parwa
Balinese edit
Romanization edit
parwa
- Romanization of ᬧᬃᬯ
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Old Javanese parwa (“part (book) of the Mahābhārata epic”, literally “half”), from Sanskrit पर्व (parva), पर्वन् (parvan, “division, section”). Doublet of paruh.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
parwa (plural parwa-parwa, first-person possessive parwaku, second-person possessive parwamu, third-person possessive parwanya)
- part (book) of the Mahābhārata epic
Further reading edit
- “parwa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit पर्व (parva), पर्वन् (parvan, “division, section”).
Noun edit
parwa
- half
- part (book) of the Mahābhārata epic
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Javanese: ꦥꦫꦺꦴ (paro)
- → Indonesian: paro
- → Balinese: ᬧᬭᭀ (paro, “half”), ᬧᬃᬯ (parwa, “part of the Mahābhārata”)
- → Indonesian: parwa (learned)
- → Malay: paruh (“part”)
- Indonesian: paruh (“part”)
Further reading edit
- "parwa" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.