waringin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦫꦶꦔꦶꦤ꧀ (waringin).

Noun

waringin (plural waringins)

  1. Synonym of weeping fig (“the tree Ficus benjamina”).
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 281:
      And they encamped under the tall Waringin-trees that border all the roads about Mataram, and with blazing fires frighted away the ghouls and evil spirits that nightly haunt the gloomy avenues.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦫꦶꦔꦶꦤ꧀ (waringin).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: wa‧ring‧in

Noun

waringin m (uncountable, no diminutive)

  1. weeping fig ("the tree Ficus benjamina")
    Synonym: treurvijg

Javanese

Romanization

waringin

  1. romanization of ꦮꦫꦶꦔꦶꦤ꧀
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