tawas

tawas

1. plural of tawa

• wasta

From Malay tawas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtawas/ [ˈt̪a.wɐs̪]
• Hyphenation: ta‧was

tawas

1. alum

Inherited from Malay tawas, probably from Sanskrit तवस् (tavas, “strong”). Cognate of Tagalog tawas. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtawas]
• Hyphenation: ta‧was

tawas (plural tawas-tawas)

1. alum

• “tawas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tawas (Jawi spelling تاوس, plural tawas-tawas)

1. alum

• Indonesian: tawas
• → Cebuano: tawas
• → Tagalog: tawas
• → Waray-Waray: tawas

• “tawas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• tauas — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Borrowed from Malay tawas. Compare Cebuano tawas and Waray-Waray tawas.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtawas/ [ˈt̪aː.wɐs] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -awas
  • IPA^(key): /taˈwas/ [t̪ɐˈwas] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: ta‧was

tawas (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏᜐ᜔)

1. alum

   Synonyms: alumbre, piyedralumbre, tinggal, potasa, (obsolete) binghuwan

2. practice of burning of alum crystals with praying in quackery (to determine the cause of a person's sickness)

   Synonyms: pagtawas, pagtatawas

tawás (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜏᜐ᜔)

1. freed or saved from evil or misfortune

• “tawas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “alum”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Malay tawas.

tawas

1. alum