aw-aw

See also: awaw and aw aw

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔawˈʔaw/ [ʔaʊ̯ˈʔaʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -aw
  • Syllabification: aw-aw

Etymology 1

Reduplication of aw (“sound of dog bark”). See also Proto-Austronesian *qawqaw (“to bark, of a dog”).

Noun

aw-áw (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏ᜔ᜀᜏ᜔)

  1. (colloquial) bark (of dogs)
    Synonyms: tahol, kahol
  2. (childish) dog; woof-woof; bow-wow
    Synonyms: aso, tsutso
  3. dog meat
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

aw-áw (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏ᜔ᜀᜏ᜔) (obsolete)

  1. shaking of clothes in water without wringing them
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “aw-aw”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
  • “aw-aw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qawqaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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