timawa

• Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa

timawa

1. impoverished

timawa

1. the poor
2. (historical) a freeman
3. (historical) the feudal warrior class of the ancient Visayan societies of the Philippines

timawa

1. (historical) to emancipate an ulipon

• → Spanish: timagua
• → Tagalog: timawa

timáwà

1. a citizen or member of a community

timáwà

1. to free or liberate

timawa

1. Súlat Wáwâ spelling of timaua

• timaoa

• Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa
• IPA^(key): /tiˈmawa/, [tɪˈma.wa]
• Rhymes: -awa

timawa

1. (historical) freeman
2. commoner; plebeian

• timaua, timagua — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• timagwa

Possibly related to Classical Malay istimewa (“special; privilege”), which is said to have come from Sanskrit आस्तामेव (āstāmeva, literally “May it keep on being so.”).

Compare Kapampangan timaua, Cebuano timawa, Hiligaynon timawa, and Ilocano timmawa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tiˈmawaʔ/ [t̪ɪˈmaː.wɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -awaʔ
• Syllabification: ti‧ma‧wa

timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ)

1. (colloquial) glutton; voracious eater

   Synonym: patay-gutom

2. (colloquial) mean or despicable person
3. (colloquial) stupid person; fool

   Synonyms: bobo, tanga

4. (colloquial, rare) poor or destitute person

   Synonyms: dukha, hampaslupa, busabos

5. (historical) privileged intermediate class
6. (historical) freeman; emancipated slave
7. (obsolete) act of freeing oneself from danger or calamity

   Synonym: paglaya

8. (obsolete) act of manumission

• The word timawa used to refer to privileged middle classes but during the Spanish period, the sense demoted to “freemen”. The meaning further evolved to its modern meaning to be “a poor person”.

timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ)

1. vile; abject

   Synonyms: imbi, hamak, bulisik, bulisiksik

2. (colloquial) poor

   Synonyms: mahirap, dukha

3. (colloquial) gluttonous

   Synonyms: matakaw, masiba

4. (obsolete) ignoble; plebeian

   Synonyms: karaniwan, polista

5. (obsolete) free; emancipated (of a former slave)

   Synonym: malaya

• “timawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 389: “Libre) Timava (pp) ſin eſclauonia, ni rrico ni pobre, mang̃a timava, los libres, la jente comun del pueblo deſpues delos magnates”