sawah

From 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)

1. rice field, paddy field, rice paddy

   Synonym: huma

• “sawah”, 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

sawah

1. romanization of ꦱꦮꦃ

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

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

sawah (Jawi spelling ساوه, plural sawah-sawah or sawah²)

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 (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), 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.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabaq (“irrigated ricefield”). Akin to Javanese sawah.

sawah (Sundanese script ᮞᮝᮂ)

1. (agriculture) irrigated paddy field

• Coolsma, S (1913), Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij