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Cebuano
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtawaɡ/
- Hyphenation: ta‧wag
Verb
tawag
- to call
Derived terms
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawaʀ. Compare Casiguran Dumagat Agta tawah, Ibaloi tawal, Cebuano tawag, and Tausug tawag.
Pronunciation
Noun
tawag (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏᜄ᜔)
- act of calling someone (by name or by signalling)
- act of calling on the telephone, telegram, etc.
- Synonyms: pagtelepono, pagtelegrama
- telephone call
May tawag ka.- You have a phone call.
- term; identifying name; what something is called
- Synonyms: katawagan, pangalan, ngalan
Ano'ng tawag dito?- What is the name for this?
- (law) call; summons
- Synonyms: patawag, pasundo
- roll call
- Synonym: pasalista
- banns (announcement of a forthcoming marriage)
- Synonym: tawag sa kasal
- announcement (as by a loud crier)
- Synonyms: bando, pagbabando
- doctor's call or visit (especially on request by someone)
- Synonyms: dalaw, pagdalaw, bisita, pagbisita
- fee for a doctor's call or visit
- Synonym: subida
- (cockfighting) announcement of the rate of betting (as by a tahor or a kristo)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tawag”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Anagrams
Tausug
Verb
tawag
- to call