ꦠꦸꦮ

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ꦠꦸꦮ, ꦠꦸꦲ
• Roman: tuwa, toeha (dated, literary), toewa (dated), tua (nonstandard), tuha (literary), tuo (nonstandard), tuwo (nonstandard)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Javanese tuha, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)tuqah.

Adjective

ꦠꦸꦮ (tuwa) (ngoko)

1. old

   Antonym: nom

2. (of fruit) ripe

   Synonyms: dalu, mateng

   Antonyms: mentah, nom

3. (of drink) boiling

   Synonym: umob

4. (of color) blackish

   Antonym: nom

5. (of roof) less slanting

   Antonym: nom

6. (of date) of second half of a month

   Antonym: nom

7. (of spiritual knowledge) of completeness

Synonyms

• ꦠꦸꦮꦺꦏ꧀ (tuwèk) (dialectal Mataraman)
• ꦱꦼꦥꦸꦃ (sepuh) (krama)

Derived terms

• ꦏꦩꦶꦠꦸꦮ (kamituwa)
• ꦩꦫꦠꦸꦮ (maratuwa)

 

Descendants

• → Peranakan Indonesian: toewa

References

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “ꦠꦸꦮ”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN