prabhā

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रभा (prabhā, “illumination”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pra.ba/
• Rhymes: -ba
• Hyphenation: pra‧bhā

Noun

prabhā

1. glow, light
2. splendour, radiance
3. item of adornment

Derived terms

• aprabhâtaṇḍiṅ
• maprabhā

 

• jwalitaprabhā
• lakṣmīprabhā
• mahoṣṇikaprabhā
• maṇiprabhā
• niṣprabhā
• rawiprabhā
• suprabhā
• sutīkṣṇaprabhā
• tīkṣṇaprabhā
• ujwalaprabhā
• śuklaprabhā

 

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦥꦿꦧ (praba) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: praba

Further reading

• "prabhā" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.