kawit

• Hyphenation: ka‧wit
• IPA^(key): /ˈkawit/, [ˈka.wit]

káwit

1. hook

• cavit, cauit — obsolete

Compare kaw-it.

• Hyphenation: ka‧wit
• IPA^(key): /ˈkawit/, [ˈka.wɪt̪]

kawit

1. container for tapping tuba, a bamboo culm internode with one end cut open

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kawit.

kawít

1. hook

kawit

1. hook

• cavit, cauit — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

• IPA^(key): /ˈkawit/, [ˈka.wɪt]
• Hyphenation: ka‧wit

From Proto-Austronesian *kawit (“hook”). Compare Malay kait. Doublet of kabit.

kawit (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒᜆ᜔)

1. hook; grapnel

   Synonyms: kalawit, gantso, sabitan

2. fastener; hasp (as on a necklace, door, window, etc.)
3. pole with a hook at the end (for picking fruits, coconuts, etc.)

   Synonyms: pangawit, pangkawit

4. hook attached at the end (for picking fruits, coconuts, etc.)

   Synonym: kalawit

5. act of pulling, getting, or picking with a pole with a hook at the end

   Synonyms: pagkawit, pagkalawit

• ngawit — common

kawit (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒᜆ᜔)

1. (obsolete) numbing or weakening due to long use in holding or supporting (of one's muscles, hands, feet, etc.)

• This word is still used today is the form ngawit as well as in its compound forms.

• “kawit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

kawit

1. hook