hinaw

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare hinawnaw.

The idiomatic sense is from The Bible's account of Pontius Pilate washing his hands and refusing to condemn Jesus.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: hi‧naw

Verb

hinaw

  1. to wash one's hands or another's
  2. (idiomatic) to wash one's hands of; to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hiñaw, from Proto-Austronesian *Siñaw.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /hiˈnaw/ [hɪˈn̪aʊ̯], /ˈhinaw/ [ˈhiː.n̪aʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -aw, -inaw
  • Syllabification: hi‧naw

Noun

hináw or hinaw (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜈᜏ᜔) (now dialectal, Batangas, Quezon)

  1. washing of one's hands or feet

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • “hinaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Siñaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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