Cebuano edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: tu‧maw

Etymology 1 edit

Compare gimaw.

Verb edit

tumaw

  1. to emerge
  2. to turn up; to show up; to appear sudenly or unexpectedly

Etymology 2 edit

From older tumao.

Noun edit

tumaw

  1. (historical) the nobility; the descendants of a datu

Quotations edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tumaw.