jero

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English zero.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʑero/

Numeral

jero (Bengali script জেরো)

  1. zero

References

Balinese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Javanese jro (“interior; inner part; depth”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rɟuh, *ɟruh, *ɟruuʔ (“deep”).

Noun

jero (Balinese script ᬚᭂᬭᭀ)

  1. house

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: jero

Further reading

  • “jero” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Balinese jero, from Old Javanese jro (“interior; inner part; depth”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rɟuh, *ɟruh, *ɟruuʔ (“deep”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˈro/ [d͡ʒəˈro]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: je‧ro

Noun

jêro (plural jero-jero)

  1. the house of a ksatriya or wésya

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

jero

  1. romanization of ꦗꦼꦫꦺꦴ

Sundanese

Etymology

From Old Sundanese jero, jro, from Old Javanese jro (“interior; inner part; depth”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˈro/

Adjective

jero (Sundanese script ᮏᮨᮛᮧ)

  1. deep (of water)
    Antonym: déét
    sumur jero ― a deep well.
  2. profound
    Élmu agamana geus jero ― Their religious knowledge is already profound.
Sundanese register set
lemes lebet
lemes ka sorangan {{{les}}}
lemes ka batur {{{leb}}}
loma jero
cohag {{{co}}}

Preposition

jero (Sundanese script ᮏᮨᮛᮧ)

  1. inside; within
    di jero imah ― inside the house

Derived terms

Further reading

Swahili

Etymology

Derived from Mitsubishi Pajero.[1]

Noun

jero class ? (plural [please provide])

  1. (Tanzania, slang) five hundred shilling

References

  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

Verb

jero

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of èser

Yoruba

Alternative forms

  • jééró

Etymology

From Hausa gērō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒé.ɾó/

Noun

jéró

  1. millet, sorghum
    Synonym: ọkà bàbà
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