kaw

See also: Kaw

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Kawi.

Symbol

kaw

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old Javanese.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Javanese terms

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː

Verb

kaw (third-person singular simple present kaws, present participle kawing, simple past and past participle kawed)

1. Alternative form of caw.
   • 1968, Ernest Ingersoll, Birds in legend, fable, and folklore:

     […] difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada […]

Noun

kaw (plural kaws)

1. Alternative form of caw.
   • 2013, Guenther Witzany, Biocommunication of Animals, page 197:

     Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short staccato sequence of 3–5 kaws at the start of the feeding session.

Anagrams

• Kwa, awk

Alangan

Pronoun

kaw

1. you (singular)

Anguthimri

Noun

kaw

1. (Mpakwithi) lice

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Cebuano

Etymology

Clipping of ikaw.

Pronoun

kaw

1. you

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit काल (kālá, “time, fixed point of time”).

Noun

kaw

1. year

Mansaka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaw/
• Hyphenation: kaw

Pronoun

kaw

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Usage notes

This is used postpositively (in the middle or the end of a sentence) while ikaw is used solely or at the beginning.

Declension

Person	Nominative				Genitive
	Singular		Plural		Singular		Plural
	Initial	Middle / Final	Initial	Middle / Final	Initial	Middle / Final	Initial	Middle / Final
1st	ako	—	kami (excl.) kita (incl.)	—	kanak	—	kanami (excl.) kanatun (incl.)	—
2nd	ikaw	kaw	kamu	—	kanmo	—	kanmayu	—
3rd	iyaan	yaan	silan	—	kanaan	—	kanilan	—

1. you

   Nanga kaw?

   What [happened to] you?

   Abay da kaw sining kanak selpon.

   You're always on my phone ('addicted')

Maranao

Pronoun

kaw

1. you

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaf/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -af
• Syllabification: kaw
• Homophone: Kaw

Noun

kaw f

1. genitive plural of kawa

Southern Ohlone

Noun

kaw

1. seashore

Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaw/

Etymology 1

From English cow.

Noun

kaw

1. cow

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch kauwen.

Verb

kaw

1. to chew, to masticate

Derived terms

• kawbuba (“leather”)
• kawkaw

Tagalog

Etymology

Clipping of ikaw.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw/ [ˈkaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -aw
• Syllabification: kaw

Pronoun

kaw (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏ᜔) (colloquial)

1. alternative form of ikaw

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɨ̯˧/

Etymology 1

Verb

kaw

1. to close; to shut.

Synonyms

• qe

Etymology 2

Noun

kaw

1. saw.

Verb

kaw

1. to saw.

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

Wolof

Noun

kaw

1. village, countryside