wastra
Balinese
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦱ꧀ꦠꦿ (wastra, “clothing, garment”) and Balinese ᬯᬲ᭄ᬢ᭄ᬭ (wastra, “clothes, clothing, cloth”), from Old Javanese wastra (“garment, clothes”), from Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra, “clothing, garment”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *wástram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wástram, from Proto-Indo-European *wéstrom, *wes- (“to wear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈwas.tra]
- Hyphenation: was‧tra
Noun
wastra (plural wastra-wastra, first-person possessive wastraku, second-person possessive wastramu, third-person possessive wastranya)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “wastra” 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
Old Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra, “clothing, garment”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *wástram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wástram, from Proto-Indo-European *wéstrom, *wes- (“to wear”).
Derived terms
- awastra
- makawastra
- mawastra
Descendants
Further reading
- "wastra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
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