dawb
See also: daWb
English
editVerb
editdawb (third-person singular simple present dawbs, present participle dawbing, simple past and past participle dawbed)
Noun
editdawb (plural dawbs)
Anagrams
editWhite Hmong
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Hmong *qlowᴬ (“white”).[1] The "free" sense is perhaps a semantic loan from Thai ขาว (kǎao, “white”) or Lao ຂາວ (khāo, “white”), both which have a colloquial usage meaning "free of charge".
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdawb
Adjective
editdawb
Adverb
editdawb
Derived terms
edit- Hmoob Dawb (“White Hmong”)
References
edit- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 243; 274.
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- English countable nouns
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- White Hmong terms derived from Proto-Hmong
- White Hmong semantic loans from Thai
- White Hmong terms derived from Thai
- White Hmong terms with IPA pronunciation
- White Hmong lemmas
- White Hmong adjectives
- White Hmong adverbs
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