tawas adjective English. Characteristic of a person who buys goods and before long sells them again; doesn't keep anything; leaves no inheritance for his children. Example sentence: Subanen. Mauma lai ig dani'a kiin, melaun da sia ki malap mu gimu, laak dagid, peksaluy mu da pelum? Naa, kiin lai, sa' ma'niin, tawasa? English. What's wrong with you, that you have acquired a great deal, and yet you have sold it in turn? Now then, if that's the way it is, wouldn't you say that you hold things loosely?