kawi
See also: Kawi
Barngarla
Noun
kawi
- Obsolete spelling of gabi
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.wi/
Noun
kawi m (uncountable)
- Old Javanese (language)
- Synonym: vieux javanais
Further reading
- “kawi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkawi]
- Hyphenation: ka‧wi
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Javanese ꦏꦮꦶ (kawi), from Old Javanese kawi (“poet”), from Sanskrit कवि (kavi).
Noun
kawi (first-person possessive kawiku, second-person possessive kawimu, third-person possessive kawinya)
- Old Javanese:
- The oldest attested form of Javanese language spoken up to the thirteenth century.
- The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia (chiefly, in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts).
- (Java) poet, author.
- Synonyms: pengarang, pujangga
Related terms
- kakawin
- makakawin
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from Arabic قَوِي (qawī, “strong”).
Adjective
kawi
- strong.
- Synonyms: kuat, kukuh, sakti
Etymology 3
Learned borrowing from Buginese ᨀᨓᨗ (kawi).
Verb
kawi
- (Bugis) traditional Buginese tie or binding technique.
Further reading
- “kawi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Karao
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, from Proto-Austronesian *kami.
Pronoun
kawi
- we; us (exclusive of the person spoken to)
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- caui, cavy – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ka‧wi
- IPA(key): /kaˈwiʔ/, [kɐˈwiʔ]
Noun
kawî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒ)
- (obsolete) revealing of an accomplice more than what is necessary
Derived terms
- kawiin
- kumawi
- magkawi
- makawi
- mangkawi
Etymology 2
Possibly from Javanese ꦏꦮꦶ (kawi, “poet”), from Old Javanese kawi (“poet”), from Sanskrit कवि (kavi, “poet”). Compare Indonesian kawi.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ka‧wi
- IPA(key): /ˈkawiʔ/, [ˈka.wɪʔ]
Noun
kawì (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒ)
- (linguistics, obsolete) jargon (for two people especially when they do not want to be understood by others)
- Synonyms: balbal, islang, salitang malabo, takitaki, tigbuhol
- Kawian mo siyang pakiusapan
- Talk to him using jargons
Usage notes
- Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835) gave several examples of kawi in usage, such as gonco for kugon, sapu for pusa, soa for aso, bigtu for tubig, saang drengpacotaba for ang sa padreng tabako, golin for Linggo, drope for Pedro, and onng̃aylis na for ngayon nalis (past tense of malis, archaic alternative form of umalis).
Derived terms
- ikawi
- kawian
- kawiin
- magkawi
Further reading
- “kawi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835), Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish & Tagalog), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
- Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 375: “Ierigonça) Cavy (pp) deſtos es de palabras bueltas”
Unami
Verb
kawi (third plural indicative kawi) (animate intransitive)
- (animate, intransitive) to sleep
References
- Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “kawi”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project