utaw
Cebuano
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Hokkien 熨斗 (ut-táu, “an iron (for pressing clothes)”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: u‧taw
Noun
utaw
- a smoothing iron; an iron (for pressing clothes)
- Synonym: plantsa
Verb
utaw
- to iron out
Derived terms
- inutaw
- inutawan
- mangutaw
- pag-utaw
- pangutaw
- tigpautaw
- tig-utaw
- ulutawan
- utawan
- utawanan
- utawan nga kinabayu
- utawon
- utawonon
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hokkien 烏豆／乌豆 (o͘-tāu, “(black) soybean”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: u‧taw
Noun
utaw
- soybean
Higaonon
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau.
Noun
utaw
- person
Tagalog
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Hokkien 烏豆 (o͘-tāu, “(black) soybean”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: u‧taw
- IPA(key): /ˈʔutaw/, [ˈʔu.taʊ̯]
Noun
utaw (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜆᜏ᜔)
- soybean
Etymology 2
From tao.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: u‧taw
- IPA(key): /ʔuˈtaw/, [ʔʊˈtaʊ̯]
Noun
utáw (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜆᜏ᜔)
- (slang) man; person
Further reading
- Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 151