kabaw

Cebuano

Etymology

From earlier kalabaw, with dropping of /l/ when surrounded by identical vowels in Boholano and Leyte dialects, borrowed from Waray-Waray karabaw, from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kAr(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”). Compare Bikol Central karabaw, Hiligaynon karabaw, Tagalog kalabaw, Tausug kabaw, Waray-Waray karabaw, Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy), Halang kơpùa, Indonesian kerbau, Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴ (kebo), Thai กระบือ (grà-bʉʉ).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧baw
• IPA^(key): /ˈkabaw/, [ˈka.bɐʊ̯]

Noun

kabaw

1. water buffalo; carabao
2. large person or animal
3. (colloquial) neckerchief slide of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kabaw.

Derived terms

• kinabaw
• magkabaw

 

Eastern Cham

Alternative forms

• kubaw / ꨆꨭꨝꨥ
• ꨆꨝꨥ

Etymology

Compare Malay kerbau, Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy), Halang kơpùa, Indonesian kerbau, Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴ (kebo), Thai กระบือ (grà-bʉʉ), Cebuano kabaw, Tausug kabaw, Tagalog kalabaw, Hiligaynon karabaw, Waray-Waray karabaw, Maguindanao karabaw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabaʊ/

Noun

kabaw

1. water buffalo

Karao

Adjective

kabaw

1. senile

Tausug

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kAr(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”).

Noun

kabaw

1. water buffalo; carabao