kawi

kawi

1. Obsolete spelling of gabi

• IPA^(key): /ka.wi/

kawi m (uncountable)

1. Old Javanese (language)

   Synonym: vieux javanais

• “kawi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkawi]
• Hyphenation: ka‧wi

Learned borrowing from Javanese ꦏꦮꦶ (kawi), from Old Javanese kawi (“poet”), from Sanskrit कवि (kavi).

kawi (first-person possessive kawiku, second-person possessive kawimu, third-person possessive kawinya)

1. Old Javanese:
   1. The oldest attested form of Javanese language spoken up to the thirteenth century.
   2. The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia (chiefly, in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts).
2. (Java) poet, author.

   Synonyms: pengarang, pujangga

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَوِي‎ (qawī, “strong”).

kawi

1. strong.

   Synonyms: kuat, kukuh, sakti

Learned borrowing from Buginese ᨀᨓᨗ (kawi).

kawi

1. (Bugis) traditional Buginese tie or binding technique.

• “kawi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, from Proto-Austronesian *kami.

kawi

1. we; us (exclusive of the person spoken to)

• caui, cavy – obsolete, Abecedario orthography

• Hyphenation: ka‧wi
• IPA^(key): /kaˈwiʔ/, [kɐˈwiʔ]

kawî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒ)

1. (obsolete) revealing of an accomplice more than what is necessary

Possibly from Javanese ꦏꦮꦶ (kawi, “poet”), from Old Javanese kawi (“poet”), from Sanskrit कवि (kavi, “poet”). Compare Indonesian kawi.

• Hyphenation: ka‧wi
• IPA^(key): /ˈkawiʔ/, [ˈka.wɪʔ]

kawì (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜏᜒ)

1. (linguistics, obsolete) jargon (for two people especially when they do not want to be understood by others)

   Synonyms: balbal, islang, salitang malabo, takitaki, tigbuhol

   Kawian mo siyang pakiusapan

   Talk to him using jargons

• Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835) gave several examples of kawi in usage, such as gonco for kugon, sapu for pusa, soa for aso, bigtu for tubig, saang drengpacotaba for ang sa padreng tabako, golin for Linggo, drope for Pedro, and onng̃aylis na for ngayon nalis (past tense of malis, archaic alternative form of umalis).

• “kawi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835), Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 375: “Ierigonça) Cavy (pp) deſtos es de palabras bueltas”

kawi (third plural indicative kawi) (animate intransitive)

1. (animate, intransitive) to sleep

• Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “kawi”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project