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timawà. “freeman”. Sa sinaunang lipunang Tagalog at Bisaya, ang timawà o timágwa ay tao na kabílang sa uring malaya o tao na nahango mula sa pagkaalipin. In pre-Hispanic times, a timawà referred to a free person who had higher status than alipin (slaves).
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In archaic and modern poetic Tagalog, timawa eventually came to mean "free" or "tranquil", synonymous to malayà and tiwasay respectively; while as a verb it means to "set someone free [from bondage]".
3 cze 2018 · San Buenaventura defines timawa as “without servitude (esclavonia), neither rich nor poor,” and manga timawa as “the free, the common people after the magnates,” and illustrates with the example, “titimawain kita” (I’ll set thee free). Blancas de San Jose is even more illuminating:
Definition for the Tagalog word timawa: tim a wà in ancient tagalog and visayan society, a person belonging to the free class or a person who was liberated from slavery; freeman; freeborn; liberated
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The timawa were the feudal warrior class of the ancient Visayan societies of the Philippines. They were regarded as higher than the uripon (commoners, serfs, and slaves) but below the tumao (royal nobility) in the Visayan social hierarchy.
