bawa
- oldersibling
- Ilana Mushin,A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)
bāwā̀ m (femininebâiwā,pluralbāyī,possessed formbāwàn)
- slave
Inherited fromMalaybawa, fromProto-Malayic*baba, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*baba, fromProto-Austronesian*baba.
bawa (activemembawa,passivedibawa)
- tocarry,bring,take
Tadi belanjaanyadibawa oleh saya.- The shoppingwas carried by me.
Dia maumembawa anaknya ke pasar.- She wants totake her child to the market.
- tohost
- Synonym:bawakan
Mereka dijadwalkan untukmembawa acara bulan ini.- They are scheduled tohost an event this month.
- (figurative) toinvolve(to entangle in a confusing or troublesome situation)
- Synonym:libatkan
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*baba”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI
bawa
- boat
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*baqbaq.
bawa (Lontara spellingᨅᨓ)
- (anatomy)mouth
FromClassical Malaybawa, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*baba₁, fromProto-Austronesian*baba₁. Compare toOld Javanesewawa(“to bring, to carry”).
First attested in theKedukan Bukit inscription, 683AD, as Old Malay[script needed](mava) in inflected formmamāwa.
bawa (Jawi spellingباوا)
- tocarry.
- to take orlead someone to a certainplace.
Tolongbawa saya ke sana.- Pleasetake me there.
- to cause something.
- toinvolve into a certainevent.
- (informal) todrive avehicle
Bawa elok-elok kereta di jalan.- Drive the car carefully on the road.
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*baba.
bawa
- tocarry(as on the back)
-bawa?
- torequest, toask
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bawa classV (pluralmabawa classVI)
- Alternative form ofubawa
bawa (Baybayin spellingᜊᜏ)
- diminution;mitigation
bawa (Baybayin spellingᜊᜏ)(obsolete)
- each;every
- Synonyms:bawat,kada
- “bawa”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
FromMalaybawang.
bawa
- onion
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
bawa
- brother
- Corinna Handschuh,A typology of marked-S languages
