sawah

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English

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Etymology

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From Malay sawah.

Noun

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sawah (plural sawahs)

  1. A rice paddy.

Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay sawah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq (irrigated ricefield). Cognate of Javanese sawah, Madurese sabâ ,and Sundanese sawah.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsawah]
  • Hyphenation: sa‧wah

Noun

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sawah (plural sawah-sawah, first-person possessive sawahku, second-person possessive sawahmu, third-person possessive sawahnya)

  1. rice field, paddy field, rice paddy.

Derived terms

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References

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Javanese

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Romanization

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sawah

  1. Romanization of ꦱꦮꦃ

Malay

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq (irrigated ricefield). Cognate to Sundanese ᮞᮝᮂ (sawah), Indonesian sawah

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sawah (Jawi spelling ساوه, plural sawah-sawah, informal 1st possessive sawahku, 2nd possessive sawahmu, 3rd possessive sawahnya)

  1. paddy (wet land where rice grows)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • > Indonesian: sawah (inherited)

See also

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  • nasi (cooked rice)
  • beras (uncooked rice)
  • padi (unmilled rice)

Further reading

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Old Javanese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sa.wah/
  • Rhymes: -wah
  • Hyphenation: sa‧wah

Noun

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sawah

  1. field

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • "sawah" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Sundanese

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Romanization

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sawah

  1. Romanization of ᮞᮝᮂ