tuala

From Portuguese toalha. Compare Tagalog tuwalya, Spanish toalla.

• IPA^(key): /tuala/, /twala/
• Hyphenation: tu‧a‧la, tua‧la

tuala

1. towel (cloth used for wiping)

From Malay tuala, from Portuguese toalha. Compare Tagalog tuwalya, Spanish toalla.

tuala

1. towel (cloth used for wiping)

From Malay tuala, from Portuguese toalha. Compare Tagalog tuwalya, Spanish toalla.

• IPA^(key): [t̪uˈala]
• Hyphenation: tu‧a‧la

tuala (plural tuala-tuala, first-person possessive tualaku, second-person possessive tualamu, third-person possessive tualanya)

1. towel.

   Synonym: handuk

• “tuala” 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.

From Portuguese toalha. Compare Tagalog tuwalya, Spanish toalla.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /tualə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /tuala/
• Rhymes: -alə, -lə, -ə

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• Rhymes: -a

tuala (Jawi spelling توالا, plural tuala-tuala, informal 1st possessive tualaku, 2nd possessive tualamu, 3rd possessive tualanya)

1. (Malaysia) towel (cloth used for wiping)

• (Indonesia) handuk

• Indonesian: tuala

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

From Malay tuala, from Portuguese toalha. Compare Tagalog tuwalya, Spanish toalla.

• IPA^(key): [tu.ˈa.la]

tuala

1. a headkerchief

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