Toa Payoh

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Names
English:	Toa Payoh
Chinese:	大巴窑
(Pinyin:	dàbāyáo)
Malay:	Toa Payoh
Tamil:	தோ பயோ

'Toa' in the Hokkien (Fujian) dialect of Chinese means 'big', but 'Payoh' –- and it's always spelt as a single word even though it consists of 2 syllables -– is a corruption of the Malay 'Paya', which means "swamp". Hence, Toa Payoh means "big swamp".