# 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

$^1$ 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
* 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