kawit

• IPA^(key): /ˈkawit/ [ˈka.wit]
• Hyphenation: ka‧wit

káwit (Basahan spelling ᜃᜏᜒᜆ᜔)

1. hook

   Synonym: gantso

• cavit, cauit — obsolete

Compare kaw-it.

• Hyphenation: ka‧wit
• IPA^(key): /ˈkawit/ [ˈka.wɪt̪]

kawit

1. container for tapping tuba, a bamboo culm internode with one end cut open

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kawit.

kawít

1. hook

kawit

1. hook

Presumably ka- +‎ awit or ka- +‎ wit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.wit/

kawit

1. beginning; origin

   Synonyms: asal, awit, mimiti

• Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij
• "kawit" in Maman Sumantri, Atjep Djamaludin, Achmad Patoni, R.H. Moch. Koerdie, M.O. Koesman, Epa Sjafei Adisastra. (1985) Kamus Sunda-Indonesia [Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia

• cavit, cauit — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkawit/ [ˈkaː.wɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -awit
• Syllabification: ka‧wit

From Proto-Austronesian *kawit (“hook”). Compare Malay kait and Coastal Kadazan kavit. Doublet of kabit.

kawit (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒᜆ᜔)

1. hook; grapnel

   Synonyms: kalawit, gantso, sabitan

2. fastener; hasp (as on a necklace, door, window, etc.)
3. pole with a hook at the end (for picking fruits, coconuts, etc.)

   Synonyms: pangawit, pangkawit

4. hook attached at the end (for picking fruits, coconuts, etc.)

   Synonym: kalawit

5. act of pulling, getting, or picking with a pole with a hook at the end

   Synonyms: pagkawit, pagkalawit

• ngawit — common

kawit (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒᜆ᜔)

1. (obsolete) numbing or weakening due to long use in holding or supporting (of one's muscles, hands, feet, etc.)

• This word is still used today is the form ngawit as well as in its compound forms.

• “kawit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

kawit

1. hook