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See also: tawā and Tawa

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi तवा (tavā).

Alternative forms

Noun

tawa (plural tawas)

  1. (South Asia) A frying pan or griddle.
    • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 6:
      Deeti gave her daughter the job of sweeping the poppy petals into a heap while she busied herself in stoking the fire and heating a heavy iron tawa.

Etymology 2

From Maori.

Noun

tawa (plural tawas)

  1. Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

Anagrams

Ajië

Noun

tawa

  1. dog

References

  • Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages

Cebuano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧wa
  • IPA(key): /taˈwa/,

Adjective

tawá

  1. jovial (of face or visage)

Derived terms

Fijian

Pronunciation

Adverb

tawa

  1. un-, a-, dis-, il-, im-, in-, non- (functions similar to a negative English prefix)

Adjective

tawa

  1. inhabited
  2. filled

Verb

tawa (tawa)

  1. (transitive) to inhabit, to populate

tawa (vakatawa)

  1. to watch
  2. to fill

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tawa, from Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ta‧wa

Noun

tawa (first-person possessive tawaku, second-person possessive tawamu, third-person possessive tawanya)

  1. laugh

Derived terms

Verb

tawa

  1. to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tawa (memper-, absolute intransitive, irregular, defective)
Root tawa
Active Involuntary Passive Imperative Jussive
Active – tertawa, ketawa – tawa tawalah
Locative menertawai – ditertawai – –
Causative / Applicative1 menertawakan tertawakan ditertawakan tertawakan, tawakan tertawakanlah
Causative
Active mempertawa – – – –
Locative mempertawai – dipertawai – –
Causative / Applicative1 mempertawakan – dipertawakan – –
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
This verb however, takes the prefix ter- in locative and benefactive. For some reasons, some forms of the locative do not exist. Ketawa only exists in informal language.
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.
  • Although morphologically involuntary, the form tertawa and tertawakan is used lexically as an active form.

Further reading

Karao

Noun

tawa

  1. window

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa.

Pronunciation

Verb

tawa (Jawi spelling تاوا)

  1. to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)
    Synonym: gelak

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

Descendants

  • Indonesian: tawa

Further reading

Mehek

Noun

tawa

  1. woman

References

  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Nheengatu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi taba (“village, city”), from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.

Cognate with Portuguese taba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.wa/
  • Rhymes: -awa
  • Hyphenation: ta‧wa

Noun

tawa

  1. city

References

  1. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 569

Further reading

  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica‎ (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Páginas & Letras, →ISBN

Pahi

Noun

tawa

  1. woman

References

  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Quechua

Quechua cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : tawa

Numeral

tawa

  1. four

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa. Compare Malay tawa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taˈwa/, (adjective)
  • Hyphenation: ta‧wa

Noun

tawa (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏ)

  1. laugh; laughing; laughter
    Synonyms: halakhak, hagakgak, halikhik, alik-ik, agik-ik, hagalhal, hilhil, sagaak

Derived terms

See also

Adjective

tawá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏ)

  1. prone to laughing
    Synonym: palatawa

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*Cawa”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Anagrams

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

tawa

  1. third-person singular present/future of tewi

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
tawa dawa nhawa thawa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Wolio

Pronunciation

Noun

tawa

  1. leaf

References

  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris
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