awatāra
Appearance
Old Javanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root तरति (√tṝ, “to cross”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]awatāra
Verb
[edit]awatāra
- to appear
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "awatāra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.