gawgaw
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Hiligaynon
[edit]Noun
[edit]gawgaw
Sranan Tongo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of gaw, or borrowed from the Dutch reduplication gauw gauw.
Adjective
[edit]gawgaw
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Chinese. Compare Bikol Central gawgaw, Hiligaynon gawgaw, and Waray-Waray gawgaw. See also Burmese ကော် (kau), and Chinese 膠／胶.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡawˈɡaw/ [ɡaʊ̯ˈɣaʊ̯]
- Rhymes: -aw
- Syllabification: gaw‧gaw
Noun
[edit]gawgáw (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜏ᜔ᜄᜏ᜔)
- starch made from plants or palms (especially cornstarch, but also those of cassava, arrowroot, etc.)
- Synonym: balinghoy
- laundry starch
- Polynesian arrowroot (Tacca leontopetaloides)
- mixture obtained by stirring
Further reading
[edit]- “gawgaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Categories:
- Hiligaynon lemmas
- Hiligaynon nouns
- Sranan Tongo reduplications
- Sranan Tongo lemmas
- Sranan Tongo adjectives
- Tagalog terms derived from Chinese
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aw
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aw/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script