tawa

See also: tawā

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi तवा (tavā).

Alternative forms

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

Maori

Noun

tawa (plural tawas)

  1. Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

Ajië

Noun

tawa

  1. dog

References

  • Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages

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 forms

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

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

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

Quechua

Quechua cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : tawa

Numeral

tawa

  1. (cardinal) four

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Noun

tawa

  1. laughter

Anagrams

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtau̯a/

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.
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