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tav

tav is the alternative form of taw.

Meaning of taw

Noun (1)

taw

  1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

Noun (2)

taw (plural taws)

  1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
    • Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
  2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
  3. (square dancing) A dance partner.
    • Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.
  4. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

Noun (3)

taw (plural taws)

  1. The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.

See all 14 meanings of taw

Forms of tav

pluraltavs

Questions about tav

What is tav the alternative form of?
Tav is the alternative form of taw.

Words near tav in the dictionary

  1. tautozonality
  2. tauts
  3. tauyu bak
  4. Tauzin
  5. Tauzins
  6. tav
  7. tava
  8. tavaborole
  9. tavahi
  10. Tavakoli
  11. Tavakolis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tav (page history and authors); taw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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