto (“quantity”)

Italian

Alternative forms

• quà (misspelling)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum hāc. Related to Portuguese cá, Spanish acá, French çà.

The original geminated -cc-, though lost in the standard language, is still found in most regional Italian varieties.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwa/^*
• (regional) IPA^(key): ^*/ˈkwa/^*
• Rhymes: -a

Adverb

qua

1. here

   Synonym: qui

Usage notes

• For differences between qua and qui, see notes at qui.

Derived terms

• quassù
• quaggiù

See also

• là, lì

Further reading

• qua in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• qua² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb declined from quī. Diachronically, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷéh₂; compare Ancient Greek πῇ (pêi), πῆ (pê, “which way, how”) and Latin quam.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷa/, [kʷä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa/, [kwäː]

Adverb

quā (not comparable)

1. On which side, at or in which place, in what direction, where, by what way (qua...ea...)
2. as; in the capacity or character of
3. In so far as

   ens qua ens ― being as being

4. In what way, how, by what method; to what degree or extent
   1. (indefinite, after sī, nisi, num, nē) anyway, anyhow, in any way

Related terms

Etymology 2

Inflection of quī (“who, which”).

Pronunciation

• quā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷaː/, [kʷäː]
• qua: (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷa/, [kʷä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa/, [kwäː]

Pronoun

quā

1. ablative feminine singular of quī

Pronoun

qua

1. inflection of quī:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

Usage notes

• qua is commonly used for quae in the above forms of the indefinite variant of the pronoun quī.

Etymology 3

Inflection of quis (“anyone, something, anyone, anything”).

Pronoun

quā

1. ablative feminine singular of quis

References

• “qua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “qua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• qua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Allen, Joseph Henry, Greenough, James B. (1903) Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar for schools and colleges: founded on comparative grammar, Boston: Ginn and Company, § 149

Middle English

Pronoun

qua

1. (Northern) Alternative form of who (“who”, nominative)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin quā.

Preposition

qua

1. qua; as, in capacity of

References

• “qua” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “qua” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin quā.

Preposition

qua

1. qua; as, in capacity of

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat.

Pronoun

qua

1. obsolete spelling of kva

References

• “qua” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Adverb

qua

1. here

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kwaː˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [kwaː˦˥]

Etymology 1

Noun

qua (瓜)

1. lemon
2. squash

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

qua

1. pillar

   slâu qua ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

References

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[3][4] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[5] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kwaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kwaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [waː˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 過 (“pass”). Doublet of quá.

Preposition

qua

1. through, across (from one side to the other)

   ô-tô chạy qua cầu ― the car crosses the bridge

   xe vượt qua đèo ― the car crosses the mountain pass

   nhìn qua cửa sổ ― to look through the window

   nhảy qua mương ― to hop across the ditch

   lật qua trang khác ― to flip to another page

2. by way of
3. by means of, by, over, using

   nói chuyện qua điện thoại ― to converse over the telephone

   học tập qua kinh nghiệm ― to learn by experience

   hiểu biết qua thực tế ― to understand through reality

Adjective

qua

1. last (most recent)

   (folk poetry)

2. ago (before now)

Synonyms

• (last): vừa rồi
• (past): trước

Derived terms

Verb

qua • (戈)

1. (intransitive) to have transpire, to take place

   tai qua nạn khỏi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   nhắc lại việc đã qua ― to recall events that have transpired

2. (intransitive) to go over to; to spend time at

3. (transitive) to survive

4. (transitive) to escape, to elude

5. (transitive) to cross (to move relatively); to traverse

   (folk poetry)

6. (transitive) to go to the front of

   (folk poetry)

7. (transitive) to overcome

   khôn chẳng qua lẽ, khỏe chẳng qua lời ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

8. (intransitive) to drift past; to elapse

Synonyms

• (to cross): đi qua
• (to drift past): trôi qua

Derived terms

Adverb

qua

1. across (from one side to the other), through

   nhìn qua ― to look past

   nhảy qua ― to hop across

2. in passing

   dặn qua mấy lời ― to give a few words of advice in passing

3. cursorily, superficially

   biết qua thế thôi ― to know a thing or two about it

   đọc qua vài trang ― to skim over a few pages

4. completely

Etymology 2

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 我 (SV: ngã); borrowed from a Sinitic variety with denasalization.

Pronoun

qua

1. (archaic, men's speech or Southern Vietnam) I; me

Synonyms

• (I): ta, tôi

Etymology 3

Romanization

qua

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 戈
2. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 冎
3. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 瘑
4. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 蜗
5. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 薖
6. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 檛
7. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 挝
8. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 涡
9. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 騧
10. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 渦
11. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 堝
12. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 瘸
13. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 簻
14. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 咼
15. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 撾
16. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 濄
17. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 过
18. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 胍
19. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 過
20. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 剐
21. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 㧓
22. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 呙
23. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 埚
24. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 瓜
25. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 㳡
26. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 叧
27. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 剮
28. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 蝸
29. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 緺
30. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 髽
31. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 找

References

• "qua" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)
• An Chi (17 March 2019). "Lắt léo chữ nghĩa: Nguồn gốc của đại từ QUA". Thanh Niên.

Source: wiktionary.org