rawa

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See also: Rawa, rawá, and Rawą

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay rawa, from Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rawaq (“swamp; morass”). Cognate with Javanese ꦫꦮ (rawa) and Tagalog lawa (“lake”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.wa/,
  • Hyphenation: ra‧wa
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Noun

rawa (plural rawa-rawa)

  1. marsh, swamp

Further reading

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese rawa.

Noun

rawa

  1. swamp

Kavalan

Noun

rawa

  1. cloth

Makasar

Pronunciation

Adverb

rawa (Lontara spelling ᨑᨓ)

  1. below
    Antonym: rate

Malay

Etymology

From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rawaq (“swamp; morass”). Cognate with Javanese ꦫꦮ (rawa) and Tagalog lawa (“lake”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rawa (Jawi spelling راوا, plural rawa-rawa)

  1. swamp; marsh; fen

Further reading

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lawa₁ (compare with Hawaiian lawa (“abundance, plenty”)).

Adjective

rawa

  1. many, numerous

Adverb

rawa

  1. very, really, too

Noun

rawa

  1. goods, property
  2. wealth

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 404-5
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lawa.1a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • “rawa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Old Javanese

Noun

rawa

  1. swamp

West Makian

Pronunciation

Noun

rawa

  1. a wave

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
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