pūrwa

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pur.wa/
• Rhymes: -wa
• Hyphenation: pūr‧wa

Noun

pūrwa

1. beginning, front
2. east
3. first

Adjective

pūrwa

1. eastern
2. former, previous
3. prominent
4. before, formerly

Derived terms

• amūrwa
• amūrwakĕn
• amūrwani
• kapūrwa
• kapūrwan
• makapūrwa
• pinūrwa

 

• apūrwā
• purwācāra
• pūrwabhādrawada
• pūrwabrāhmaṇa
• pūrwacarita
• pūrwadeśa
• pūrwadiśa
• pūrwaduṣkṛti
• pūrwadyuṣkṛta
• pūrwadṛṣṭa
• pūrwaguru
• pūrwajanma
• pūrwaka
• pūrwakarma
• pūrwakarmaśānta
• pūrwakarmāparādha
• pūrwakathā
• pūrwakrama
• pūrwakāla
• pūrwalakṣaṇa
• pūrwamitra
• pūrwamukha
• pūrwaphalgunī
• pūrwaprastuti
• pūrwaprastāwa
• pūrwapuruṣa
• pūrwapūja
• pūrwarāja
• pūrwarĕṇa
• pūrwasamāropa
• pūrwasaṅketa
• pūrwasewa
• pūrwastha
• pūrwasthiti
• pūrwasthāna
• pūrwastuti
• pūrwasāgara
• pūrwatattwa
• pūrwatisti
• pūrwawaṅśa
• pūrwawera
• pūrwaweri
• pūrwābhyāsa
• pūrwābhāda
• pūrwāsāḍhā
• strīpūrwā

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦥꦸꦂꦮ (purwa), ꦥꦸꦂꦧ (purba)
  • → Indonesian: purwa, purwa-
• → Balinese: ᬧᬹᬃᬯ᭄ᬯ (purwa)

Further reading

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