# tawa
## English
### Etymology 1

From Hindi तवा (tavā).

#### Alternative forms

* tava

#### Noun

tawa (plural tawas)
* (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)
* Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

### Anagrams

* Awat

## Ajië
### Noun

tawa
* 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: /taˈwa/ [t̪ɐˈwa]

### Adjective

tawá
* jovial (of face or visage)

#### Derived terms

* katawa

## Fijian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ɰa/

### Adverb

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

### Adjective

tawa
* inhabited
* filled

### Verb

tawa (tawa)
* (transitive) to inhabit, to populate

### Verb

tawa (vakatawa)
* to watch
* to fill

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtawa]
* Hyphenation: ta‧wa

### Noun

tawa (uncountable)
* laugh

#### Derived terms

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

### Verb

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

#### Conjugation

* 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
* window

## Malay
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

tawa (Jawi spelling تاوا)
* to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)
    Synonym: gelak

#### Derived terms

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
* 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

## Nheengatu
### Alternative forms

* taua

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtawa/
* Rhymes: -awa
* Hyphenation: ta‧wa
* Homophones: -tawa, Tawa

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Tupi taba (“village, city”), from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.
Cognate with Portuguese taba.

#### Noun

tawa (plural tawa-itá)
* city
* village

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tawa
* (obsolete) absolute of awa

### References

* ↑ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 569
* Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “tawa”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 743

## Pahi
### Noun

tawa
* 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
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.wa/

### Numeral

tawa
* four.

### See also

Tawantin suyu

## Tagalog
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

tawa (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏ)
* laugh; laughing; laughter
    Synonyms: halakhak, hagakgak, halikhik, alik-ik, agik-ik, hagalhal, hilhil, sagaak

#### Derived terms

* ikatawa
* ipagtawa
* katatawanan
* katawa-tawa
* magpatawa
* magtawa
* magtawanan
* makatawa
* makitawa
* mapagpatawa
* mapagtawanan
* pagpapatawa
* pagtatawa
* pagtawa
* pagtawanan
* pampatawa
* patawahin
* patawanin
* tawa-tawa
* tawanan
* tawang-aso
* tumawa

#### See also

* ngiti

### Adjective

tawá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏ)
* prone to laughing
    Synonym: palatawa

#### Derived terms

* katawa-tawa
* mapatawa
* matawa
* nakakatawa
* palatawa
* patawa

### Further reading

* “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

### Anagrams

* awat

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtau̯.a/

### Verb

tawa
* third-person singular present/future of tewi

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Wolio
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taʋa/

### Noun

tawa
* leaf

### References

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

## Ye'kwana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tawa]

### Noun

tawa (obligatorily possessed; possessed tawadü)
* lung

#### Derived terms

* tawaje
* tawata

### References

* Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “Chaawadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎, 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021