dalawa

• alua, dalaua, daloua, dalua, dauha, loua — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• alwa, daluwa, dawha, luwa — obsolete
• dalwa — uncommon

From epenthesis of earlier dalwa, from earlier *darua < *dadua, from Proto-Central Philippine *da-duha (with irregular loss of *h), from Proto-Philippine *da-duha, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *da-duha, from Proto-Austronesian *da-duSa. Compare Aklanon daywa and Malay dua.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /dalaˈwa/ [d̪ɐ.lɐˈwa]

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: da‧la‧wa

dalawá (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜏ)

1. two

   Synonym: dos

• To describe the quantity of something, the number is placed before the noun and affixed with -ng enclitic suffix when the word ends with a vowel, and a separate preposition, na, for a consonant.

  Isang saging, dalawang pinya

  One banana, two pineapples

  Apat na mansanas, anim na mangga

  Four apples, six mangos

• “dalawa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*da-duSa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI