aw

• aww

Natural exclamation.^[1]

• enPR: ô; IPA^(key): /ɔː/, [ɔ̃ː ~ ɒ̃ː]

• Audio (US):

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• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑ/
• Homophones: awe; or (non-rhotic); oar, ore, o'er (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː

aw

1. Used to express disappointment or dismay.

   Aw, that's too bad...

2. Used to express mild protest, entreaty, consternation, or disapproval.

   Aw, dad, why can't we go to Legoland?

3. Used to express affection.

   Aw, you've got such a cute baby bird!

4. (childish) Used to anticipate telling a person in authority that the listener has done something wrong.

   Synonyms: oh, ooh

   Aww, you said a bad word!

aw (plural aws)

1. An instance of aw.
   • 2009 June 17, Randal C. Archibold, “Election at a Draw, Arizona Town Cuts a Deck”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Mr. McGuire, 64, a retired science teacher and two-term incumbent on the Town Council, selected a card, the six of hearts, drawing approving oos and aws from his supporters.

• W. A., W.A., WA, Wa, Wa., wa

• IPA^(key): /aw/

aw class IV gender f

1. fight, sharpness, pain

• SIL International (2020) “Abau Dictionary”, in Webonary.org‎^[2]

aw

1. your (plural)

aw

1. you (plural)

• IPA^(key): /aw/, [aʊ]

aw

1. woman

• Mark Hepner, Bargam Dictionary (2002)
• Carol and Mark Hepner, Bargam phonology essentials (1989) and Bargam Organised Phonology Data (1992)

• Hyphenation: aw

Unknown.

aw

1. an expression of surprise
2. an expression of wonder, amazement, or awe
3. an expression of understanding, recognition, or realization

A reverse spelling of wala.

aw

1. not
2. without; lacking something

aw

1. mouth

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaw/ [ˈʔaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -aw
• Syllabification: aw

aw

1. yes; used to show agreement or acceptance.

• IPA^(key): /ɔɔ/

aw

1. to be (located, in existence, etc.)

• Rachel Gray, Jose Benavides (2022) “Wh-Question Formation in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[3], volume 3, number 1

From hawn.

aw?

1. "yes?"; "what is it?"

From Old Irish om (“raw, uncooked”) (compare Irish amh), from Proto-Celtic *omos (compare Welsh of), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emós, *h₂eh₃mós. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὠμός (ōmós), Sanskrit आम (āmá) and Old Armenian հում (hum, “raw”).

aw (comparative awey)

1. raw, uncooked
2. crude
3. undressed

aw

1. alternative form of awe

• áw (obsolete)

From Pre-Nauruan *ae, from Proto-Micronesian *afe, from Eastern Proto-Oceanic *ave.

aw

1. to swim

• IPA^(key): /ɑː/, /ɔː/
• (Northern Scots, Northern Isles) IPA^(key): /aː/

aw (plural aws)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter A/a.

• aw-bay-say

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; aw, bay, say, day, ay, eff, gay, aitch, ey / ee, jye, kye / kay, ell, em, enn, oa, pay, quee, err, ess, tay, ou, vowe, dooble-ou, ex, wye, zed / ized, yoch

aw (not comparable)

1. alternative form of a' (“all”)

• “aw, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːˌveː/

aw c

1. initialism of afterwork (“post-work event”)

Compare English ow (“cry of pain”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔaw/ [ˈʔaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -aw
• Syllabification: aw

aw (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏ᜔) (informal, colloquial)

1. ouch (an expression of one's own physical pain)

   Synonyms: aray, a

• wa

Other scripts
Latin	aw‍
Cyrillic	ав‍
Arabic	آو

From Proto-Turkic *āb (“hunt, chase”).

aw (definite accusative awy, plural awlar)

1. hunting
2. hunt
3. prey

From Proto-Iranian *Hā́fš (“water”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hā́ps (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water, body of water”). Compare Persian آب (âb), Pashto اوبه (obë), Avestan 𐬀𐬞 (ap), etc.

aw

1. (Dimli) water

• uwe

• Tood, A Grammar of Dim(i)li (2008)