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Old Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit वाहन (vāhana, “vehicle”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wa.ha.na/
- Rhymes: -na
- Hyphenation: wa‧ha‧na
Noun
wāhana
- vehicle, conveyance
- carriage
- chariot
- wagon
- horse
- Synonyms: ajaran, ajar-ajaran, aśwa, ghoṭaka, haya, hayah, jaran, kuda, tuṅgaṅan, turaga, turaṅga, turaṅgama, uṇḍakan, wāhana, wāji
- elephant
- Synonyms: aliman, asti, dipak, dwipa, dwipak, dwipāṅga, dwipendra, dwirada, dwiradarāja, dwirĕge, gaja, gajah, haliman, hasti, ibha, kuñjara, liman, mantĕṅga, mātaṅga, matĕṅga, nāga, pataṅgi, sāmaja, tuṅgaṅan, wāhana, wāraṇa
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- "wāhana" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.