waringi

Ternate

waringi

Etymology

Likely from Javanese ꦮꦫꦶꦔꦶꦤ꧀ (waringin), from Old Javanese wariṅin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wa.ˈɾi.ŋi]

Noun

waringi (Jawi واريڠي)

1. the weeping fig (Ficus benjamina)
2. the Malayan banyan (Ficus microcarpa)

Usage notes

Specifically, de Clercq gives Urostigma (presently reclassified as a subgenus of Ficus) as the definition, of which Ficus microcarpa is the only species present in the Moluccas. Hayami-Allen writes Ficus benjamina, which may be another sense of this word, or may be a misidentification of Ficus microcarpa.

Alternative forms

• waring (with vowel deletion)

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh