kawing
English
Verb
kawing
- present participle and gerund of kaw
Anagrams
Hiligaynon
Noun
káwing
Verb
káwing
- to copulate
Maranao
Etymology
Noun
kawing
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- cauing — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kawiŋ (“link in a chain; joined together, as links in a chain, people in sexual intercourse or marriage; hands joined in crossing pattern in circle dance”). See also Malay kahwin.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kaˈwiŋ/ [kɐˈwɪŋ]
- Rhymes: -iŋ
- Syllabification: ka‧wing
Noun
kawíng (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒᜅ᜔)
- link of a chain
- act of linking one thing to another (with a hook or link)
- Synonym: pagkakawing
- state of being linked together (as parts of a chain)
Derived terms
- ikawing
- kawing-kawing
- kawing-kawingin
- kawingan
- kumawing
- magkakawing
- magkawing
- nakakawing
- pagkakawing
- pagkawing-kawing
- pagkawing-kawingin
- pagkawingin
See also
References
- “kawing”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kawiŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI