جاوی
Persian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy). Compare modern جاوهای (jâve'i, “Javanese”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɑː.ˈwiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɒː.víː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɔ.ví]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | jāwī |
Dari reading? | jāwī |
Iranian reading? | jâvi |
Tajik reading? | jovi |
Adjective
editجاوی • (jâvi)
- Jawi (relating to the Arabic script used for Malay and some other Austronesian languages)
- (archaic) Indonesian, from Island Southeast Asia; Javanese or Malay
- 1519, Cartas orientais 33, Lisbon, Portugal: Torre do Tombo archive:
- اهل پرتوگالیان زبان جاوی نمیدانند و قاعده قانون نمیدانند.
- ahl-i purtūgāliyān zabān-i jāwī namēdānand u qā'ida-yi qānūn namēdānand.
- The Portuguese people do not know the Malay language, and they do not know the regulations of the law.
Further reading
edit- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “جاوی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim