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Javanese
Etymology
Compound of ꦧꦲꦸ (bahu, “many, much, frequent”) + ꦮꦂꦤ (warna, “kind, sort”) (compare to Old Javanese bahuwarṇa (“many-coloured”) and Sanskrit बहु (bahu, “many”) + वर्ण (varṇa, “form, variety, type”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.ʔu.war.nɔ/
- Rhymes: -nɔ
- Hyphenation: ba‧u‧war‧na
Noun
ꦧꦲꦸꦮꦂꦤ (bauwarna)
- encyclopedia
2000, Edwin Wieringa, “Ethnoknowledge and the Sea of Progress: Padmasusastra's Javanese Encyclopaedia”, in Anthropos, volume 95, number 1, →ISSN, page 218:The first Javanese encyclopaedia in the modern Western sense of the word seems to be Padmasusastra's "Layang Bauwarna," subtitled "Javanese encyclopaedia."
Descendants
Further reading
- The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “bauwarna”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN