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Javanese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔ.pɔ/
- Rhymes: -pɔ
- Hyphenation: sa‧pa
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Javanese sapa (“to speak, to greet”).
Noun
ꦱꦥ (sapa)
- to greet
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Javanese sapa, syapa (“who (interrogative pronoun)”).
Pronoun
ꦱꦥ (sapa)
- (interrogative, ngoko) who: What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Inherited from Old Javanese śāpa (“curse, malediction, abuse, oath, imprecation”), from Sanskrit शाप (śāpa, “spell, ban, curse”).
Noun
ꦱꦥ (sapa)
- (literary) curse
Further reading
- The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011) “sapa”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN