daw

See also: daw., Daw, DAW, daW, and d'aw

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Homophones: DAW, d'aw; door (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English dawe, from Old English *dāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *dāhwā. Cognate with German Dahle, Dohle, dialectal Tach.

Noun

daw (plural daws)

1. A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
   • a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Mr Killigrew:

     The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws
     The whole assembly of his fellow daws.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     […] But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
     For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

2. (obsolete) An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:

     Therefore to make complaynt
     Of such mysadvysed
     Parsons and dysgysed,
     Thys boke we have devysed, […]
     No good preest to offend,
     But suche dawes to amend, […]

   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     A kind of choughs, Or thievish daws, sir, that have pick'd my purse Of eight score and ten pounds within these five weeks

   • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003:

     ‘Of course I do, you great daw.’ She kissed his beautiful mouth and moved his fringe out of his eyes.

Synonyms

• jackdaw (Eurasian jackdaw, European jackdaw, western jackdaw)

Derived terms

• dawish

Translations

Coloeus monedula — see jackdaw

Etymology 2

From Middle English dawen, from Old English dagian (“to dawn”), from Proto-West Germanic *dagēn, from Proto-Germanic *dagāną (“to become day, dawn”), from *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). More at day, dawn.

Verb

daw (third-person singular simple present daws, present participle dawing, simple past and past participle dawed)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) To dawn.
2. (obsolete) To wake (someone) up.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 10, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:

     ANd whanne the Quene herd them saye soo
     she felle to the erthe in a dede swoune
     and thenne syr Bors took her vp
     and dawed her
     & whanne she was awaked she kneled afore the thre knyghtes
     and helde vp bothe their handes and besoughte them to seke hym
     And when the queen heard them say so she fell to the earth in a dead swoon. And then Sir Bors took her up, and dawed her; and when she was awaked she kneeled afore the three knights, and held up both their hands, and besought them to seek him

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3. (obsolete) To daunt; to terrify.

Derived terms

• adaw
• bedaw

Translations

dawn — see dawn

Anagrams

• -wad, ADW, AWD, WAD, wad

Bikol Central

Particle

daw

1. marks a sentence as interrogative

   Igwa ka daw na kwarta?

   Do you have money?

Bolongan

Etymology

From a substrate language (compare Baram Kayan daw < Proto-Kayanic *daw and Eastern Penan daw < Proto-Kenyah *ədʰaw), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qajaw. False cognate of English day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaw/

Noun

daw

1. day

   Synonym: medaw

Further reading

• Adul, M. Asfandi (1985), “daw”, in Struktur Bahasa Bulungan‎, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa