English

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

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)

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /tawə/
• (Riau-Lingga) 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

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. (cardinal) four

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Noun

tawa

1. laughter

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): [ˈtawa]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): [ˈtɑːwa]

Verb

tawa

1. third-person singular present/future of tewi

Mutation