bakaw

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /bəˈkɔː/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː

bakaw

1. The cluck of a chicken.
   • 2000 January 10, NetGuy [username], “Re: Hello Guys!!”, in alt.romance.teen (Usenet newsgroup)‎:

     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 newsgroup)‎:

     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.

• Often used to indirectly call someone a chicken (coward).

bakaw

1. corn

bakaw

1. mangrove

• bakawan

bakaw

1. to control, to manipulate

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bakəhaw (“mangrove”). Compare Cebuano bakhaw, Tausug bakkaw, and Malay bakau.

• Hyphenation: ba‧kaw
• IPA^(key): /ˈbakaw/, [ˈba.xaʊ̯]

bakaw

1. loop-root mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)

   Synonyms: bakawan, bangkaw, bakawang-babae

2. Utania racemosa (a species of flowering plant used as snake bite antidote)

   Synonym: kabal

• Hyphenation: ba‧kaw
• IPA^(key): /ˈbakaw/, [ˈba.xaʊ̯]
• IPA^(key): /baˈkaw/, [bɐˈxaʊ̯]

bakaw or bakáw

1. heron

• tagak
• tinikling
• tikling