welas

Banjarese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Javanese ꦮꦼꦭꦱ꧀ (welas, “-teen, tens”), from Old Javanese wĕlas.

Numeral

welas

1. -teen (to form numbers 11 - 19, but not 18)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wəˈlas/, [wəˈlas]
• Rhymes: -las
• Hyphenation: wê‧las

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦼꦭꦱ꧀ (welas, “pity; sympathetic”), from Old Javanese wĕlas (“pity, compassion, sympathy”). Doublet of belas.

Noun

wêlas (plural welas-welas, first-person possessive welasku, second-person possessive welasmu, third-person possessive welasnya)

1. clemency, pity

Derived terms

• welas asih

 

Etymology 2

Unknown

Root

wêlas

1. addition

Derived terms

• welasan

 

Further reading

• “welas” 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.

Javanese

Romanization

welas

1. Romanization of ꦮꦼꦭꦱ꧀

Sundanese

Romanization

welas

1. Romanization of ᮝᮨᮜᮞ᮪