tawa

See also: tawā

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi तवा (tavā).

Alternative forms

• tava

Noun

tawa (plural tawas)

1. (South Asia) A frying pan or griddle.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 6:

     Deeti gave her daughter the job of sweeping the poppy petals into a heap while she busied herself in stoking the fire and heating a heavy iron tawa.

Etymology 2

From Maori

Noun

tawa (plural tawas)

1. , a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

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Ajië

Noun

tawa

1. dog

References

• Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages

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Fijian

Adverb

tawa

1. un-, a-, dis-, il-, im-, in-, non- (functions similar to a negative English prefix)

Adjective

tawa

1. inhabited
2. filled

Verb

tawa (tawa)

1. (transitive) to inhabit, to populate

tawa (vakatawa)

1. to watch
2. to fill

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tawa, from Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa.

Verb

tawa (used in the forms ketawa, and tertawa)

1. to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)

Derived terms

• menertawai (“to laugh at someone/something”)
• tawaan (“laughter”)

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Karao

Noun

tawa

1. window

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Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tawə/
• IPA^(key): /tawa/
• Rhymes: -awə, -wə, -ə

Verb

tawa (used in the forms ketawa, and tertawa)

1. to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)

Synonyms

• gelak

Descendants

• Indonesian: tawa

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Mehek

Noun

tawa

1. woman

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

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Pahi

Noun

tawa

1. woman

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

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Quechua

Quechua cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tawa

Numeral

tawa

1. four

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa.

Noun

tawa

1. laughter

Anagrams

• awat

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtau̯.a/

Verb

tawa

1. third-person singular present/future of tewi

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tawa	dawa	nhawa	thawa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.