kinawayan
Tagalog
Etymology 1
From kaway (“hand wave”) + -an + -in-.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kinawaˈjan/ [kɪ.n̪ɐ.wɐˈjan̪]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: ki‧na‧wa‧yan
Verb
kinawayán (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜈᜏᜌᜈ᜔)
Alternative forms
- quinauayan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology 2
From kawayan (“bamboo”) + -in-, literally “likened into a bamboo”.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kinaˈwajan/ [kɪ.n̪ɐˈwaː.jɐn̪]
- Rhymes: -ajan
- Syllabification: ki‧na‧wa‧yan
Noun
kinawayan (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜈᜏᜌᜈ᜔) (obsolete)
- a type of long-fruited banana with a tapering tip, a little thick, and its taste was described as good but not that of the best ones, possibly Musa × paradisiaca (AAB group)
Alternative forms
- quinanayan, guinanayan — misspelling, obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- quinauayan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- kinanayan — obsolete
- kinauayan — obsolete
Further reading
- “kinawayan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.