sīma

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sima"

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit सीमा (sīmā, “limit, bounds, frontier”).

Noun

sīma

1. freehold of a tenure or estate in land.
2. short for watu sīma (“border stone”).

Derived terms

• asīma
• kasīman
• panīma
• sumīma

 

• sima brata
• watu sīma

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦱꦶꦩꦃ, ꦱꦺꦩꦃ (simah, sémah, “household, husband”)
• → Balinese: ᬲᬶᬫ (sima, “border, cloistered area, village”)
• → Indonesian: sima (“free tax area”) (learned)

Further reading

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