Kawi

Kawi

See also: kawi

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit कवि (kavi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːwi/

Proper noun

Kawi

1. A literary and prose language based on Old Javanese with a large number of Sanskrit loanwords, and used on the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok; or the script used in writing this language.
   • 2012, Adrian Vickers, Bali: A Paradise Created (2nd ed.), Tuttle 2012, p. 118:

     The theory that Balinese religion was a branch of Indian Hinduism led the society to believe that the literature of ancient Bali should be in the classical language of India, but in fact the Kawi language has absolutely no grammatical connection to Sanskrit.

Translations

Ancient writing system

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Burmese: အက္ခရာကဝိ (akhka.raka.wi.) Chinese: Mandarin: 卡維文／卡维文 (kǎwéiwén) Finnish: kawi Georgian: please add this translation if you can Hindi: कावि लिपि f (kāvi lipi) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Khmer: អក្សរកវិ (ʼâksârôkvĭ) Lao: ອັກສອນກະວິ (ʼak sǭn ka wi) Russian: кави (ru) (kavi) Tagalog: Kawi (tl) Thai: อักษรกวิ

Anagrams

• kwai

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Sanskrit कवि (kavi).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Ka‧wi
• IPA^(key): /ˈkawi/, [ˈka.wɪ]

Proper noun

Kawi (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒ)

1. Old Javanese

References

• “Kawi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018