dawa

From Swahili dawa (“medicine”).

dawa (plural dawas)

1. (East Africa) A medicine, particularly a native one or one used by witch doctors.
2. (Kenya) A cocktail made with vodka, honey, and lime juice.

• Hyphenation: da‧wa

dawa

1. millet

• (millet): kabog

dāwā̀ f (plural dāwōyī, possessed form dāwàr̃)

1. sorghum

dawà m (possessed form dawàn)

1. the bush, the woods

• IPA^(key): [ˈdawa]

dawa

1. third-person singular present of dawaś

dawa

1. lawsuit; a dispute carried before a court or authority.

• “Dawa” in Jonathan Rigg, A Dictionary of the Sunda language (1862), page 103.

From Arabic دَوَاء‎ (dawāʾ).

dawa (n class, plural dawa) or dawa (ma class, plural madawa)

1. medicine

In its strictest sense, this word means "medicine", but is used generally for anything that improves or protects the condition of another thing; for example dawa ya viatu (“dawa of the shoes”) means "shoe polish".

dawa

1. Soft mutation of tawa.