windu

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay windu, from Javanese ꦮꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦸ (windu, “a period of eight (Javanese) years”), from Old Javanese windu (“drop; moon; zero; ten, a period of ten years”), from Sanskrit विन्दु (vindu), a variant of बिन्दु (bindu, “drop, point”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈwind̪u]
  • Hyphenation: win‧du

Noun

windu (plural windu-windu, first-person possessive winduku, second-person possessive windumu, third-person possessive windunya)

  1. eight years units of time.

Derived terms

  • berwindu-windu
  • winduan

Further reading

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