dawā

Old Javanese

Etymology

Unknown, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *wah ~ *lwah (“wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.wa/
• Rhymes: -wa
• Hyphenation: da‧wā

Noun

dawā

1. length

Alternative forms

• dawah

Derived terms

• adawā
• andadawa
• aṅdawākĕn
• dinawa
• kadadawa
• kadadawan
• kadawan

 

• mben dawa
• tali dawā
• tinali dawā
• wĕrö dawā

 

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦢꦮ (dawa) (inherited)

Further reading

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