ligaw
Cebuano edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: li‧gaw
Verb edit
ligaw
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Noun edit
ligaw f
Tagalog edit
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Etymology 1 edit
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Noun edit
ligaw (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜄᜏ᜔)
- courtship; wooing; courting
- Synonyms: paniningalang-pugad, pangingibig
- wooer; suitor
- Synonyms: manliligaw, mangingibig
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Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rəgaw (“wander, stray”). Compare Pangasinan legaw and Hiligaynon ligaw.
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Adjective edit
ligáw (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜄᜏ᜔)
- strayed; lost in the way
- wild; undomesticated; uncultivated
- runaway; untethered; stray; freely roaming (usually of animals)
- stray (of bullets)
- misguided; wrong
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Further reading edit
- “ligaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018