aywan

• aywan (Romanian spelling)
• ayvan (literary form)

aywan

1. animal

• ayauan, ayavan, ayeuan, ayevan, auan, ayuan – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
• ayawan, ayewan, aewan, awan – obsolete
• ewan – colloquial

From a syncopic form of ayawan, from Proto-Central-Philippine *áyaw (“to leave (behind)”) + -an, with semantic shift originally meaning “it leaves (me)” according to Zorc (1983). Blust & Trussel also posit Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *away, with metathesis (c.f. Pangasinan awey). See also ayaw and iwan.

• Hyphenation: ay‧wan
• IPA^(key): /ʔajˈwan/, [ʔaɪ̯ˈwan]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔewan/, [ˈʔe.wɐn] (colloquial)

aywán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔ᜏᜈ᜔)

1. I don't know!; I forgot!

   Synonym: malay

2. whatever

• aywan ko

aywán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔ᜏᜈ᜔)

1. ignorant; not known (only used with indirect pronouns or with kay or ng)

   Synonym: di-malaman

aywán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔ᜏᜈ᜔)

1. (colloquial) something or someone which cannot even be understood, described, or explained

   Kausapin mo na nga yang aywan na iyon.

   Please talk right now with that person I can't even describe

   Itong mabigat na aywan, pano ko dadalhin diyan?

   This heavy thing I can't even explain, how am I bringing it there?

2. (colloquial) idiot; moron

   Alam mo, parang aywan na naman si Jejomar.

   You know, Jejomar is acting like an idiot.

   (literally, “Jejomar is like something I can't understand”)

• parang aywan

• “aywan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Zorc, David Paul (1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1‎, page 30
• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *away₃
• Constantino Lendoyro (1909) The Tagalog Language: A Comprehensive Grammatical Treatise Adapted to Self-instruction and Particularly Designed for Use of Those Engaged in Government Service, Or in Business Or Trade in the Philippines‎, J. Fajardo
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 446: “Noſe) Ayavan (pc) L. negando ſauer lo”
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 446: “Noſe) Ayevan (pc) lo que te diçes”
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 446: “Noſe) Avan (pc) T. eſo que ſea”
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 507: “Queſe yo) Ayavan (pc) [o no lo ſe]”