timawa

Cebuano

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa

Adjective

timawa

  1. impoverished

Noun

timawa

  1. the poor
  2. (historical) a freeman
  3. (historical) the feudal warrior class of the ancient Visayan societies of the Philippines

Verb

timawa

  1. (historical) to emancipate an ulipon

Descendants
  • → Spanish: timagua
  • → Tagalog: timawa

Hiligaynon

Noun

timáwà

  1. A citizen or member of a community

Verb

timáwà

  1. To free or liberate

Kapampangan

Noun

timawa

  1. Súlat Wáwâ spelling of timaua

Pangasinan

Alternative forms
  • timaoa

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa
  • IPA(key): /tiˈmawa/, [tɪˈma.wa]
  • Rhymes: -awa

Noun

timawa

  1. (historical) freeman
  2. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly outdated, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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)

  1. (historical) privileged intermediate class
  2. (historical) freeman; emancipated slave
  3. (obsolete) act of freeing oneself from danger or calamity
    Synonym: paglaya
  4. (obsolete) act of manumission
  5. (colloquial) glutton; voracious eater
    Synonym: patay-gutom
  6. (colloquial) mean or despicable person
  7. (colloquial) stupid person; fool
    Synonyms: bobo, tanga
  8. (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

Adjective

timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ)

  1. (colloquial) poor
    Synonyms: mahirap, dukha
  2. (colloquial) gluttonous
    Synonyms: matakaw, masiba
  3. vile; abject
    Synonyms: imbi, hamak, bulisik, bulisiksik
  4. (obsolete) ignoble; plebeian
    Synonyms: karaniwan, polista
  5. (obsolete) free; emancipated (of a former slave)
    Synonym: malaya

Further reading
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