lutaw

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bisayan *lətaw, from Proto-Central Philippine *lətaw, from Proto-Philippine *lətaw, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lətaw.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: lu‧taw

Verb

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lutaw

  1. to float, to cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density
  2. to be capable of floating
  3. to move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating
  4. to drift gently through air
  5. to levitate

Tausug

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Noun

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lutaw

  1. spirit of a dead person (forced because of his badness to return to earth as an evil-smelling, half decayed body), evil ghost