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Tagalog
Pronunciation
Noun
sapaw (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜉᜏ᜔)
- (colloquial, figurative) overshadowing; upstaging; outdoing
- first appearance or surfacing of spikes of grain (especially of rice plants)
- spikes of grain that have just surfaced (on a rice field)
- spreading over (of vines on a trellis)
- first fruits of a tree
- early season fruiting
- (pathology) surfacing of skin diseases (as from an allergy)
- (pathology) drying up or cicatrizing of a skin disease
- cooking of something placed on the surface of rice being cooked on a pot (especially eggs)
- something cooked in such a manner (especially eggs)
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