tawa

From Hindi तवा (tavā).

• tava

tawa (plural tawas)

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

From Maori.

tawa (plural tawas)

1. Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

• Awat

tawa

1. dog

• Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages

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

• Hyphenation: ta‧wa
• IPA^(key): /taˈwa/ [t̪ɐˈwa]

tawá

1. jovial (of face or visage)

• IPA^(key): /ta.ɰa/

tawa

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

tawa

1. inhabited
2. filled

tawa (tawa)

1. (transitive) to inhabit, to populate

tawa (vakatawa)

1. to watch
2. to fill

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtawa]
• Hyphenation: ta‧wa

tawa (first-person possessive tawaku, second-person possessive tawamu, third-person possessive tawanya)

1. laugh

tawa

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

Conjugation of tawa (memper-, absolute intransitive, irregular, defective)
Root	tawa
	Active	Involuntary	Passive	Basic / Imperative	Emphatic / Jussive
Active	–	tertawa, ketawa	–	tawa	tawalah
Locative	menertawai	–	ditertawai	–	–
Causative / Applicative1	menertawakan	tertawakan	ditertawakan	tertawakan, tawakan	tertawakanlah
	Causative
Active	mempertawa	–	–	–	–
Locative	mempertawai	–	dipertawai	–	–
Causative / Applicative1	mempertawakan	–	dipertawakan	–	–
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: This verb however, takes the prefix ter- in locative and benefactive. For some reasons, some forms of the locative do not exist. Ketawa only exists in informal language. Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

• Although morphologically involuntary, the form tertawa and tertawakan is used lexically as an active form.

• “tawa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tawa

1. window

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

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

tawa (Jawi spelling تاوا)

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

   Synonym: gelak

• Indonesian: tawa

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

tawa

1. woman

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

• taua

Inherited from Old Tupi taba (“village, city”), from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.^[1]

Cognate with Portuguese taba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.wa/
• Rhymes: -awa
• Hyphenation: ta‧wa

tawa (plural tawa-itá)

1. city

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Páginas & Letras, →ISBN

tawa

1. woman

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

Quechua cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : tawa

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.wa/

tawa

1. four.

Tawantin suyu

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

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtawa/ [ˈt̪aː.wɐ] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -awa
  • IPA^(key): /taˈwa/ [t̪ɐˈwa] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ta‧wa

tawa (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏ)

1. laugh; laughing; laughter

   Synonyms: halakhak, hagakgak, halikhik, alik-ik, agik-ik, hagalhal, hilhil, sagaak

• ngiti

tawá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏ)

1. prone to laughing

   Synonym: palatawa

• “tawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Cawa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• awat

• IPA^(key): /ˈtau̯.a/

tawa

1. third-person singular present/future of tewi

• IPA^(key): /taʋa/

tawa

1. leaf

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

Variant orthographies

ALIV	tawa
Brazilian standard	tawa
New Tribes	tawa

• IPA^(key): [tawa]

tawa (obligatorily possessed; possessed tawadü)

1. lung

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “Chaawadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 288: “'tawa:dü 'my lung' / 'cha:wadü 'his lung' […] ----- -'tawai -dü 'lung'”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ʔtaway-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021