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Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦮꦸꦭ (kawula, “servant; subject; I, me”), from Old Javanese kawula (“servant, follower, subject”). Reconstructed as ke- + *wula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ka‧wu‧la
Noun
kawula (first-person possessive kawulaku, second-person possessive kawulamu, third-person possessive kawulanya)
- servant
- Synonyms: abdi, hamba
- slave
- Synonym: budak
Pronoun
kawula
- (archaic) I (me, my)
- Synonym: saya
Derived terms
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
kawula
- Romanization of ꦏꦮꦸꦭ
Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦮꦸꦭ (kawula), from Old Javanese kawula (“servant, follower, subject”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kawula
- (Javanese) slave
Pronoun
kawula
- (Javanese) I (me, my)
Synonyms
Further reading
Old Javanese
Etymology
Unknown, probably wula + ka-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.wu.la/
- Rhymes: -la
- Hyphenation: ka‧wu‧la
Noun
kawula
- servant, follower, subject
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- "kawula" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.