Etymology Explorer › Kapampangan

Where does “uaua” come from?

uaua (Kapampangan) comes from Proto-Austronesian waqwaq, from Arabic وَقْوَقَ.

Ancestry of “uaua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Austronesianwaqwaq—
2Arabicوَقْوَقَ—
Every word from Arabic وَقْوَقَ →