wara-wara

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wá.ɽá.wá.ɽá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [wə́.ɽə́.wə́.ɽə́]

Ideophone

wara-wara

1. spaced apart, irregularly placed

Indonesian

Etymology

Reduplication of wara, from Javanese ꦮꦫꦮꦫ (wara-wara, “public announcement, proclamation”), from Old Javanese warah-warah (“communication, information, report, instruction, teaching”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwara ˈwara]

Noun

wara-wara (first-person possessive wara-waraku, second-person possessive wara-waramu, third-person possessive wara-waranya)

1. (obsolete) announcement

   Synonyms: pengumuman, pemberitahuan

Alternative forms

• wewara

Further reading

• “wara-wara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.