kuwu

See also: küwü

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦸꦮꦸ (kuwu, “village head, village messenger; to camp”), from Old Javanese kuwu (“dwelling, housing, quarter, lodging; encampment, tent; residence; administrative division under a kuwu, akuwu; leader of such administrative division”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”). Doublet of kubu.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kuwu (first-person possessive kuwuku, second-person possessive kuwumu, third-person possessive kuwunya)

1. (dialect) village head

   Synonyms: lurah, kepala desa

Further reading

• “kuwu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

kuwu

1. Romanization of ꦏꦸꦮꦸ

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kuwu

1. dwelling, housing, quarter, lodging
2. encampment, tent
3. residence
4. administrative division under a kuwu, akuwu
5. leader of such administrative division

Derived terms

• akukuwon
• akukuwu
• akuwu
• akuwu-kuwu
• akuwwan
• kinuwwan
• maṅuwu
• pakuwwan

 

• palih kuwu

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦏꦸꦮꦸ (kuwu, “village head; village messenger; to camp”)
  • → Indonesian: kuwu (“village head”)

Further reading

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