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Is maw a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word maw is a Scrabble US word. The word maw is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is maw a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word maw is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

M3A1W4

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Yes. The word maw is a Words With Friends word. The word maw is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (1 found)

MAW,

2-letter words (3 found)

AM,AW,MA,

You can make 4 words from maw according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of maw

maw amw mwa wma awm wam

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Definitions and meaning of maw

maw

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɔː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɔ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /mɑ/
  • Homophones: MAW, more (non-rhotic accents)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː

Etymology 1

From Middle English mawe, maghe, maȝe, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”).

Noun

maw (plural maws)

  1. (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
  2. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.
  1. (slang, derogatory) The mouth.
    Synonyms: trap, yap
  2. Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
  3. Appetite; inclination.
  4. The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

By shortening of mother

Noun

maw (plural maws)

  1. (dialect, colloquial) Mother.

Etymology 3

See mew (“a gull”), Norwegian måke (“a gull”)

Noun

maw (plural maws)

  1. A gull.

See also

  • mee-maw

Anagrams

  • WMA, awm, mwa

Abinomn

Noun

maw

  1. butterfly

Cornish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæʊ/

Noun

maw m (plural mebyon)

  1. boy
    Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
    I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.

Synonyms

  • mab

Khasi

Alternative forms

  • máw

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *smaːw, from Proto-Austroasiatic *t2mɔʔ (“stone”). Cognate with Vietnamese đá, Mon တၟံ, Nyah Kur ฮมอ, Khmer ថ្ម (thmɑɑ), Eastern Bru tamaw, Bahnar tơmo, Parauk simaw.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maːu/

Noun

maw m

  1. rock, stone

Derived terms

References

  • Singh, U Nissor (1906) Khasi-English dictionary‎[2], Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, page 130. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Mapudungun

Noun

maw (Unified spelling)

  1. rain

Middle English

Noun

maw

  1. Alternative form of mawe (“stomach”)

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *ma?-/*miʔ- (to be wet) from Proto-Afroasiatic *maʔ-. Compare Egyptian mw, Aasax maʔa, also Dahalo maʔa; Hebrew מים (máyim),
Classical Syriac ܡܝܐ (mayyā) and Somali maanyo and Somali ma'wi.

Noun

maw m (plural mawooyin m)

  1. water container, water-jar

References

  • Puglielli, Annarita, Mansuur, Cabdalla Cumar (2012) “ma'wi”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaliga‎[3], Rome: RomaTrE-Press, →ISBN, page 613

Source: wiktionary.org