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jero

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Atong (India)

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Etymology

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From English zero.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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jero (Bengali script জেরো)

  1. zero

References

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Balinese ᬚᭂᬭᭀ (jero), from Old Javanese jro (interior; inner part; depth), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rɟuh, *ɟruh, *ɟruuʔ (deep). Compare to Javanese ꦗꦼꦫꦺꦴ (jero, inside), Semai jereeq (deep), Temiar jeruk, Khmer ជ្រៅ (crɨw, deep, profound).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒə.ˈro/
  • Rhymes: -ro, -o
  • Hyphenation: jê‧ro

Noun

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jêro (plural jero-jero)

  1. the house of a ksatriya or wésya

Further reading

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Javanese

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Romanization

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jero

  1. Romanization of ꦗꦼꦫꦺꦴ

Swahili

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Etymology

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Derived from Mitsubishi Pajero.[1]

Noun

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jero class ? (plural [please provide])

  1. (Tanzania, slang) five hundred shilling

References

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  1. ^ Reuster-Jahn, Uta, Kießling, Roland (2006) “Lugha ya mitaani in Tanzania - the poetics and sociology of a young urban style of speaking”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 13, →ISSN, page 39 of 1-196:jero refers to a ‘note of 500 TSh’ and is derived from a truncated version of the name of the car model Mitsubishi “Pajero”, motivated by the simultaneous appearance of both items in about 1997.

Venetan

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Verb

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jero

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of èser

Yoruba

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Hausa gērō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jéró

  1. millet, sorghum
    Synonym: ọkà bàbà