different between vaw vs tawa

English

Noun

vaw (plural vaws)

1. Alternative form of vav

Anagrams

• W. Va., W.Va.

Bintulu

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baq??u, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baq??uh.

Adjective

vaw

1. new (recently made or created)

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi ??? (tav?).

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. Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

Anagrams

• Awat

Ajië

Noun

tawa

1. dog

References

• Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tawa, from Proto-Malayic *tawa(?), 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)

Conjugation

This verb however, takes the prefix ter- in locative and benefactive. For some reasons, some forms of the locative does not exist.

Derived terms

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

Karao

Noun

tawa

1. window

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /taw?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /tawa/
• Rhymes: -aw?, -w?, -?

Verb

tawa (Jawi spelling ?????)

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

   Synonym: gelak

Descendants

• Indonesian: tawa

Further reading

• “tawa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

Numeral

tawa

1. four

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Noun

tawa

1. laughter

Anagrams

• awat

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tau?.a/

Verb

tawa

1. third-person singular present/future of tewi

Mutation

Wolio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?a/

Noun

tawa

1. leaf

References

• Anceaux, Johannes C. 1987. Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia). Dordrecht: Foris.