sawah

Malay sawah

sawah (plural sawahs)

1. A rice paddy.

• awash

From Malay sawah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq (“irrigated ricefield”). Cognate of Javanese sawah, Madurese sabâ ,and Sundanese sawah.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsawah]
• Hyphenation: sa‧wah

sawah (plural sawah-sawah, first-person possessive sawahku, second-person possessive sawahmu, third-person possessive sawahnya)

1. rice field, paddy field, rice paddy.

• “sawah” 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.

sawah

1. Romanization of ꦱꦮꦃ

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq (“irrigated ricefield”). Cognate to Sundanese ᮞᮝᮂ (sawah), Indonesian sawah

• IPA^(key): /sawah/
• Rhymes: -awah, -wah, -ah

sawah (Jawi spelling ساوه, plural sawah-sawah, informal 1st possessive sawahku, 2nd possessive sawahmu, 3rd possessive sawahnya)

1. paddy (wet land where rice grows)

• sawah padi

• > Indonesian: sawah (inherited)

• nasi (“cooked rice”)
• beras (“uncooked rice”)
• padi (“unmilled rice”)

• “sawah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq.

• IPA^(key): /sa.wah/
• Rhymes: -wah
• Hyphenation: sa‧wah

sawah

1. field

• > Javanese: ꦱꦮꦃ (sawah) (inherited)

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

sawah

1. Romanization of ᮞᮝᮂ