aywan

Crimean Tatar

Alternative forms

• aywan (Romanian spelling)
• ayvan (literary)

Noun

aywan

1. animal

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• aeuan, æuan, ayauan, ayavan, ayeuan, ayevan, auan, ayuan, euan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• ayawan, ayewan, aewan — obsolete
• ay-awan, awan — dialectal, Southern Tagalog
• ewan — colloquial

Etymology

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 (cf. Pangasinan awey). See also ayaw. Doublet of iwan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔajˈwan/ [ʔaɪ̯ˈwan̪], (colloquial) /ˈʔewan/ [ˈʔɛː.wɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ay‧wan

Interjection

aywán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔ᜏᜈ᜔)

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

   Synonyms: hindi ko alam, malay, (Mindoro) ilam

2. whatever

Derived terms

• aywan ko
• aywan ko sa iyo

Adjective

aywán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔ᜏᜈ᜔)

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

   Synonym: di-malaman

Noun

aywán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔ᜏᜈ᜔) (colloquial)

1. 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. 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”)

Derived terms

• parang aywan

Verb

aywán (complete inaywan, progressive inaaywan, contemplative aaywan, Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔ᜏᜈ᜔)

1. (obsolete) alternative form of iwan

   Huwag mo kaming aywan nang di kami matalo nang tukso.

   Don't abandon us so we can't be won over by temptation.

Further reading

• “aywan”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “aywan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎ (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• Zorc, David Paul (1979–1983), Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1, page 30
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*away₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• 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
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎ (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
  • page 446: “Noſe) Ayavan (pc) L. negando ſauer lo”
  • page 446: “Noſe) Ayevan (pc) lo que te diçes”
  • page 446: “Noſe) Avan (pc) T. eſo que ſea”
  • page 507: “Queſe yo) Ayavan (pc) [o no lo ſe]”