tuwad

Cebuano

Etymology

Compare tuwang and tuwandos.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tu‧wad

Verb

tuwad

1. to bend over
2. to overturn
3. to turn over

Noun

tuwad

1. a top snail (Trochus niloticus)

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• touar — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• tuwar — dialectal, Rizal, informal

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuad.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuˈad/ [ˈtwad]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: tu‧wad

Adjective

tuwád (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜏᜇ᜔)

1. bent or leaning down forward with the buttocks raised higher than one's head
2. upside-down

   Synonym: tiwarik

Derived terms

• ituwad
• mapatuwad
• matuwad
• nakatuwad
• pagtutuwaran
• pagtuwad
• patuwad
• tumuwad
• tuwad-tuwaran
• tuwaran

 

See also

• balintuwad
• lungangi
• tungo

 

Noun

tuwád (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜏᜇ᜔)

1. act of bending or leaning down forward with the buttocks raised higher than one's head

   Synonym: pagtuwad

2. (colloquial) complete defeat (in a game or contest)

   Synonyms: dapa, pagdapa

3. (obsolete) act of tearing down something to the ground

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtuad/ [ˈtuː.ɐd]
• Rhymes: -uad
• Syllabification: tu‧wad

Noun

tuwad (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜏᜇ᜔)

1. (obsolete) act of pruning

References

• “tuwad”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier