The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Value ñawa

Language:
Malay
Parameter:
life; soul (in the Moslem sense); life or soul as a term of endearment; life in its association with the breath, and in the narrow sense of not being dead; soul in the sense that it can exist apart from the body [53c10a609e231396adcb6aeb7228d1a3]
References
Wilkinson 1959