timawa

== Cebuano == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa === Adjective === timawa impoverished === Noun === timawa the poor (historical) a freeman (historical) the feudal warrior class of the ancient Visayan societies of the Philippines === Verb === timawa (historical) to emancipate an ulipon ==== Descendants ==== → Spanish: timagua → Tagalog: timawa == Hiligaynon == === Noun === timáwà a citizen or member of a community === Verb === timáwà to free or liberate == Kapampangan == === Noun === timawa Súlat Wáwâ spelling of timaua == Pangasinan == === Alternative forms === timaoa === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ti‧ma‧wa IPA(key): /tiˈmawa/, [tɪˈma.wa] Rhymes: -awa === Noun === timawa (historical) freeman commoner; plebeian == Tagalog == === Alternative forms === timaua, timagua — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling timagwa === Etymology === Compare Kapampangan timaua, Cebuano timawa, Hiligaynon timawa, and Ilocano timmawa. See also Classical Malay istimewa (“special; privilege”), which is said to have come from Sanskrit आस्तामेव (āstāmeva, literally “May it keep on being so.”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tiˈmawaʔ/ [t̪ɪˈmaː.wɐʔ] Rhymes: -awaʔ Syllabification: ti‧ma‧wa === Noun === timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ) (colloquial) glutton; voracious eater Synonym: patay-gutom (colloquial) mean or despicable person (colloquial) stupid person; fool Synonyms: bobo, tanga (colloquial, rare) poor or destitute person Synonyms: dukha, hampaslupa, busabos (historical) privileged intermediate class (historical) freeman; emancipated slave (obsolete) act of freeing oneself from danger or calamity Synonym: paglaya (obsolete) act of manumission ==== Usage notes ==== The word timawa used to refer to privileged middle classes but during the Spanish period, the sense demoted to “freemen”. The meaning further evolved to its modern meaning to be “a poor person”. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== === Adjective === timawà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋᜏ) vile; abject Synonyms: imbi, hamak, bulisik, bulisiksik (colloquial) poor Synonyms: mahirap, dukha (colloquial) gluttonous Synonyms: matakaw, masiba (obsolete) ignoble; plebeian Synonyms: karaniwan, polista (obsolete) free; emancipated (of a former slave) Synonym: malaya === Further reading === “timawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018 San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 389: “Libre) Timava (pp) ſin eſclauonia, ni rrico ni pobre, mang̃a timava, los libres, la jente comun del pueblo deſpues delos magnates”