timawa

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa

Adjective

timawa

1. impoverished

Noun

timawa

1. the poor
2. (historical) a freeman
3. (historical) the feudal warrior class of the ancient Visayan societies of the Philippines

Verb

timawa

1. (historical) to emancipate an ulipon

Descendants

• → Spanish: timagua
• → Tagalog: timawa

Hiligaynon

Noun

timáwà

1. a citizen or member of a community

Verb

timáwà

1. to free or liberate

Kapampangan

Noun

timawa

1. Súlat Wáwâ spelling of timaua

Pangasinan

Alternative forms

• timaoa

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa
• IPA^(key): /tiˈmawa/, [tɪˈma.wa]
• Rhymes: -awa

Noun

timawa

1. (historical) freeman
2. commoner; plebeian

Part or all of this Pangasinan entry has been imported from the 1865 edition of Diccionario pangasinan-español. The imported definitions may be significantly outdated, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• timaua, timagua — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• timagwa

Etymology

Possibly related to Classical Malay istimewa (“special; privilege”), which is said to have come from Sanskrit आस्तामेव (āstāmeva, literally “May it keep on being so.”).

Compare Kapampangan timaua, Cebuano timawa, Hiligaynon timawa, and Ilocano timmawa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈmawaʔ/, [tɪˈma.wɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -awaʔ
• Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa

Noun

timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ)

1. (colloquial) glutton; voracious eater

   Synonym: patay-gutom

2. (colloquial) mean or despicable person
3. (colloquial) stupid person; fool

   Synonyms: bobo, tanga

4. (colloquial, rare) poor or destitute person

   Synonyms: dukha, hampaslupa, busabos

5. (historical) privileged intermediate class
6. (historical) freeman; emancipated slave
7. (obsolete) act of freeing oneself from danger or calamity

   Synonym: paglaya

8. (obsolete) act of manumission

Usage notes

• The word timawa used to refer to privileged middle classes but during the Spanish period, the sense demoted to “freemen”. The meaning further evolved to its modern meaning to be “a poor person”.

Derived terms

• katimawaan
• magtimawa
• matimawa
• pagkatimawa
• pagtimawa
• pagtimawaan
• timawain
• tumimawa

 

See also

• maharlika

 

Adjective

timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ)

1. vile; abject

   Synonyms: imbi, hamak, bulisik, bulisiksik

2. (colloquial) poor

   Synonyms: mahirap, dukha

3. (colloquial) gluttonous

   Synonyms: matakaw, masiba

4. (obsolete) ignoble; plebeian

   Synonyms: karaniwan, polista

5. (obsolete) free; emancipated (of a former slave)

   Synonym: malaya

Further reading

• “timawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 389: “Libre) Timava (pp) ſin eſclauonia, ni rrico ni pobre, mang̃a timava, los libres, la jente comun del pueblo deſpues delos magnates”