bakaw

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bəˈkɔː/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː

Interjection[edit]

bakaw

  1. The cluck of a chicken.
    • 2000 January 10, NetGuy [username], “Re: Hello Guys!!”, in alt.romance.teen‎[1] (Usenet):
      Saying this in the nicest way possible.... BAKAW BUK BUK BACAW
    • 2002 April 27, Jim Larson, “Re: (spoilers ahoy!) okay well I've given up”, in alt.tv.farscape‎[2] (Usenet):
      She's just a big chicken.
      Bawk, bawk, bakaw!
    • 2012, Wai Chin, Chook Chook: Mei's Secret Pets‎[3], University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:
      The one-eyed butcher's stall, with its buckets of guts and crates of eggs, stood before me. I could see the one-eyed butcher perched behind a massive chopping block, swiftly hacking away.
      BAWK! BAWK! BA-KAW!
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bakaw.

Usage notes[edit]

Limos Kalinga[edit]

Noun[edit]

bakaw

  1. corn

Maranao[edit]

Noun[edit]

bakaw

  1. mangrove

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

bakaw

  1. to control, to manipulate

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bakəhaw (“mangrove”). Compare Cebuano bakhaw, Tausug bakkaw, and Malay bakau.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bakaw (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜏ᜔) (botany)

  1. loop-root mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)
    Synonyms: bakawan, bangkaw, bakawang-babae
  2. Utania racemosa (a species of flowering plant used as snake bite antidote)
    Synonym: kabal
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bakaw or bakáw (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜏ᜔)

  1. heron
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Further reading[edit]

  • “bakaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*bakehaw”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
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