kuwu
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See also: küwü
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦸꦮꦸ (kuwu, “village head, village messenger; to camp”), from Old Javanese kuwu (“dwelling, housing, quarter, lodging; encampment, tent; residence; administrative division under a kuwu, akuwu; leader of such administrative division”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”). Doublet of kubu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kuwu (first-person possessive kuwuku, second-person possessive kuwumu, third-person possessive kuwunya)
- (dialect) village head
- Synonyms: lurah, kepala desa
Further reading[edit]
- “kuwu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
kuwu
- Romanization of ꦏꦸꦮꦸ
Old Javanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kuwu
- dwelling, housing, quarter, lodging
- encampment, tent
- residence
- administrative division under a kuwu, akuwu
- leader of such administrative division
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Javanese: ꦏꦸꦮꦸ (kuwu, “village head; village messenger; to camp”)
- → Indonesian: kuwu (“village head”)
Further reading[edit]
- "kuwu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Categories:
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Indonesian doublets
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/wu
- Rhymes:Indonesian/wu/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Requests for plural forms in Indonesian entries
- Indonesian dialectal terms
- Javanese non-lemma forms
- Javanese romanizations
- Old Javanese terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Old Javanese terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Old Javanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Javanese/wu
- Rhymes:Old Javanese/wu/2 syllables
- Old Javanese lemmas
- Old Javanese nouns