wara-wara

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Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wá.ɽá.wá.ɽá/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key):

Ideophone

wara-wara

  1. spaced apart, irregularly placed

Indonesian

Etymology

Reduplication of wara, from Javanese ꦮꦫꦮꦫ (wara-wara, public announcement, proclamation), from Old Javanese warah-warah (communication, information, report, instruction, teaching).

Pronunciation

Noun

wara-wara (first-person possessive wara-waraku, second-person possessive wara-waramu, third-person possessive wara-waranya)

  1. (obsolete) announcement
    Synonyms: pengumuman, pemberitahuan

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