جاوه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa), probably through an intermediate language.

Proper noun

جاوه • (cave or cava)

1. Java (island)

Descendants

• Turkish: Cava

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جاوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 640