sawah

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English

Etymology

From Malay sawah.

Noun

sawah (plural sawahs)

  1. A rice paddy.

Anagrams

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Malay sawah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq (“irrigated ricefield”). Cognate of Javanese sawah, Madurese sabâ ,and Sundanese sawah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: sa‧wah

Noun

sawah (plural sawah-sawah, first-person possessive sawahku, second-person possessive sawahmu, third-person possessive sawahnya)

  1. rice field, paddy field, rice paddy.

Derived terms

References

Javanese

Romanization

sawah

  1. Romanization of ꦱꦮꦃ

Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq (“irrigated ricefield”). Cognate to Sundanese ᮞᮝᮂ (sawah), Indonesian sawah

Pronunciation

Noun

sawah (Jawi spelling ساوه, plural sawah-sawah, informal 1st possessive sawahku, 2nd possessive sawahmu, 3rd possessive sawahnya)

  1. paddy (wet land where rice grows)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • > Indonesian: sawah (inherited)

See also

  • nasi (“cooked rice”)
  • beras (“uncooked rice”)
  • padi (“unmilled rice”)

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.wah/
  • Rhymes: -wah
  • Hyphenation: sa‧wah

Noun

sawah

  1. field

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • "sawah" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Sundanese

Romanization

sawah

  1. Romanization of ᮞᮝᮂ
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