tuya

See also: túyā

English

Etymology

Coined by Canadian volcanologist Bill Matthews in 1947. Named after Tuya Butte, in British Columbia.^[1][2]

Noun

tuya (plural tuyas)

1. (geology) Table mountain formed during subglacial volcanic eruptions, consisting primarily of a mound of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas erupted subaqueously in an englacial lake, capped by a resistant layer of subaerially-emplaced lava.

   Hypernyms: table mountain, mesa, butte

Related terms

• tindar
• móberg
• glaciovolcanism

Translations

glaciovolcanic table mountain

Icelandic: móbergsstapi m sg (literally “table mountain of peat-colored rock”)

References

1. Mathews, William Henry (1947 September) “Tuyas, Flat-Topped Volcanoes in Northern British Columbia”, in American Journal of Science‎, volume 245, number 9, American Journal of Science, →DOI, archived from the original on 2024-03-29, pages 560-570
2. Russell, J.K., Edwards, B.R., Porritt, Lucy, Ryane, C. (2014 March 1) “Tuyas: a descriptive genetic classification”, in Quaternary Science Reviews‎, volume 87, Elsevier, →DOI, archived from the original on 2023-12-28, page 72: “[Matthews] proposed the term 'tuya' for these flat-topped, steep sided volcanoes after a local aboriginal term used to name several local geographic features.”

Further reading

• tuya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Yuat, Yuta

Asturian

Adjective

tuya

1. feminine singular of tuyu

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈjaʔ/ [tuˈjaʔ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ya

Noun

tuyâ (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜌ)

1. insult

   Synonym: insulto

Derived terms

• magtuya
• tuya-tuya
• tuyaon

 

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Tuya (disambiguation)

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuʝa/ [ˈt̪u.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈtuʝa/ [ˈt̪u.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈtuʃa/ [ˈt̪u.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈtuʒa/ [ˈt̪u.ʒa]

• Rhymes: -uʝa
• Syllabification: tu‧ya

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tua, singular feminine form of tuus (“your”).

Determiner

tuya f sg

1. feminine singular of tuyo

Related terms

possessor		preposed		postposed or standalone
		possessee		possessee
		singular	plural	singular		plural
				masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
First person:	singular:	mi	mis	mío	mía	míos	mías
	plural:	(same as postposed/standalone)		nuestro	nuestra	nuestros	nuestras
Second person (informal):	singular:	tu	tus	tuyo	tuya	tuyos	tuyas
	plural:	(same as postposed/standalone)		vuestro	vuestra	vuestros	vuestras
Third person:		su	sus	suyo	suya	suyos	suyas

    Spanish possessive determiners

Pronoun

tuya f sg

1. feminine singular of tuyo

Related terms

			Possessee
			Singular		Plural
			Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
Possessor	Singular	First person	mío	mía	míos	mías
		Second person	tuyo	tuya	tuyos	tuyas
		Third person	suyo	suya	suyos	suyas
	plural	First person	nuestro	nuestra	nuestros	nuestras
		Second person	vuestro	vuestra	vuestros	vuestras
		Third person	suyo	suya	suyos	suyas

    Spanish possessive pronouns

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin thuja, from Ancient Greek θυία (thuía), an African tree that was formerly included in the genus.

Noun

tuya f (plural tuyas)

1. (botany) (Thuja) thuja

Derived terms

• tuya articulada
• tuya gigante

 

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tuya, from an Athabaskan language.

Noun

tuya f (plural tuyas)

1. (geology) tuya

Further reading

• “tuya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuˈjaʔ/ [t̪ʊˈjaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: tu‧ya

Noun

tuyâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜌ)

1. sarcastic remark; taunt; mockery; jeer

   Synonyms: aglahi, pag-aglahi, pang-aaghali, libak, uyam, uyaw, pag-uyam, pang-uuyam, kutya, pagkutya, pangungutya, atsoy, uroy, wakya

Derived terms

• manuya
• mapanuya
• nakatutuya
• pagtutuyaan
• pagtuya
• pantuya
• panunuya
• panuya
• tumuya
• tuyaan
• tuyain

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuˈja/ [t̪ʊˈja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tu‧ya

Noun

tuyá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜌ)

1. Pouzolzia zeylanica (a type of nettle)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtujaʔ/ [ˈt̪uː.jɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -ujaʔ
• Syllabification: tu‧ya

Noun

tuyà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜌ)

1. game using empty coconut shells

Anagrams

• yuta

Uzbek

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo
Cyrillic	туя‍
Latin	tuya‍
Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tebe (“camel”). Cognate with Uyghur تۆگە (töge) and Turkish deve.

Noun

tuya (plural tuyalar)

1. camel

Waray-Waray

Noun

tuya

1. giant