wara-wara
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Hausa
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Ideophone
[edit]wara-wara
- spaced apart, irregularly placed
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of wara, from Javanese ꦮꦫꦮꦫ (wara-wara, “public announcement, proclamation”), from Old Javanese warah-warah (“communication, information, report, instruction, teaching”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wara-wara (first-person possessive wara-waraku, second-person possessive wara-waramu, third-person possessive wara-waranya)
- (obsolete) announcement
- Synonyms: pengumuman, pemberitahuan
Alternative forms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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.
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