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English
Verb
dawb (third-person singular simple present dawbs, present participle dawbing, simple past and past participle dawbed)
- Archaic form of daub.
Noun
dawb (plural dawbs)
- Archaic form of daub.
Anagrams
White Hmong
Etymology
From Proto-Hmong *qlowᴬ (“white”).[1] The "free" sense is perhaps a semantic loan from Thai ขาว (kǎao, “white”) or Lao ຂາວ (khāo, “white”), both which have a colloquial usage meaning "free of charge".
Pronunciation
Adjective
dawb
- white
- (both literally and figurately) clean
- of or relating to Caucasian
Adjective
dawb
- free of charge
- not requiring any payment
- unoccupied, idle
Adverb
dawb
- free of charge
- without any payment being required
Derived terms
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 243; 274.