kaw

kaw

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

• Rhymes: -ɔː

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 […]

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.

• Kwa, awk

kaw

1. you (singular)

kaw

1. (Mpakwithi) lice

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

Initial clipping of ikaw

kaw

1. you.

kaw

1. you

• IPA^(key): /kaf/

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• Rhymes: -af
• Syllabification: kaw

kaw f

1. genitive plural of kawa

kaw

1. seashore

• IPA^(key): /kaw/

From English cow.

kaw

1. cow

Borrowed from Dutch kauwen.

kaw

1. to chew, to masticate

• kawkaw

• IPA^(key): /kaɨ̯˧/

kaw

1. to close; to shut.

• qe

kaw

1. saw.

kaw

1. to saw.

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

kaw

1. village, countryside