wiku

wiku f (definite singular wiką̊)

1. alternative spelling of wikå (“week”)

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦶꦏꦸ (wiku, “priest; monk, nun”), from Old Javanese wiku (“sage; priest; monk, nun”), from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biku and biksu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈwiku]
• Hyphenation: wi‧ku

wiku

1. (obsolete) monk

• “wiku”, 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

wiku

1. romanization of ꦮꦶꦏꦸ

Borrowed from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biku.

• IPA^(key): /wi.ku/
• Rhymes: -ku
• Hyphenation: wi‧ku

wiku

1. holy man, sage
2. priest
3. monk, nun, ascetic, anchorite or anchoress, hermit

• biku

• > Javanese: ꦮꦶꦏꦸ (wiku) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: wiku
• → Balinese: ᬯᬶᬓᬸ (wiku)

• "wiku" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

From wiki (“to dwell, to live at”) +‎ -w (third-persons suffix). Cognate with Munsee wíikuw (“he dwells”).

wiku

1. third-person singular of wiki

• wikëwam
• wikhao
• wikhe
• wikhèt
• wikhatuwàk

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