Etymology

fawad

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Today it means: To come. Full definition →

Jamaican Creole fahwud ← English forward
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The story

  1. English · derived fromforward
  2. Jamaican Creole · borrowed fromfahwud“to come”
  3. English todayfawad

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole fahwud (“to come”), farwud, faawud, itself a respelling of English forward.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.