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tawas

tawas is the plural 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.

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Phrases with tawas

Questions about tawas

What is tawas the plural of?
Tawas is the plural of tawa.

Words near tawas in the dictionary

  1. tawapou
  2. tawara
  3. tawari
  4. tawaris
  5. tawaroa
  6. tawas
  7. Tawas City
  8. Tawasa
  9. tawashih
  10. Tawason
  11. Tawau

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tawas (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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