tawa

From Hindi तवा (tavā).

• tava

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.

From Maori.

tawa (plural tawas)

1. Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

• Awat

tawa

1. dog

• Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages

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

• Hyphenation: ta‧wa
• IPA^(key): /taˈwa/ [t̪ɐˈwa]

tawá

1. jovial (of face or visage)

• IPA^(key): /ta.ɰa/

tawa

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

tawa

1. inhabited
2. filled

tawa (tawa)

1. (transitive) to inhabit, to populate

tawa (vakatawa)

1. to watch
2. to fill

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtawa]
• Hyphenation: ta‧wa

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

1. laugh

tawa

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

• Although morphologically involuntary, the form tertawa and tertawakan is used lexically as an active form.

• “tawa” 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.

tawa

1. window

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

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /tawa/
• (Standard Malaysian) IPA^(key): /tawə/
• Rhymes: -awə, -wə, -ə

tawa (Jawi spelling تاوا)

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

   Synonym: gelak

• Indonesian: tawa

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

tawa

1. woman

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

• taua

Inherited from Old Tupi taba (“village, city”), from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.^[1]

Cognate with Portuguese taba.

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

tawa (plural tawa-itá)

1. city

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Páginas & Letras, →ISBN

tawa

1. woman

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.wa/

tawa

1. four.

Tawantin suyu

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

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtawa/ [ˈt̪aː.wɐ] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -awa
  • IPA^(key): /taˈwa/ [t̪ɐˈwa] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ta‧wa

tawa (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏ)

1. laugh; laughing; laughter

   Synonyms: halakhak, hagakgak, halikhik, alik-ik, agik-ik, hagalhal, hilhil, sagaak

• ngiti

tawá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏ)

1. prone to laughing

   Synonym: palatawa

• “tawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Cawa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• awat

• IPA^(key): /ˈtau̯.a/

tawa

1. third-person singular present/future of tewi

• IPA^(key): /taʋa/

tawa

1. leaf

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

• IPA^(key): [tawa]

tawa (obligatorily possessed; possessed tawadü)

1. lung

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “Chaawadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 288: “'tawa:dü 'my lung' / 'cha:wadü 'his lung' […] ----- -'tawai -dü 'lung'”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ʔtaway-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021