# haw
## Translingual
### Symbol

haw
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hawaiian.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Hawaiian terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA: /hɔː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, US) IPA: /hɔː/
* Rhymes: -ɔː

### Etymology 1

From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).

#### Interjection

haw
* An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).
    You think that song was good? Haw!
** 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.
* An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
** 1720, William Congreve, An Impossible Thing:Hums or haws.

##### Usage notes

* (an imitation of laughter): In the US, haw is rare (it was more used in the past), with ha being more common.

##### Derived terms

* gee and haw
* gee haw whimmy diddle
* haw-haw
* hee-haw
* hee haw
* yaw-haw
* yee-haw

##### Translations
#### Verb

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)
* To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.

##### Derived terms

* hum and haw, hem and haw

### Etymology 2

From Middle English hawe, from Old English haga (“enclosure, hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *hagô (compare West Frisian haach, Dutch haag, German Hag (“hedged farmland”), Norwegian Bokmål hage (“garden”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰom (compare Welsh cae (“field”), Latin caulae (“sheepfold, enclosure”), cohum (“strap between plowbeam and yoke”), Russian кош (koš, “tent”), коша́ра (košára, “sheepfold”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “curtain wall”)), from *kagʰ- 'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau (“to clasp”), Oscan kahad (“may he seize”).

#### Noun

haw (plural haws)
* Fruit of the hawthorn.
    Synonym: hawthorn berry
* (historical) A hedge.
* (obsolete) Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
** 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act II:wele not leaue a man of lawe, Nor a paper worth a hawe, And make him worſe than a dawe, That ſhall ſtand againſt Iacke Strawe.

##### Derived terms

* apple haw (Crataegus aestivalis)
* black haw
* crimson haw (Crataegus biltmoriana)
* downy haw
* Haw Creek
* hawthorn
* hog's haw (Crataegus brachyacantha)
* mayhaw (Crataegus aestivalis)
* parsley haw (Crataegus marshallii)
* pear haw (esp. Crataegus tomentosa)
* possum haw
* purple haw (Condalia obovata)
* red haw
* rose haw
* scarlet haw (esp. Crataegus biltmoriana)
* Shawnee haw (Vibrnum nudum)
* summer haw (Crataegus aestivalis)
* swamp haw (Viburnum nudum)

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”)

#### Interjection

haw
* An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
    Coordinate term: gee

##### Translations
#### Verb

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)
* (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.
    Antonym: gee
    This horse won't haw when I tell him to.
* To cause (an animal) to turn left.
    Antonym: gee
    You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.

##### Derived terms

* gee haw whimmy diddle
* haw and gee, haw and gee about

#### References

* “haw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ 1889–91, “haw”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:

### Etymology 4

Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.

#### Noun

haw (countable and uncountable, plural haws)
* (countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
* (uncountable) A disease of the nictitating membrane.

#### References

* ↑ 1889–91, “haw”, in William Dwight Whitney, editor, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:

### Anagrams

* WHA, Wah, wah, wha

## Jingpho
### Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ဟော (hau:).

### Verb

haw
* to preach

### References

* Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

## Kalasha
### Etymology

From Sanskrit हल (hala), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₁ol-. Cognate with Lithuanian žúolis.

### Noun

haw
* plough

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aw/

### Adverb

haw
* Alternative form of hawn: here

## Middle English
### Noun

haw
* Alternative form of hawe

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* jaw (Żywiec)
* hawoj (Lasovia)

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Lesser Poland):
** (Lasovia) IPA: /ˈxaf/
** (Przemyśl) IPA: [ˈhaf]
** (Goral):
*** (Żywiec) IPA: /ˈxaf/

### Adverb

haw (not comparable)
* (Lasovia, Żywiec) Alternative form of hajwo (“here”)
* (Przemyśl) Alternative form of hajwo (“there”)

### Further reading

* Izydor Kopernicki (1875) “haw”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I), volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 371
* Leon Rzeszowski (1891) “haw”, in “Spis wyrazów ludowych z okolic Żywca”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 356
* Aleksander Saloni (1908) “haw”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 334
* Oskar Kolberg (1865) “haw”, in Lud. Jego zwyczaje, sposób życia, mowa, podania, przysłowia, obrzędy, gusła, zabawy, pieśni, muzyka i tańce. Serya II. Sandomierskie (in Polish), page 262

## Scanian
### Etymology

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *habą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [hɑ́ː]

### Noun

haw n (definite singular haweð, plural haw)
* sea

#### Derived terms

* hawblikk
* hawbørw
* hawfroan
* hawmáka
* hawpadda

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* hao, hau — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
* haw ah

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈhaw/ [ˈhaʊ̯]
* Rhymes: -aw
* Syllabification: haw

### Interjection

haw (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜏ᜔) (now dialectal, Rizal, sarcastic, colloquial)
* an expression of disbelief
    Synonym: sus
    Nakabangga daw si Nel kanina? Haw, mangungutang naman laang siya.Nel said he hit someone with his vehicle? Oh please, he'll just ask for money.

### Further reading

* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /haɯ˨˦/
* Tone numbers: haw$^1$
* Hyphenation: haw

### Etymology 1

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Borrowed from Chinese 墟?”

#### Noun

haw (Sawndip forms 𰁴 or 𫣞 or ⿰土黑, 1957–1982 spelling həɯ)
* fair; market

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 虛 (MC xjo).

#### Adjective

haw (1957–1982 spelling həɯ)
* weak; feeble