bakaw

English

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Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈkɔː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː

Interjection

bakaw

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

     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^[2] (Usenet):

     She's just a big chicken.
     Bawk, bawk, bakaw!

   • 2012, Wai Chin, Chook Chook: Mei's Secret Pets‎^[3], 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.

Usage notes

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

Limos Kalinga

Noun

bakaw

1. corn

Maranao

Noun

bakaw

1. mangrove

Derived terms

• bakawan

Verb

bakaw

1. to control, to manipulate

Tagalog

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbakaw/ [ˈbaː.xaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -akaw
• Syllabification: ba‧kaw

Noun

bakaw (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜏ᜔) (botany)

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

Derived terms

• bakawan
• bakawang-babae
• bakawang-lalaki

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbakaw/ [ˈbaː.xaʊ̯], /baˈkaw/ [bɐˈxaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -akaw, -aw
• Syllabification: ba‧kaw

Noun

bakaw or bakáw (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜏ᜔)

1. heron

Derived terms

• bakaw-gabi

 

Related terms

• tagak
• tikling
• tinikling

 

Further reading

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