kawi

kawi

1. obsolete spelling of gabi

• IPA^(key): /ka.wi/

kawi m (uncountable)

1. Old Javanese (language)

   Synonym: vieux javanais

• “kawi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkawi]
• Hyphenation: ka‧wi

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦮꦶ (kawi), from Old Javanese kawi (“poet”), from Sanskrit कवि (kavi).

kawi (plural kawi-kawi)

1. [[]]Old Javanese:
   1. the oldest attested form of Javanese language spoken up to the thirteenth century
   2. the oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia (chiefly, in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts)
2. (Java) poet, author

   Synonyms: pengarang, pujangga

Borrowed from Arabic قَوِي (qawī, “strong”).

kawi (comparative lebih kawi, superlative paling kawi)

1. strong

   Synonyms: kuat, kukuh, sakti

Borrowed from Buginese ᨀᨓᨗ (kawi).

kawi

1. (Bugis) traditional Buginese tie or binding technique

• “kawi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kawi

1. romanization of ꦏꦮꦶ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, from Proto-Austronesian *kami.

kawi

1. we; us (exclusive of the person spoken to)

Borrowed from Sanskrit कवि (kavi, “poet”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.wi/
• Rhymes: -wi
• Hyphenation: ka‧wi

kawi

1. poet

• Javanese: ꦏꦮꦶ (kawi, “Old Javanese; poet”)
• → Balinese: ᬓᬯᬶ (kawi, “Old Javanese”)

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

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kawi class IX (plural kawi class X)

1. energy

• caui, cavy — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈwiʔ/ [kɐˈwɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧wi

kawî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒ) (obsolete)

1. revealing of an accomplice more than what is necessary

Possibly from Javanese ꦏꦮꦶ (kawi, “poet”), from Old Javanese kawi (“poet”), from Sanskrit कवि (kavi, “poet”). Compare Indonesian kawi.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkawiʔ/ [ˈkaː.wɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -awiʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧wi

kawì (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒ) (obsolete)

1. jargon (for two people especially when they do not want to be understood by others)

   Synonyms: balbal, islang, salitang malabo, takitaki, tigbuhol

   Kawian mo siyang pakiusapan.

   Talk to him using jargons.

• Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835) gave several examples of kawi in usage, such as gonco for kugon, sapu for pusa, soa for aso, bigtu for tubig, saang drengpacotaba for ang sa padreng tabako, golin for Linggo, drope for Pedro, and onng̃aylis na for ngay-on nalis (complete aspect of malis, archaic alternative form of umalis).

• “kawi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 375: “Ierigonça) Cavy (pp) deſtos es de palabras bueltas”

• iwak, ikaw, wika

kawi (third plural indicative kawiyòk, third singular present indicative absentative kawiyo, initial change kè-, reduplication këk-, initial change and reduplication kèhk-) (animate intransitive)

1. (animate, intransitive) to sleep

• kèhkawink
• kèhkawihink
• kawëhe
• kawënhe

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “kawi”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project