wuku

Borrowed from Old Javanese wuku (“a period of seven days”, literally “section (of bamboo, etc) between the joints; grain, seed”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukuh. Doublet of ᬩᬸᬓᬸ (buku). Cognate to Indonesian buku, Javanese ꦮꦸꦏꦸ (wuku).

wuku (Balinese script ᬯᬸᬓᬸ)

1. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of days in Balinese calendar.

• → Indonesian: wuku

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

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦸꦏꦸ (wuku) and Balinese ᬯᬸᬓᬸ (wuku), from Old Javanese wuku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukuh. Doublet of buku.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwuku/ [ˈwu.ku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification: wu‧ku

wuku (plural wuku-wuku)

1. (Java, Bali) week in traditional calendar
2. (Java) cotton seed

• “wuku” 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.

wuku

1. romanization of ꦮꦸꦏꦸ

wuku

1. energy; power

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukuh.

wuku

1. section (of bamboo, etc), between the joints

   Synonym: ros

2. grain, seed
3. week: a period of seven days

• > Javanese: ꦮꦸꦏꦸ (wuku) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: wuku
• → Balinese: wuku
  • → Indonesian: wuku

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

wuku

1. water

• Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004, →ISBN, edited by Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch