warung

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay warung.

Noun

warung (plural warungs)

  1. (Malaysia, Indonesia) A type of small family-owned business — often a casual, usually outdoor restaurant (in both countries) or convenience store (in Indonesia).
    • 1995 June 9, “Fly menace hits village stalls and homes”, in New Straits Times, page 6:
      Daud Yusof who runs one of the four warungs in the kampung said his business has been affectred because of the flies and claimed his earnings from selling nasi berlauk has dropped by 40 percent.
    • 2007, Mohamad Tajuddin Haji Mohamad Rasdi, Housing Crisis: Back to a Humanistic Agenda, Penerbit Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, →ISBN, page 63:
      Walking allows us to know precisely what kind and where to put convenient and comfort shelters like public toilets, benchs, kiosks, warungs and wakafs.
    • 2009 March 22, John Bowe, “How Green Is My Bali”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      And of Mozaic Restaurant, an absolutely trumped-up Wine Spectator/Grandes Tables du Monde affair where tabs can run up to $100 or more that served food far less interesting and tasty than the $1.50 plates of nasi campur at the local restaurants called warungs.

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Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Malay warung, from Javanese ꦮꦫꦸꦁ (warung, “small shop, food stall”), from Old Javanese waruṅ (“temporary lodging-place”), probably ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruuŋ (“unpartitioned building”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈwaruŋ/ [ˈwa.rʊŋ]
  • Rhymes: -aruŋ
  • Syllabification: wa‧rung

Noun

warung (plural warung-warung)

  1. warung (shop)
    Synonyms: kedai, lepau
    Warung tersebut menjual kebutuhan sehari-hari. ― The shop sell daily needs.

Hyponyms

Descendants

  • → Tetum: warung

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

warung

  1. romanization of ꦮꦫꦸꦁ

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦫꦸꦁ (warung, “small shop, food stall”), from Old Javanese warung, waruṅ (“temporary lodging-place”), probably ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruuŋ (“unpartitioned building”). Doublet of barung.

Pronunciation

  • (Baku) IPA(key): /ˈwaruŋ/ [ˈwa.ruŋ]
    • Rhymes: -aruŋ
  • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): /ˈwaroŋ/ [ˈwa.roŋ]
    • Rhymes: -aroŋ
  • Hyphenation: wa‧rung

Noun

warung (Jawi spelling واروڠ, plural warung-warung)

  1. warung[1][2]
    Synonyms: kedai, lepau

Hyponyms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “وارڠ warong”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 677
  2. ^ Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “warong”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 647
  3. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

Further reading

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