pulaw

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pu‧law

Verb

pulaw

  1. to stay up late at night
  2. to work throughout the night; to burn the midnight oil; to pull an all-nighter
  3. to elucubrate
  4. to do nothing until morning

Kavalan

Noun

pulaw

  1. butterfly

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /puˈlaw/ [pʊˈlaʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -aw
  • Syllabification: pu‧law

Etymology 1

Noun

puláw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜏ᜔)

  1. watching at night over a sick or dead person
    Synonyms: paglalamay, pagpupuyat, lamay
  2. act of lopping or cutting off a branch (of a tree)
    Synonyms: pulay, pusad, pulak
  3. European white water lily; white waterlily (Nymphaea alba)
  4. a variety of taro
Derived terms
  • kapulawan
  • pulawan
  • pulawin

Etymology 2

Blend of pula +‎ dilaw.

Noun

puláw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜏ᜔) (neologism)

  1. orange
    Synonyms: kahel, (obsolete) bulantubig

Further reading

  • “pulaw”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
  • “pulaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
  • Lupon sa Agham (1969), Gonsalo del Rosario, editor, Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino [Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino] (overall work in English and Tagalog), Manila: National Book Store, Inc., →LCCN, →OL
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