praśasti

See also: prasasti

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रशस्ति (praśasti, “eulogistic inscription”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pra.sas.ti/
• Rhymes: -ti
• Hyphenation: pra‧śas‧ti

Noun

praśasti

1. charter, edict, inscription.

Derived terms

• makapraśasti
• pinraśastyan

 

• liṅgapraśasti
• rājapraśasti
• supraśasti
• tāmrapraśasti

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦥꦿꦱꦱ꧀ꦠꦶ (prasasti, “ancient inscription”)
  • → Indonesian: prasasti (“stele”)

Further reading

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