lawa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lawa"

Languages (35)

Alangan • Brunei Malay • Butuanon • Central Bikol • Chickasaw • Choctaw • East Miraya Bikol • Fijian • Hawaiian • Higaonon • Hiligaynon • Iban • Indonesian • Javanese • Kagayanen • Lindu • Lower Sorbian • Malay • Mansaka • Masbatenyo • North Tukang Besi • Old Javanese • Polish • Quechua • Ratagnon • Sarawak Malay • Swazi • Tagakaulu Kalagan • Tagalog • Tausug • Tok Pisin • Waray-Waray • West Makian • Western Bukidnon Manobo • Xhosa

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Alangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Noun

lawà

1. spider

Brunei Malay

Adjective

lawa

1. beautiful

   Synonym: bida

Butuanon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Noun

lawa

1. spider

Central Bikol

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlawaʔ/ [ˈl̪a.waʔ]
• Hyphenation: la‧wa

Noun

lawà (Basahan spelling ᜎᜏ)

1. spider

Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw lawa (“many, much”), Koasati lawa (“many”).

Pronoun

lawa

1. a lot

Verb

lawa (active, in/transitive)

1. (intransitive) to be many
2. (intransitive) to be a lot
3. (intransitive) to be a bunch
4. (transitive) to be a lot in (a place)

Inflection

Class I Verb Subjects (Active)

Verbs beginning with a consonant.	Singular	Plural	Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we)	lawali lawa-li	iilawa / iliilawa / liilawa ii-lawa / ilii-lawa / lii-lawa	iloolawa iloo-lawa
2nd-person (you, you all)	ishlawa ish-lawa	hashlawa hash-lawa
3rd-person (he, she, it, they)	lawa	(hoo)lawa (hoo-)lawa

Derived terms

• iyyi-lawaꞌ

Choctaw

Alternative forms

• laua (traditional)
• la̱wa

Etymology

Cognate with Koasati lawa (“many”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈwa(h)/
• Transcription: lawah

Adjective

lawa

1. many. much
2. a lot of
3. too much

East Miraya Bikol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Noun

lawa

1. spider

Fijian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɰa/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Central Pacific *lawa, from Proto-Oceanic *lawaq, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lawaq (“spider”).

Senses of “to imagine” and “to suspect” is from the metaphor of catching, binding or encircling something in a mesh, as with a fishnet or a military ambush.

Noun

lawa

1. net, fishing net (net used for fishing)

   Era dabe lawa ki wai.

   They're casting nets into the water.

2. snare, trap (device designed to catch or kill animals)

   Era viria na lawa vei na manumanu.

   They set snares for the birds.

Verb

lawa (transitive lawaca or lawana)

1. to begin to weave (especially pandanus leaves for mats)

   Era lawa tiko na ibe vou.

   They're starting to weave a new mat.

   na lawaci ni ibe ― the beginning of a mat to be woven

2. to plait and wrap (with a coconut-fiber sinnet around something)

   Era lawa na bai.

   They're wrapping the fence posts [with coconut-fiber sinnet].

3. to imagine, to conceive, to conjure (to develop an idea)

   Au lawana ni sa yaco oqo.

   I imagine that this will happen.

4. to suspect, to accuse (on suspicion alone)

   Era lawana ko koya ni butako.

   They suspect him of stealing.

Usage notes

The transitive forms are lawaca for senses 1 and 2 and lawana for senses 3 and 4, both which are figurative.

Derived terms

• ilawalawa (long pandanus leaves for mat weaving)
• lawa ni yavi (communal fishing net/scare-line)
• lawaki (“to trick, to deceive”)
• lawaki ca (“really evil deception”)
• lawalawa (“cobweb, netting, colander”)
• veilawakitaki (“trickery”)
• yavirau (communal fishing with scare-line)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English law. Possibly also a phono-semantic matching of English law based on Etymology 1, due to the metaphor of law as a binding net or structure.

Noun

lawa

1. law (body of rules established in a community by its authorities)

   Era basuka na lawa.

   They broke the law.

2. (by extension) rule, regulation, law (any rule that must or should be obeyed)

   Na lawa ni vale oqo e sega ni vakatara na ose.

   The rules of this house don't allow smoking.

Derived terms

• basu lawa (“lawbreaker, criminal”)
• Bose Lawa (“Parliament”)
• Bose Lawa i Cake (“Senate”)
• lawa vakaturi (“proposed law, bill”)
• lawa-tu (“constitution”)
• vakalawa-taka (“to legislate”)

References

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), Fijian–English Dictionary‎^[1], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 137

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lawa₁ (compare with Māori rawa (“numerous, many, wealth”)).

Noun

lawa

1. sufficiency, abundance, plenty

Higaonon

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *lawa, akin to Western Bukidnon Manobo lawa.

Noun

lawa

1. body

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq. Akin to Cebuano lawalawa.

Noun

lawa

1. spider

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlawaʔ/ [ˈla.waʔ]

Noun

lawà

1. spiderweb

Iban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.wa/

Adjective

lawa

1. beautiful, good-looking, pretty

   Synonym: bajik

   Lawa amat indu nya!

   That lady is so beautiful!

2. arrogant

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.wa/
• Rhymes: -la
• Hyphenation: la‧wa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Makasar and Buginese [Term?].

Noun

lawa (plural lawa-lawa) (cooking)

1. salad

   Synonym: urap

2. Buginese dish made from raw fish or banana blossoms, mixed with grated or fried coconut, spices, and vinegar

Derived terms

• lawa pisang batu

Etymology 2

Unknown, inherited from Malay lawa (“board”), probably from Old Javanese lawa (“fragment, piece”), from Sanskrit लव (lava).

Noun

lawa (plural lawa-lawa) (archaic)

1. crossbar on boats and so on
2. barrier, obstacle

   Synonym: rintangan

3. roadblock

Derived terms

• melawa
• pelawa

Etymology 3

inherited from Malay lawa (“beautiful”).

Adjective

lawa (comparative lebih lawa, superlative paling lawa)

1. beautiful

   Synonym: indah

Derived terms

• melawa

Further reading

• “lawa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Javanese

Romanization

lawa

1. romanization of ꦭꦮ

Kagayanen

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *lawa

Noun

lawa

1. (anatomy) body

Lindu

Noun

lawa

1. hindrance; obstacle

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlawa]

Noun

lawa

1. genitive singular of law
2. accusative singular of law
3. nominative dual of law

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlawa/ [ˈla.wa]
  • Note: Unlike in many other words in Johor-Riau Malay that end with an /a/, the word-final /a/ in this word is not realized as a schwa [ə].
• Rhymes: -wa, -a
• Hyphenation: la‧wa

Adjective

lawa (Jawi spelling لاوا, comparative lebih lawa, superlative paling lawa)

1. beautiful

   Synonyms: cantik, molek

   Lawanya perempuan itu!

   That girl is so beautiful!

Affixations

• dilawakan
• lawakan
• melawa
• melawakan

Descendants

• > Indonesian: lawa (inherited)

Further reading

• "lawa" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "lawa" at PRPM first version)

Mansaka

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Noun

lawa

1. spider

Masbatenyo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Noun

lawà

1. spider

North Tukang Besi

Classifier

lawa

1. classifier for cloth

References

• Mark Donohue (1999), A Grammar of Tukang Besi, Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 541

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit लव (lava).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.wa/
• Rhymes: -wa
• Homophone: lawā
• Hyphenation: la‧wa

Noun

lawa

1. fragment, piece
2. minute of time

Derived terms

• lawā-lawā
• linawā-lawan
• lumawā-lawā

Descendants

• >? Malay: lawa
  • > Indonesian: lawa (inherited)

Further reading

• "lawa" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Polish

lawa

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lava.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.va/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ava
• Syllabification: la‧wa

Noun

lawa f

1. lava (molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides)

Declension

Declension of lawa

	singular	plural
nominative	lawa	lawy
genitive	lawy	law
dative	lawie	lawom
accusative	lawę	lawy
instrumental	lawą	lawami
locative	lawie	lawach
vocative	lawo	lawy

Derived terms

adjective

• lawowy

Further reading

• “lawa”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “lawa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Quechua

Noun

lawa

1. a gruel made flour, water, and salt; sometimes prepared with maize
2. soup

Declension

Declension of lawa

	singular	plural
nominative	lawa	lawakuna
accusative	lawata	lawakunata
dative	lawaman	lawakunaman
genitive	lawap	lawakunap
locative	lawapi	lawakunapi
terminative	lawakama	lawakunakama
ablative	lawamanta	lawakunamanta
instrumental	lawawan	lawakunawan
comitative	lawantin	lawakunantin
abessive	lawannaq	lawakunannaq
comparative	lawahina	lawakunahina
causative	lawarayku	lawakunarayku
benefactive	lawapaq	lawakunapaq
associative	lawapura	lawakunapura
distributive	lawanka	lawakunanka
exclusive	lawalla	lawakunalla

Possessive forms of lawa

ñuqap - first-person singular ñuqap (my) singular plural nominative laway lawaykuna accusative lawayta lawaykunata dative lawayman lawaykunaman genitive lawaypa lawaykunap locative lawaypi lawaykunapi terminative lawaykama lawaykunakama ablative lawaymanta lawaykunamanta instrumental lawaywan lawaykunawan comitative lawaynintin lawaykunantin abessive lawayninnaq lawaykunannaq comparative lawayhina lawaykunahina causative lawayrayku lawaykunarayku benefactive lawaypaq lawaykunapaq associative lawaypura lawaykunapura distributive lawayninka lawaykunanka exclusive lawaylla lawaykunalla qampa - second-person singular qampa (your) singular plural nominative lawayki lawaykikuna accusative lawaykita lawaykikunata dative lawaykiman lawaykikunaman genitive lawaykipa lawaykikunap locative lawaykipi lawaykikunapi terminative lawaykikama lawaykikunakama ablative lawaykimanta lawaykikunamanta instrumental lawaykiwan lawaykikunawan comitative lawaykintin lawaykikunantin abessive lawaykinnaq lawaykikunannaq comparative lawaykihina lawaykikunahina causative lawaykirayku lawaykikunarayku benefactive lawaykipaq lawaykikunapaq associative lawaykipura lawaykikunapura distributive lawaykinka lawaykikunanka exclusive lawaykilla lawaykikunalla paypa - third-person singular paypa (his/her/its) singular plural nominative lawan lawankuna accusative lawanta lawankunata dative lawanman lawankunaman genitive lawanpa lawankunap locative lawanpi lawankunapi terminative lawankama lawankunakama ablative lawanmanta lawankunamanta instrumental lawanwan lawankunawan comitative lawanintin lawankunantin abessive lawanninnaq lawankunannaq comparative lawanhina lawankunahina causative lawanrayku lawankunarayku benefactive lawanpaq lawankunapaq associative lawanpura lawankunapura distributive lawaninka lawankunanka exclusive lawanlla lawankunalla ñuqanchikpa - first-person inclusive plural ñuqanchikpa (our(incl)) singular plural nominative lawanchik lawanchikkuna accusative lawanchikta lawanchikkunata dative lawanchikman lawanchikkunaman genitive lawanchikpa lawanchikkunap locative lawanchikpi lawanchikkunapi terminative lawanchikkama lawanchikkunakama ablative lawanchikmanta lawanchikkunamanta instrumental lawanchikwan lawanchikkunawan comitative lawanchiknintin lawanchikkunantin abessive lawanchikninnaq lawanchikkunannaq comparative lawanchikhina lawanchikkunahina causative lawanchikrayku lawanchikkunarayku benefactive lawanchikpaq lawanchikkunapaq associative lawanchikpura lawanchikkunapura distributive lawanchikninka lawanchikkunanka exclusive lawanchiklla lawanchikkunalla ñuqaykup - first-person exclusive plural ñuqaykup (our(excl)) singular plural nominative lawayku lawaykukuna accusative lawaykuta lawaykukunata dative lawaykuman lawaykukunaman genitive lawaykupa lawaykukunap locative lawaykupi lawaykukunapi terminative lawaykukama lawaykukunakama ablative lawaykumanta lawaykukunamanta instrumental lawaykuwan lawaykukunawan comitative lawaykuntin lawaykukunantin abessive lawaykunnaq lawaykukunannaq comparative lawaykuhina lawaykukunahina causative lawaykurayku lawaykukunarayku benefactive lawaykupaq lawaykukunapaq associative lawaykupura lawaykukunapura distributive lawaykunka lawaykukunanka exclusive lawaykulla lawaykukunalla qamkunap - second-person plural qamkunap (your(pl)) singular plural nominative lawaykichik lawaykichikkuna accusative lawaykichikta lawaykichikkunata dative lawaykichikman lawaykichikkunaman genitive lawaykichikpa lawaykichikkunap locative lawaykichikpi lawaykichikkunapi terminative lawaykichikkama lawaykichikkunakama ablative lawaykichikmanta lawaykichikkunamanta instrumental lawaykichikwan lawaykichikkunawan comitative lawaykichiknintin lawaykichikkunantin abessive lawaykichikninnaq lawaykichikkunannaq comparative lawaykichikhina lawaykichikkunahina causative lawaykichikrayku lawaykichikkunarayku benefactive lawaykichikpaq lawaykichikkunapaq associative lawaykichikpura lawaykichikkunapura distributive lawaykichikninka lawaykichikkunanka exclusive lawaykichiklla lawaykichikkunalla paykunap - third-person plural paykunap (their) singular plural nominative lawanku lawankukuna accusative lawankuta lawankukunata dative lawankuman lawankukunaman genitive lawankupa lawankukunap locative lawankupi lawankukunapi terminative lawankukama lawankukunakama ablative lawankumanta lawankukunamanta instrumental lawankuwan lawankukunawan comitative lawankuntin lawankukunantin abessive lawankunnaq lawankukunannaq comparative lawankuhina lawankukunahina causative lawankurayku lawankukunarayku benefactive lawankupaq lawankukunapaq associative lawankupura lawankukunapura distributive lawankunka lawankukunanka exclusive lawankulla lawankukunalla

Ratagnon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Noun

lawa

1. spider

Sarawak Malay

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.meʔ/

Adjective

lawa

1. arrogant

Further reading

• "lawa" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "lawa" at PRPM first version)

Swazi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

lawa

1. those over there, yonder; class 6 remote demonstrative.

Tagakaulu Kalagan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Noun

lawa

1. spider

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• laua — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlawaʔ/ [ˈlaː.wɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -awaʔ
• Syllabification: la‧wa

Etymology 1

From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rawaq (“swamp; morass”). Cognate with Javanese ꦫꦮ (rawa), Indonesian, Malay rawa / rawah (“marsh”), and Sundanese ranca (“swamp”).

Noun

lawà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜏ)

1. lake; lagoon

   Synonyms: dagat-dagatan, pulilan, laguna, danaw, lanaw

2. any small flooded area

   Synonym: sanaw

Derived terms

• lawaan
• maglawa

Adjective

lawà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜏ)

1. (figurative) flooded; covered with water

   Synonym: sanaw

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Austronesian *lawaq

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq

Tagalog lawa

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq. Doublet of alalawa. Compare Central Bikol lawa, Butuanon lawa, Tausug lawa' and Waray-Waray lawa.

Noun

lawà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜏ)

1. (dialectal, Quezon, Marinduque) spider

   Synonyms: gagamba, alalawa, lawa-lawa, (uncommon) aranya

Further reading

• “lawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

• wala

Tausug

Etymology

Compare Cebuano walá.

Pronunciation

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /lawa/ [laˈwɑ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: la‧wa

Noun

lawa (Sulat Sūg spelling لَوَ)

1. left hand, foot or limb

   Coordinate term: tuu

   Napukul in lawa niya.

   His left hand was amputated.

2. left side

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From Malay labah-labah.

Noun

lawa

1. spider

Waray-Waray

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lawaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlawaʔ/, [ˈla.waʔ]
• Hyphenation: la‧wa

Noun

lawà

1. spider

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪a.wa/

Noun

lawa

1. a door

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics

Western Bukidnon Manobo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *lawa, akin to Higaonon lawa.

Noun

lawa

1. (anatomy) body

Xhosa

Alternative forms

• laa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

lawa

1. those over there, yonder; class 6 remote demonstrative.