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tava

tava is the alternative form of tawa.

Meaning of tawa

Noun (1)

tawa (plural tawas)

  1. (South-Asia) A frying pan or griddle.
    • 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.2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 6

Noun (2)

tawa (plural tawas)

  1. Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.

See all 3 meanings of tawa

Proper noun capitalized: TAVA

TAVA

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Transgender American Veterans Association.

Forms of tava

pluraltavas

Questions about tava

What is tava the alternative form of?
Tava is the alternative form of tawa.
What part of speech is tava?
Tava is a proper noun.

Words near tava in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tava (page history and authors); TAVA (page history and authors); tawa (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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