kaw

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Translingual

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Symbol

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kaw

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old Javanese.

English

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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kaw (third-person singular simple present kaws, present participle kawing, simple past and past participle kawed)

  1. Alternative form of caw
    • 1968, Ernest Ingersoll, Birds in legend, fable, and folklore:
      [] difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada []

Noun

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kaw (plural kaws)

  1. Alternative form of caw
    • 2013, Guenther Witzany, Biocommunication of Animals, page 197:
      Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short staccato sequence of 3–5 kaws at the start of the feeding session.

Anagrams

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Alangan

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Pronoun

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kaw

  1. you (singular)

Anguthimri

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Noun

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kaw

  1. (Mpakwithi) lice

References

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  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Cebuano

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Etymology

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Clipping of ikaw.

Pronoun

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kaw

  1. you

Kalasha

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit काल (kālá, time, fixed point of time).

Noun

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kaw

  1. year

Maranao

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Pronoun

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kaw

  1. you

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkaf/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -af
  • Syllabification: kaw
  • Homophone: Kaw

Noun

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kaw f

  1. genitive plural of kawa

Southern Ohlone

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Noun

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kaw

  1. seashore

Sranan Tongo

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From English cow.

Noun

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kaw

  1. cow

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Dutch kauwen.

Verb

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kaw

  1. to chew, to masticate
Derived terms
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White Hmong

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Etymology 1

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kaw

  1. to close; to shut.
Synonyms
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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kaw

  1. saw.

Verb

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kaw

  1. to saw.

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

Wolof

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Noun

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kaw

  1. village, countryside