See also: Rawa, rawá, and Rawą

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay rawa, from Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rawaq (swamp; morass). Cognate with Javanese ꦫꦮ (rawa) and Tagalog lawa (lake).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈra.wa/, [ˈra.wa]
  • Hyphenation: ra‧wa
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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rawa (plural rawa-rawa, first-person possessive rawaku, second-person possessive rawamu, third-person possessive rawanya)

  1. marsh, swamp

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Javanese

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Etymology

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From Old Javanese rawa.

Noun

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rawa

  1. swamp

Kavalan

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Noun

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rawa

  1. cloth

Makasar

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Adverb

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rawa (Lontara spelling ᨑᨓ)

  1. below
    Antonym: rate

Malay

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Etymology

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From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rawaq (swamp; morass). Cognate with Javanese ꦫꦮ (rawa) and Tagalog lawa (lake).

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Noun

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rawa (Jawi spelling راوا, plural rawa-rawa, informal 1st possessive rawaku, 2nd possessive rawamu, 3rd possessive rawanya)

  1. swamp; marsh; fen

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Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *lawa₁ (compare with Hawaiian lawa (abundance, plenty)).[1][2]

Adjective

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rawa

  1. many, numerous

Adverb

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rawa

  1. very, really, too

Noun

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rawa

  1. goods, property
  2. wealth

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 404-5
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lawa.1a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

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  • rawa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Old Javanese

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Noun

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rawa

  1. swamp

West Makian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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rawa

  1. a wave

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics