hinaw

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• hunaw

Etymology

Compare hinawnaw.

The idiomatic sense is from The Bible's account of Pontius Pilate washing his hands and refusing to condemn Jesus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hi‧naw

Verb

hinaw

1. to wash one's hands or another's
2. (idiomatic) to wash one's hands of; to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hinaw.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hiñaw, from Proto-Austronesian *Siñaw.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /hiˈnaw/ [hɪˈn̪aʊ̯], /ˈhinaw/ [ˈhiː.n̪aʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -aw, -inaw
• Syllabification: hi‧naw

Noun

hináw or hinaw (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜈᜏ᜔) (now dialectal, Batangas, Quezon)

1. washing of one's hands or feet

Derived terms

• hinawan
• maghinaw
• paghihinaw
• panghihinawan

 

See also

• hugas

Further reading

• “hinaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Siñaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI