tawa

See also: tawā and Tawa

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, 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.

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

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

tawá

1. jovial (of face or visage)

Derived terms

• katawa

Fijian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ɰa/

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

Verb

tawa (vakatawa)

1. to watch
2. to fill

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tawa (plural tawa-tawa)

1. laugh

Derived terms

• ketawa
• menertawakan
• mentertawai
• mentertawakan
• penertawaan
• tertawa
• tertawa-tawa
• tertawaan

Verb

tawa

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of tawa (memper-, absolute intransitive, irregular, defective)

root	tawa
	active	passive		imperative colloquial	emphatic jussive
		reflective1	ordinary
	ordinary
active	–	tertawa, ketawa	–	tawa	tawalah
locative	menertawai	–	ditertawai	–	–
perfective causative / applicative2	menertawakan	tertawakan	ditertawakan	tertawakan, tawakan	tertawakanlah
	causative
active	mempertawa	–	–	–	–
locative	mempertawai	–	dipertawai	–	–
perfective causative / applicative2	mempertawakan	–	dipertawakan	–	–

¹ There is other form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
² The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
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 not normally 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.

Further reading

• “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.

Karao

Noun

tawa

1. window

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tawa (Jawi spelling تاوا)

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

   Synonym: gelak

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• ketawa [passive] (ke-)
• tertawa [agentless action] (teR-)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

• mengetawakan
• mentertawakan

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