banaspati
Balinese
editRomanization
editbanaspati
- Romanization of ᬩᬦᬲ᭄ᬧᬢᬶ
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Javanese ꦧꦤꦱ꧀ꦥꦠꦶ (banaspati, “fire-demon”) (compare Balinese ᬩᬦᬲ᭄ᬧᬢᬶ (banaspati, “a lord of demon”)), from Old Javanese banaspati (“wood-devil; big tree”), from Sanskrit वनस्पति (vanaspati, “name of a gandharvī”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbanaspati (plural banaspati-banaspati, first-person possessive banaspatiku, second-person possessive banaspatimu, third-person possessive banaspatinya)
- (mythology) a kind of evil spirit with flame shapes like a fireball that often hovering in the night.
Further reading
edit- “banaspati” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
editRomanization
editbanaspati
- Romanization of ꦧꦤꦱ꧀ꦥꦠꦶ
Old Javanese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Sanskrit वनस्पति (vanaspati, “name of a gandharvī”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbanaspati
- big tree
- (mythology) wood-devil.
Descendants
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- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit
- Indonesian 4-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Mythology
- Javanese non-lemma forms
- Javanese romanizations
- Old Javanese terms borrowed from Sanskrit
- Old Javanese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Old Javanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Javanese lemmas
- Old Javanese nouns
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