ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀

Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Javanese gamelan, gamel (“to strike, hit”) +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡa.məl.an/
Rhymes: -an
Hyphenation: ga‧mel‧an

Noun

ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀ (gamelan) (ngoko)

gamelan (genre of music)
Synonym: (krama) ꦒꦁꦱ (gangsa)

Descendants

→ Arabic: غَامِيلَان (ḡāmīlān)
→ English: gamelan
→ Irish: gamelan
→ Hindi: गमेलन (gamelan)
→ Indonesian: gamelan
→ Japanese: ガムラン (gamuran)
→ Malay: gamelan
→ Russian: гамела́н (gamelán)
→ Thai: กาเมลัน (gaa-mee-lan)

Further reading

The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “gamelan”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.