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Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦸꦮꦸ (kuwu, “village head, village messenger; to camp”), from Old Javanese kuwu (“dwelling, housing, quarter, lodging; encampment, tent; residence; administrative division under a kuwu, akuwu; leader of such administrative division”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”). Doublet of kubu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈku.wu/
- Rhymes: -wu
- Hyphenation: ku‧wu
Noun
kuwu (first-person possessive kuwuku, second-person possessive kuwumu, third-person possessive kuwunya)
- (dialect) village head
- Synonyms: lurah, kepala desa
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
kuwu
- Romanization of ꦏꦸꦮꦸ
Old Javanese
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.wu/
- Rhymes: -wu
- Hyphenation: ku‧wu
Noun
kuwu
- dwelling, housing, quarter, lodging
- encampment, tent
- residence
- administrative division under a kuwu, akuwu
- leader of such administrative division
Derived terms
Descendants
- Javanese: ꦏꦸꦮꦸ (kuwu, “village head; village messenger; to camp”)
- → Indonesian: kuwu (“village head”)
Further reading
- "kuwu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.