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tawa

tawa noun: a frying pan or griddle.

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.

Proper noun capitalized: Tawa

Tawa

  1. An outer suburb of Wellington, Wellington region, New Zealand.

tawa meaning in Gujarati

tawa in Gujarati

tawa, pan, griddle
તવો tavo

Forms of tawa

pluraltawas
alternative formtava

Origin of tawa

From Hindi तवा (tavā).

From Māori tawa.

Borrowed from Māori tawa; see English tawa (“tree”).

Questions about tawa

What does tawa mean?
Tawa means a frying pan or griddle.
What is tawa in Gujarati?
Tawa in Gujarati is તવો (tavo). See Tawa meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is tawa?
Tawa can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of tawa?
The plural of tawa is tawas.

Words near tawa in the dictionary

  1. Tavurvur
  2. Tavush
  3. tavy
  4. taw
  5. Taw-Sug
  6. tawa
  7. Tawaan
  8. tawaf
  9. tawafs
  10. Tawagan Sur
  11. tawaif

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tawa (page history and authors); Tawa (page history and authors); તવો (Gujarati) (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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