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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Verb
ligaw
- to do something right by accident
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Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈli.ɡaf/
- Rhymes: -iɡaf
- Syllabification: li‧gaw
Noun
ligaw f
- genitive plural of ligawa
Tagalog
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
ligaw (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜄᜏ᜔)
- courtship; wooing; courting
- Synonyms: paniningalang-pugad, pangingibig
- wooer; suitor
- Synonyms: manliligaw, mangingibig
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rəgaw (“wander, stray”). Compare Pangasinan legaw and Hiligaynon ligaw.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ligáw (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜄᜏ᜔)
- strayed; lost in the way
- wild; undomesticated; uncultivated
- runaway; untethered; stray; freely roaming (usually of animals)
- Synonyms: alpas, kawala
- stray (of bullets)
- misguided; wrong
- Synonyms: mali, lisya, lihis
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ligaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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