bawa

bawa

1. older sibling

• Ilana Mushin, A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)

• IPA^(key): /báː.wàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [báː.wàː]

bāwā̀ m (feminine bâiwā, plural bāyī, possessed form bāwàn)

1. slave

• bàutā
• bautar
• bawan Allah

From Malay bawa, from Classical Malay bawa, which was first attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD with the Old Malay mava in inflected form mamāwa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba, from Proto-Austronesian *baba. Compare to Old Javanese wawa (“to bring, to carry”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbä.wä]
• Hyphenation: ba‧wa

bawa (base-imperative bawa, active membawa, passive dibawa, involuntary terbawa)

1. to carry

Conjugation of bawa (meng-, transitive)
Root	bawa
	Active	Involuntary	Passive	Basic / Imperative	Emphatic / Jussive
Active	membawa	terbawa	dibawa	bawa	bawalah
Locative	membawai	terbawai	dibawai	bawai	bawailah
Causative / Applicative1	membawakan	terbawakan	dibawakan	bawakan	bawakanlah
	Causative
Active	memperbawa	terperbawa	diperbawa	perbawa	perbawalah
Locative	memperbawai	terperbawai	diperbawai	perbawai	perbawailah
Causative / Applicative1	memperbawaikan	terperbawakan	diperbawakan	perbawakan	perbawakanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

• “bawa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

bawa

1. boat

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baqbaq.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbawa]

bawa (Lontara spelling ᨅᨓ)

1. (anatomy) mouth

• bawak
• bak

From Classical Malay bawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba₁, from Proto-Austronesian *baba₁. Compare to Old Javanese wawa (“to bring, to carry”).

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (mava) in inflected form mamāwa.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /bawə/, /bawa/, /bawaʔ/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /bawa/, /bawə/, /bawaʔ/

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• Rhymes: -a

bawa (Jawi spelling باوا)

1. to carry.
2. to take or lead someone to a certain place.

   Tolong bawa saya ke sana.

   Please take me there.

3. to cause something.
4. to involve into a certain event.
5. (informal) to drive a vehicle

   Bawa elok-elok kereta di jalan.

   Drive the car carefully on the road.

• “bawa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba.

bawa

1. to carry (as on the back)

-bawa^?

1. to request, to ask

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bawa (ma class, plural mabawa)

1. Alternative form of ubawa

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbawa/ [ˈbaː.wɐ]
• Rhymes: -awa
• Syllabification: ba‧wa

bawa (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜏ)

1. diminution; mitigation

bawa (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜏ) (obsolete)

1. each; every

   Synonyms: bawat, kada

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

From Malay bawang.

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.wa]

bawa

1. onion

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

bawa

1. brother

• Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages