purwa
Balinese
Indonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Javanese ꦥꦸꦂꦮ (purwa, “ancient, beginning”), from Old Javanese pūrwa (“beginning, front, eastern”), from Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva). Doublet of purba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpʊrwa]
- Hyphenation: pur‧wa
Noun
purwa (first-person possessive purwaku, second-person possessive purwamu, third-person possessive purwanya)
- a type of wayang
Related terms
Further reading
- “purwa” 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.
Javanese
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