jawab

Borrowed from Hindustani جَوَاب (javāb) / जवाब (javāb), from Classical Persian جَوَاب (jawāb), from Arabic جَوَاب (jawāb).

jawab (plural jawabs)

1. (India, historical) An answer, especially a dismissal, or a woman's rejection of a marriage proposal.
2. (India) Anything erected or planted as a symmetrical double.
   • 2010, Kenneth Pletcher, The Geography of India: Sacred and Historic Places, page 96:

     Flanking the mausoleum […] are two symmetrically identical buildings — the mosque, which faces east, and its jawab, which faces west and provides aesthetic balance.

• jawaub

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “jawaub”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 456.

jawab

1. sexual intercourse
2. incest

From Malay jawab, from Arabic جَوَاب (jawāb, “answer, reply”). Mostly displaced native balas, sahut, and tanggap.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒawab/ [ˈd͡ʒa.wap̚]
• Rhymes: -awab
• Syllabification: ja‧wab

jawab (active menjawab, passive dijawab)

1. (transitive) to answer

jawab

1. (uncommon) synonym of jawaban (“answer”)

• “jawab”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
• “menjawab”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

jawab

1. romanization of ꦗꦮꦧ꧀

Borrowed from Arabic جَوَاب (jawāb). Mostly displaced native balas, sahut, and tanggap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒawab/ [ˈd͡ʒa.wap̚]

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• Rhymes: -awab, -wab, -ab
• Hyphenation: ja‧wab

jawab (Jawi spelling جواب, plural jawab-jawab or jawab²)

1. An answer or reply.

   Synonyms: jawapan, sahut

jawab (Jawi spelling جواب, active menjawab, third person passive dijawab)

1. To give an answer to a question; to answer.
2. To reply or respond to (something or someone).

   Synonyms: balas, sahut

• > Indonesian: jawab (inherited)

• "jawab" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017