gawa-gawa

Tagalog

Etymology

Reduplication of gawa.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡaˌwaʔ ɡaˈwaʔ/ [ɡɐˌwaʔ ɡɐˈwaʔ]
  • IPA^(key): (with glottal stop elision) /ɡaˌwa(ʔ) ɡaˈwaʔ/ [ɡɐˌwaː ɣɐˈwaʔ]

• Audio (with glottal stop elision):

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• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ga‧wa-ga‧wa

Noun

gawâ-gawâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜏᜄᜏ)

1. fictitious story; fabricated story

   Puro kathang-isip at gawa-gawa ang mga isinusulat niyang kuwento.

   His writing comprises of fiction and fabricated stories.

Adjective

gawâ-gawâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜏᜄᜏ)

1. fictitious; fabricated; made-up

   Synonyms: imbento, imbensiyon, kathang-isip

2. artificial

Derived terms

• gumawa-gawa

Related terms

• gawain
• kagagawan
• kawanggawa
• maggawa
• pagawaan

 

Further reading

• “gawa-gawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• del Rosario, Gonsalo (1969) Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino [Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino] (overall work in English and Tagalog), Manila: National Book Store, Inc., →LCCN, →OL