parwa

parwa

1. Romanization of ᬧᬃᬯ

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈparwa/
• Hyphenation: par‧wa
• Rhymes: -wa, -a

parwa (plural parwa-parwa, first-person possessive parwaku, second-person possessive parwamu, third-person possessive parwanya)

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.

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

parwa

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

• paro

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

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