ligaw

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: li‧gaw

Verb

ligaw

  1. to do something right by accident

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈli.ɡaf/
  • Rhymes: -iɡaf
  • Syllabification: li‧gaw

Noun

ligaw f

  1. genitive plural of ligawa

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈliɡaw/,
  • Hyphenation: li‧gaw

Noun

ligaw (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜄᜏ᜔)

  1. courtship; wooing; courting
    Synonyms: paniningalang-pugad, pangingibig
  2. wooer; suitor
    Synonyms: manliligaw, mangingibig
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rəgaw (“wander, stray”). Compare Pangasinan legaw and Hiligaynon ligaw.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liˈɡaw/,
  • Hyphenation: li‧gaw

Adjective

ligáw (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜄᜏ᜔)

  1. strayed; lost in the way
  2. wild; undomesticated; uncultivated
  3. runaway; untethered; stray; freely roaming (usually of animals)
    Synonyms: alpas, kawala
  4. stray (of bullets)
  5. misguided; wrong
    Synonyms: mali, lisya, lihis
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ligaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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