yawa

Akin to Hiligaynon yawa.

• Hyphenation: ya‧wa
• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈjawaʔ/ [ˈja.wɐʔ]
• (Bohol, Southern Leyte) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒawaʔ/ [ˈd͡ʒa.wɐʔ]

yawà

1. (theology) devil

   Synonym: diyablo

2. (theology) Devil

   Synonym: diyablo

3. imp
4. (religion) evil entity
5. (religion) malevolence; wickedness

yawà

1. evil; wicked
2. barbaric; savage

yawà!

1. (vulgar) Term of abuse

• masyawaka
• yawan-on

• away, ayaw

yawa

1. point; tip

From Proto-Malayic *ñawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nihawa, from Proto-Austronesian *NiSawa. Cognate of Acehnese nyawöng.

• IPA^(key): /zawaː/

yawa (Akhar Thrah spelling ꨢꨥꨩ)

1. sound

• nyawa

• IPA^(key): /já.wàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [jɛ́.wàː]

yawā̀ m (possessed form yawàn)

1. quantity

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 225.

Compare Cebuano yawa. From Nagmalitong Yawa Sinagmaling Diwata, a goddess in the Suludnon epic Hinilawod, according to F. Landa Jocano.

yawà

1. devil; evil spirit; demon

yawà!

1. (vulgar) term of abuse

• yawan-on

• John Kaufmann (1934) Visayan-English Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in Hiligaynon and English), page 538

yawa

1. Rōmaji transcription of やわ

yawa

1. devil; evil spirit; demon

• IPA^(key): /ja.wa/
• Rhymes: -wa
• Hyphenation: ya‧wa

Borrowed from Sanskrit यव (yava, “barley”).

yawa

1. barley

Unknown, probably Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)zauq.

yawa

1. outside

• yawā
• yawi

• "yawa" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

yawa

1. swim^[1]

• yaRaka (“swim”)
• erra-ge (“swim”)