abaw

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔabaw/ [ˈʔa.baʊ̯]
• Hyphenation: a‧baw

abaw (Basahan spelling ᜀᜊᜏ᜔)

1. haughtiness; aloofness
2. arrogance

   Synonym: hambog

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈbaw/ [ʔaˈbɐw]
• Rhymes: -aw
• Syllabification: a‧baw

abáw (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜪᜯ᜴)

1. an exclamation of wonder

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 18

Inherited from Proto-Berber, from a wanderwort that seems to be related somehow to Indo-European forms. Compare Proto-Germanic *baunō.

• IPA^(key): /abaw/

abaw m (plural ibawen, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴱⴰⵡ)

1. broad bean

   U itakka Rebbi ibawen ɣa i wa a yellan cay ɣur-es itaɣṣin.

   God gives beans 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”, in Webonary‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎^[2], Paris, France: HAL

• ibiw, abun

Inherited from Proto-Berber, from a wanderwort that seems to be related somehow to Indo-European forms. Compare Proto-Germanic *baunō.

• IPA^(key): /abaw/

abaw m (plural ibawn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴱⴰⵡ, Arabic spelling آباو)

1. bean

   آر ياكّا ربّي يباون ي غوالّي ور يطّافن وخسان

   ar yakka ṛbbi ibawn i ɣwa lli ur iṭṭafn uxsan

   God gives beans 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 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 35a

abaw

1. Latin spelling of абау (abaw)