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Cebuano
Etymology
Compare hinawnaw.
The idiomatic sense is from The Bible's account of Pontius Pilate washing his hands and refusing to condemn Jesus.
Pronunciation
Verb
hinaw
- to wash one's hands or another's
- (idiomatic) to wash one's hands of; to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:hinaw.
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hiñaw, from Proto-Austronesian *Siñaw.
Pronunciation
Noun
hináw or hinaw (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜈᜏ᜔) (now dialectal, Batangas, Quezon)
- washing of one's hands or feet
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “hinaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Siñaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI