Timawa

Okay, so timawa is a word from the Philippines that means someone who is free or independent, kind of like a person who doesn't have a boss or a ruler telling them what to do all the time.

Think about it like this: imagine you're playing a game with your friends and there's one person who gets to be the boss and tell everyone else what to do. But then there's another person who doesn't have a boss and gets to choose what they do on their own. That person is kind of like a timawa because they have their own freedom and independence.

In the olden times in the Philippines, there were people who were considered timawa because they were not slaves or under the control of a powerful ruler. They had their own land and could run their own farms, and they didn't have to pay taxes to a ruler.

So to summarize, timawa means someone who is free and independent, and in the Philippines, it used to refer to people who weren't controlled by a ruler or in slavery.