"tawa" meaning in English

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        "3": "तवा"
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      "expansion": "Hindi तवा (tavā)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hindi तवा (tavā).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tawas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cookware and bakeware",
          "orig": "en:Cookware and bakeware",
          "parents": [
            "Kitchenware",
            "Cooking",
            "Home appliances",
            "Tools",
            "Food and drink",
            "Home",
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            "Society",
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          "ref": "2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 6:",
          "text": "Deeti gave her daughter the job of sweeping the poppy petals into a heap while she busied herself in stoking the fire and heating a heavy iron tawa.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A frying pan or griddle."
      ],
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        [
          "frying pan",
          "frying pan"
        ],
        [
          "griddle",
          "griddle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Asia) A frying pan or griddle."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "tava"
        }
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        "South-Asia"
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  "word": "tawa"
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          "_dis": "27 36 0 3 11 3 3 4 1 4 4 3",
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          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Laurel family plants",
          "orig": "en:Laurel family plants",
          "parents": [
            "Magnoliids",
            "Shrubs",
            "Trees",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
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            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
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      "glosses": [
        "Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree."
      ],
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          "New Zealand",
          "New Zealand"
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          "broadleaf",
          "broadleaf"
        ],
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          "tree",
          "tree"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "word": "tawa"
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    "en:Cookware and bakeware",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hindi तवा (tavā).",
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    {
      "form": "tawas",
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          "ref": "2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 6:",
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        }
      ],
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        "A frying pan or griddle."
      ],
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        ],
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          "griddle",
          "griddle"
        ]
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        "(South Asia) A frying pan or griddle."
      ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tava"
    }
  ],
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    "en:Cookware and bakeware",
    "en:Laurel family plants"
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      "form": "tawas",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
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        "Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree."
      ],
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          "broadleaf"
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