awatāra
Old Javanese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root तरति (√tṝ, “to cross”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editawatāra
Verb
editawatāra
- to appear
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- "awatāra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.