ꦩꦫ

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.rɔ/
• Rhymes: -rɔ
• Hyphenation: ma‧ra

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ꦩꦫ (mara)

1. first-person pronoun

Borrowed from Sanskrit मर (mara, “death, dying”).

ꦩꦫ (mara)

1. to die

Inherited from Old Javanese muhara (“river-mouth, estuary”). Doublet of ꦩꦸꦮꦫ (muwara).

ꦩꦫ (mara)

1. mouth: the end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water
2. estuary

Inherited from Old Javanese mara, umara (“to come, to approach, to draw near”).

ꦩꦫ (mara)

1. to approach

• → Malay: مارا (mara)
  • > Indonesian: mara (inherited)

• “mara” in Javanese-Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Jawa-Indonesia], Yogyakarta, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta Special [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta], 2023.