pawa' n English Area in the forest where there are no big trees (as if it had been used for a rice field at some point). Example sentence Tagbanwa Paribasay kurang i ipag'uma it mga taw it tagna', mga pawa' lamang i pagtulusun nga pag'umaan. English Because people in the past were lacking in field-making tools, they just looked for areas without big trees to make their fields in.