uta

Clipping of English Utanga.

uta

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Otank.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Otank terms

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uta (uncountable)

1. cutaneous leishmaniasis

Borrowed from Japanese うた.

uta (plural utas or uta)

1. A kind of Japanese poem.

• uta monogatari

• AUT, UAT, aut-, tau

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

uta class 14 (plural mauta class 6)

1. bow (for arrows)

• wolasa ndi uta (“archer”)
• uta wa Leza (“rainbow, spectrum”)
• mbalame ikatera pauta silasika

• Steven Paas (2016), Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎^[3], Oxford University Press, page 561

uta

1. to stand up

ūta

1. romanization of 𐌿𐍄𐌰

uta

1. Rōmaji transcription of うた

uta

1. to vomit

-uta (infinitive kouta)

1. to come from

• IPA^(key): /ˈuta/ [ˈʉtɐ]

From Proto-Polynesian *quta (compare with Hawaiian uka and Tongan ʻuta), from Proto-Oceanic *qutan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qutan (compare with Malay hutan (“jungle, forest”) and Iban utan (“ibid.”)), from Proto-Austronesian *quCaN (“scrubland, bush”).^[1][2][3]

uta

1. interior (the inside regions of a country or island)
2. land (from a sea or water perspective)
3. the shore

uta

1. inland (from a coastal perspective)
2. ashore

A location word, or locative, which follows immediately after particles such as ki, i, hei and kei or is preceded by a when used as the subject of the sentence.

From Proto-Polynesian *uta (compare with Tahitian uta “to carry cargo on any vehicle”, Samoan uta and Tongan uta “cargo, freight”) from Proto-Oceanic *(ʀ)ucan “load, cargo, freight” ~ *ujan “cargo; load a canoe” (compare with Fijian usa “to carry freight”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lujan (“cargo; to load on a canoe” – compare with Makasar lurang “load, cargo, freight, passenger”, Buginese lureng, Mandar rurang, Tagalog lulan “cargo, load”).^[1][2]

uta

1. load
2. contribution
3. freight, cargo
4. import; export

   uta mai ― import

   uta atu ― export

uta (passive utaina)

1. to load on, put on (passengers or cargo on vehicles)

   Synonym: whakauta

2. to contribute

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “uta”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 552
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “uta”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[4], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

uta

1. tick (tiny woodland arachnid)

From Proto-Polynesian *quta, from Proto-Oceanic *qutan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qutan, from Proto-Austronesian *quCaN (“scrubland, bush”).

uta

1. land (as opposed to the sea)

• ngāuta (“ashore; on land”)
• Uta

From Proto-Polynesian *uta, from Proto-Oceanic *(ʀ)ucan (“load, cargo, freight”).

uta

1. to load onto, lift up, place on

   Uta atu ake aku niu ia ki lunga o tō poti nā.

   Please will you lift up my coconuts onto your boat?

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

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uta class XI (plural nyuta class X)

1. bow (for arrows)

   Synonym: upinde

   • 2017 August 18, “Chakula cha Wahadzabe cha matunda na nungunungu Tanzania”, in BBC News Swahili‎^[5]:

     Baada ya kukabidhi uta, mshale na shoka lake kwa mwindaji mwenzake wa Hadzabe, Zigwadzee alishika fimbo fupi iliyochongoka na akaingia shimoni.

     After handing over his bow, arrow and ax to his fellow Hadzabe hunter, Zigwadzee grabbed a short pointed stick and entered the pit.

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

uta class 14 (plural mauta)

1. bow (for arrows)

• Ciuta (“God”)

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[6], Central Africana Limited, page 135

uta

1. bird

• Barlow, Russell (2023), A grammar of Ulwa (Papua New Guinea), Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 681

• ita (Ilajẹ, Ọwọ, Ikalẹ)

From u- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ ta (“to be spicy”).

• IPA^(key): /ū.tā/
• (Ekiti) IPA^(key): /ʊ̄.tā/

uta

1. (Ào, Ekiti) alternative form of ata (“pepper”)