ꦧꦲꦸꦮꦂꦤ

Javanese

Etymology

Compound of ꦧꦲꦸ (bahu, “many, much, frequent”) +‎ ꦮꦂꦤ (warna, “kind, sort”) (compare to Old Javanese bahuwarṇa (“many-coloured”) and Sanskrit बहु (bahu, “many”) +‎ वर्ण (varṇa, “form, variety, type”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʔu.war.nɔ/
• Rhymes: -nɔ
• Hyphenation: ba‧u‧war‧na

Noun

ꦧꦲꦸꦮꦂꦤ (bauwarna)

1. encyclopedia
   • 2000, Edwin Wieringa, “Ethnoknowledge and the Sea of Progress: Padmasusastra's Javanese Encyclopaedia”, in Anthropos, volume 95, number 1, →ISSN, page 218:

     The first Javanese encyclopaedia in the modern Western sense of the word seems to be Padmasusastra's "Layang Bauwarna," subtitled "Javanese encyclopaedia."

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bauwarna

Further reading

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011) “bauwarna”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN