cua

Inherited from Vulgar Latin cōda, early monophthongized variant of Latin cauda. Compare Occitan coa, French queue, Spanish cola.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈku.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈku.a]

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cua f (plural cues)

1. tail
2. queue, (line)

   les italianes es van saltar la cua ― the Italian girls skipped the line

3. ponytail (hairdo)

• “cua” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• qua

• IPA^(key): /kʷa/

cua

1. (transitive) To eat.

• tlacualli

cua

1. Alternative form of cova (“tail”)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kuə˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kuə˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kuə˧˧]

(classifier con) cua • (𧍏, 𧍆, 姑, 𩸰)

1. crab (a crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura)

• dã tràng (“sand-bubbler crab”); ghẹ (“swimming crab”); cúm (“Calappa”)
• càng (“pincer”)

Borrowed from French courtiser or French cour.

cua

1. (Southern Vietnam, slang) to take out a girl

   Synonym: cưa

Borrowed from French cours.

cua

1. (dated, informal) corner, curve, bend (point where a route changes sharply)

   Xe chạy qua cua. ― The car rounded a corner.

2. (informal) period, term, round (period of time required to complete a task)

   theo học một cua ngoại ngữ ― to study a foreign language for a term

   Học mỗi cua ba tháng. ― Each term of study is three months.

cua

1. (informal) having a buzzcut, crewcut

   đầu húi cua ― a buzzcut haircut

• "cua" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

• IPA^(key): /cuə̯˧/

From Proto-Hmong *cu̯aᶜ (“to chew”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 嚼 (MC dzjak, “to chew”).^[1]

cua

1. to chew hard, bite hard (on something)

   Tus aub cua pob txha. ― The dog chews on bone.

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *N-cæwH (“wind”).^[2]

cua (classifier: tw or nthwv (for gusts))

1. the wind

   Cov cua tshuab ceev heev ― The wind blows very fast

   Cov cua twj cuab huv dua cua nruab nroog. ― The air in the suburbs is cleaner than the air in the city.

2. (figuratively) the carrier of death, normally represented by the bamboo carriage made to carry the dead

   Nws lub tsev muaj cua. ― His home has death.

   Nws ua neeb xa cua. ― He performs a shaman ritual to send away death.

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 18.