timawa
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa
Adjective
timawa
- impoverished
Noun
timawa
- the poor
- (historical) a freeman
- (historical) the feudal warrior class of the ancient Visayan societies of the Philippines
Verb
timawa
- (historical) to emancipate an ulipon
Descendants
- → Spanish: timagua
- → Tagalog: timawa
Hiligaynon
Noun
timáwà
- A citizen or member of a community
Verb
timáwà
- To free or liberate
Kapampangan
Noun
timawa
- Súlat Wáwâ spelling of timaua
Pangasinan
Alternative forms
- timaoa
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa
- IPA(key): /tiˈmawa/, [tɪˈma.wa]
- Rhymes: -awa
Noun
timawa
- (historical) freeman
- commoner; plebeian
Part or all of this Pangasinan entry has been imported from the 1865 edition of Diccionario pangasinan-español. The imported definitions may be significantly outdated, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- timaua, timagua – obsolete, Early Latinate spelling
- timagwa
Etymology
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 Cebuano timawa, Hiligaynon timawa, and Ilocano timmawa.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa
- IPA(key): /tiˈmawaʔ/, [tɪˈma.wɐʔ]
- Rhymes: -awaʔ
Noun
timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ)
- (historical) privileged intermediate class
- (historical) freeman; emancipated slave
- (obsolete) act of freeing oneself from danger or calamity
- Synonym: paglaya
- (obsolete) act of manumission
- (colloquial) glutton; voracious eater
- Synonym: patay-gutom
- (colloquial) mean or despicable person
- (colloquial) stupid person; fool
- Synonyms: bobo, tanga
- (colloquial, rare) poor or destitute person
- Synonyms: dukha, hampaslupa, busabos
Usage notes
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”.
Derived terms
- katimawaan
- magtimawa
- matimawa
- pagkatimawa
- pagtimawa
- pagtimawaan
- timawain
- tumimawa
See also
- maharlika
Adjective
timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ)
- (colloquial) poor
- Synonyms: mahirap, dukha
- (colloquial) gluttonous
- Synonyms: matakaw, masiba
- vile; abject
- Synonyms: imbi, hamak, bulisik, bulisiksik
- (obsolete) ignoble; plebeian
- Synonyms: karaniwan, polista
- (obsolete) free; emancipated (of a former slave)
- Synonym: malaya
Further reading
- “timawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018