"tawa" meaning in Indonesian

See tawa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈtawa] Forms: tawa-tawa [plural]
Etymology: From Malay tawa, from Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa. Etymology templates: {{der|id|ms|tawa}} Malay tawa, {{der|id|poz-mly-pro|*tawa(ʔ)}} Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), {{der|id|poz-pro|*tawa}} Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, {{der|id|map-pro|*Cawa}} Proto-Austronesian *Cawa Head templates: {{id-noun}} tawa (plural tawa-tawa)
  1. laugh Derived forms: ketawa, menertawakan, mentertawai, mentertawakan, penertawaan, tertawa, tertawa-tawa, tertawaan
    Sense id: en-tawa-id-noun-MeKJ9TZo Categories (other): Laughter Disambiguation of Laughter: 79 21

Verb

IPA: [ˈtawa]
Etymology: From Malay tawa, from Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, from Proto-Austronesian *Cawa. Etymology templates: {{der|id|ms|tawa}} Malay tawa, {{der|id|poz-mly-pro|*tawa(ʔ)}} Proto-Malayic *tawa(ʔ), {{der|id|poz-pro|*tawa}} Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tawa, {{der|id|map-pro|*Cawa}} Proto-Austronesian *Cawa Head templates: {{head|id|verb}} tawa Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], tawa [root], - [active, error-unrecognized-form, nominative], tertawa [error-unrecognized-form, nominative, passive], ketawa [error-unrecognized-form, nominative, passive], - [error-unrecognized-form, nominative, passive], tawa [error-unrecognized-form, nominative], tawalah [error-unrecognized-form, nominative], menertawai [active, error-unrecognized-form], - [error-unrecognized-form, passive], ditertawai [error-unrecognized-form, passive], - [error-unrecognized-form], menertawakan [active, error-unrecognized-form], tertawakan [error-unrecognized-form, passive], ditertawakan [error-unrecognized-form, passive], tertawakan [error-unrecognized-form], tawakan [error-unrecognized-form], tertawakanlah [error-unrecognized-form], mempertawa [active, causative, nominative], - [causative, error-unrecognized-form, nominative, passive], - [causative, error-unrecognized-form, nominative], mempertawai [active, causative, error-unrecognized-form], - [causative, error-unrecognized-form, passive], dipertawai [causative, error-unrecognized-form, passive], - [causative, error-unrecognized-form], mempertawakan [active, causative, error-unrecognized-form], dipertawakan [causative, error-unrecognized-form, passive]
  1. to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)
    Sense id: en-tawa-id-verb-dtcQaW3p Categories (other): Indonesian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Indonesian entries with incorrect language header: 12 88
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
    {
      "form": "tawakan",
      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
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        "to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)"
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      "ipa": "[ˈtawa]"
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    },
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "menertawai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "passive"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ditertawai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "passive"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "-",
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        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    },
    {
      "form": "menertawakan",
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "tertawakan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ditertawakan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "passive"
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    },
    {
      "form": "tertawakan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tawakan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tertawakanlah",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mempertawa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "causative",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
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    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    },
    {
      "form": "mempertawakan",
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      "tags": [
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        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    },
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        "passive"
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  "hyphenation": [
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  ],
  "lang": "Indonesian",
  "lang_code": "id",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to laugh (show mirth by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face and emission of sounds)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "laugh",
          "laugh"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtawa]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tawa"
}

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  "subsection": "verb",
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  "trace": ""
}

{
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  "trace": ""
}

{
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  "section": "Indonesian",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "tawa",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "trace": ""
}

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}

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  "title": "tawa",
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}

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'accusative / dative / locative'",
  "path": [
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  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "tawa",
  "trace": ""
}

{
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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'perfective causative / applicative'",
  "path": [
    "tawa"
  ],
  "section": "Indonesian",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "tawa",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'accusative / dative / locative'",
  "path": [
    "tawa"
  ],
  "section": "Indonesian",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "tawa",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'perfective causative / applicative'",
  "path": [
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  "title": "tawa",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Indonesian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (58c391d and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.