parwa

Borrowed from Old Javanese parwa (“part (book) of the Mahābhārata epic”, literally “half”), from Sanskrit पर्व (parva), पर्वन् (parvan, “division, section”). Doublet of ᬧᬭᭀ (paro, “half”).

• IPA^(key): /parwə/

parwa (Balinese script ᬧᬃᬯ)

1. part (book) of the Mahābhārata epic

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

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese parwa (“part (book) of the Mahābhārata epic”, literally “half”), from Sanskrit पर्व (parva), पर्वन् (parvan, “division, section”). Doublet of paruh.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈparwa/ [ˈpar.wa]
• Rhymes: -arwa
• Syllabification: par‧wa

parwa (plural parwa-parwa)

1. part (book) of the Mahābhārata epic

• “parwa” 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.

Borrowed from Sanskrit पर्व (parva), पर्वन् (parvan, “division, section”).

parwa

1. half
2. part (book) of the Mahābhārata epic

• paro

• > Javanese: ꦥꦫꦺꦴ (paro) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: paro
• → Balinese: ᬧᬭᭀ (paro, “half”), ᬧᬃᬯ (parwa, “part of the Mahābhārata”)
• → Indonesian: parwa (learned)
• → Malay: paruh (“part”)
  • > Indonesian: paruh (“part”) (inherited)

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