- IPA(key): /ˈʔabaw/ [ˈʔa.baʊ̯]
- Hyphenation:a‧baw
abaw (Basahan spellingᜀᜊᜏ᜔)
- haughtiness;aloofness
- arrogance
- Synonym:hambog
- IPA(key): /ʔaˈbaw/[ʔaˈbɐw]
- Rhymes:-aw
- Syllabification:a‧baw
abáw (Hanunoo spellingᜠᜪᜯ᜴)
- an exclamation ofwonder
- Conklin, Harold C. (1953),Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC,page18
Inherited fromProto-Berber, from awanderwort that seems to be related somehow toIndo-European forms. CompareProto-Germanic*baunō.
abaw m (pluralibawen,Tifinagh spellingⴰⴱⴰⵡ)
- broad bean
U itakka Rebbiibawen ɣa i wa a yellan cay ɣur-es itaɣṣin.- God givesbeans only to the one who has no teeth (said to someone who does not take advantage of what is offered to them).
- Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, inWebonary[1], retrieved 2025
- Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties : phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)[2], Paris, France: HAL
FromProto-Berber, from awanderwort that seems to be related somehow toIndo-European forms. CompareProto-Germanic*baunō.
abaw m (pluralibawn,Tifinagh spellingⴰⴱⴰⵡ,Arabic spellingآباو)
- bean
ar yakka ṛbbiibawn i ġwa lli ur iṭṭafn uxsan.- God givesbeans to the one who has no teeth (said to someone who does not take advantage of the opportunity offered to him).
- Stroomer, Harry (2025),Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik;188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill,→DOI,→ISBN, page35a
abaw
- Latin spelling ofабау(abaw)
