kaw

Clipping of English Kawi.

kaw

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old Javanese.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Javanese terms

• Rhymes: -ɔː

kaw (third-person singular simple present kaws, present participle kawing, simple past and past participle kawed)

1. Alternative form of caw.
   • 1968, Ernest Ingersoll, Birds in legend, fable, and folklore:

     […] difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada […]

kaw (plural kaws)

1. Alternative form of caw.
   • 2013, Guenther Witzany, Biocommunication of Animals, page 197:

     Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short staccato sequence of 3–5 kaws at the start of the feeding session.

• Kwa, awk

kaw

1. you (singular)

kaw

1. (Mpakwithi) lice

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Clipping of ikaw.

kaw

1. you

From Sanskrit काल (kālá, “time, fixed point of time”).

kaw

1. year

kaw

1. you

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaf/

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• Rhymes: -af
• Syllabification: kaw
• Homophone: Kaw

kaw f

1. genitive plural of kawa

kaw

1. seashore

• IPA^(key): /kaw/

From English cow.

kaw

1. cow

Borrowed from Dutch kauwen.

kaw

1. to chew, to masticate

• IPA^(key): /kaɨ̯˧/

kaw

1. to close; to shut.

• qe

kaw

1. saw.

kaw

1. to saw.

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

kaw

1. village, countryside