nyawa

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Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *ñawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nihawa, from Proto-Austronesian *NiSawa. Compare Siraya xinawa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: nya‧wa

Noun

nyawa

  1. life
    Nyawa kitai enda panjai ― Our lives is not long
  2. mouth
    Nyawa iya besai ― His mouth is big
  3. voice
    Nyawa iya inggar ― His voice is loud
  4. value (of money)
    Nyawa duit Ringgit ― Ringgit's value

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Malay nyawa, from Proto-Malayic *ñawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nihawa, from Proto-Austronesian *NiSawa. Compare Siraya xinawa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: nya‧wa

Noun

nyawa (plural nyawa-nyawa, first-person possessive nyawaku, second-person possessive nyawamu, third-person possessive nyawanya)

  1. life
    Synonyms: hayat, hidup, kehidupan
  2. soul, spirit
    Synonyms: arwah, atma, hayat, jiwa, psike, roh, semangat, spirit

Affixed terms

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

nyawa

  1. Romanization of ꦚꦮ.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *ñawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nihawa, from Proto-Austronesian *NiSawa (compare Siraya xinawa).

Pronunciation

Noun

nyawa (Jawi spelling ڽاوا, plural nyawa-nyawa, informal 1st possessive nyawaku, 2nd possessive nyawamu, 3rd possessive nyawanya)

  1. life
  2. soul
    Jika seseorang itu mati, nyawanya sudah tiada.
    If a person is dead, his soul has left.
  3. (obsolete, dialectal) breath

Usage notes

Life or soul as a term of endearment; life in its association with the breath, and in the narrow sense of not being dead; soul in the sense that it can exist apart from the body.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

Descendants

  • Indonesian: nyawa

References

Tabaru

Etymology

From Malay nyawa.

Pronunciation

Noun

nyawa

  1. a person

References

  • Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Tausug

Noun

nyawa

  1. soul, spirit

Ternate

Etymology

From Classical Malay ڽاوا (nyawa).

Pronunciation

Noun

nyawa

  1. the soul

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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