ligaw

• Hyphenation: li‧gaw

ligaw

1. to do something right by accident

• giwal, lawig, liwag

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.ɡaf/
• Rhymes: -iɡaf
• Syllabification: li‧gaw

ligaw f

1. genitive plural of ligawa

• ligao — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈliɡaw/ [ˈliː.ɣaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -iɡaw
• Syllabification: li‧gaw

ligaw (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜄᜏ᜔)

1. courtship; wooing; courting

   Synonyms: paniningalang-pugad, pangingibig

2. wooer; suitor

   Synonyms: manliligaw, mangingibig

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rəgaw (“wander, stray”). Compare Pangasinan legaw and Hiligaynon ligaw.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /liˈɡaw/ [lɪˈɣaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -aw
• Syllabification: li‧gaw

ligáw (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜄᜏ᜔)

1. strayed; lost in the way
2. wild; undomesticated; uncultivated
3. runaway; untethered; stray; freely roaming (usually of animals)

   Synonyms: alpas, kawala

4. stray (of bullets)
5. misguided; wrong

   Synonyms: mali, lisya, lihis

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

• lawig, Liwag