jauhar
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English
Alternative forms
Noun
jauhar (uncountable)
- (historical) The mass suicide of Rajput women in order to escape defilement by foreign conquerors.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay jauhar, from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar), from Classical Persian گوهر (gawhar).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
jauhar (plural jauhar-jauhar, first-person possessive jauharku, second-person possessive jauharmu, third-person possessive jauharnya)
Synonyms
References
- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
Further reading
- “jauhar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.