sapaw
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧paw
- IPA(key): /ˈsapaw/, [ˈsa.paʊ̯]
Noun
sapaw
- first appearance or surfacing of spikes of grain (especially of rice plants)
- spikes of grain that have just surfaced (on a rice field)
- (colloquial, figurative) overshadowing; upstaging; outdoing
- spreading over (of vines on a trellis)
- first fruits of a tree
- early season fruiting
- (pathology) surfacing of skin diseases (as from an allergy)
- (pathology) drying up or cicatrizing of a skin disease
- cooking of something placed on the surface of rice being cooked on a pot (especially eggs)
- something cooked in such a manner (especially eggs)
Derived terms
- masapawan
- sapawan