bakaw
English
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Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈkɔː/
Audio (Berkshire, UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː
Interjection
bakaw
- The cluck of a chicken.
- 2000 January 10, NetGuy [username], “Re: Hello Guys!!”, in alt.romance.teen, Usenet:
- Saying this in the nicest way possible.... BAKAW BUK BUK BACAW
- 2002 April 27, Jim Larson, “Re: (spoilers ahoy!) okay well I've given up”, in alt.tv.farscape, Usenet:
- She's just a big chicken.
Bawk, bawk, bakaw!
- 2012, Wai Chin, Chook Chook: Mei's Secret Pets, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:
- The one-eyed butcher's stall, with its buckets of guts and crates of eggs, stood before me. I could see the one-eyed butcher perched behind a massive chopping block, swiftly hacking away.
BAWK! BAWK! BA-KAW!
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bakaw.
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Usage notes
- Often used to indirectly call someone a chicken (coward).
Limos Kalinga
Noun
bakaw
- corn
Maranao
Noun
bakaw
- mangrove
Derived terms
- bakawan
Verb
bakaw
- to control, to manipulate
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bakəhaw (“mangrove”). Compare Cebuano bakhaw, Tausug bakkaw, and Malay bakau.
Pronunciation 1
- Hyphenation: ba‧kaw
- IPA(key): /ˈbakaw/, [ˈba.xaʊ̯]
Noun
bakaw
- loop-root mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)
- Synonyms: bakawan, bangkaw, bakawang-babae
- Utania racemosa (a species of flowering plant used as snake bite antidote)
- Synonym: kabal
Derived terms
- bakawan
- bakawang-babae
- bakawang-lalaki
Pronunciation 2
- Hyphenation: ba‧kaw
- IPA(key): /ˈbakaw/, [ˈba.xaʊ̯]
- IPA(key): /baˈkaw/, [bɐˈxaʊ̯]
Noun
bakaw or bakáw
- heron
Derived terms
- bakaw-gabi
Related terms
- tagak
- tinikling
- tikling