kakawin

kakawin (plural kakawins or kakawin)

1. A long narrative poem composed in Old Javanese, with rhythms and meters derived from Sanskrit literature.

Borrowed from Old Javanese kakawin.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka.win/
• Rhymes: -awin
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka‧win

kakawin (Balinese script ᬓᬓᬯᬶᬦ᭄)

1. kakawin

Reanalyzed as kawi +‎ ke- -an, from Old Javanese kakawin, from Sanskrit कवि (kavi, “poet”).

• IPA^(key): [kaˈka.wɪn]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka‧win

kakawin (plural kakawin-kakawin)

1. (literature) kakawin

• kekawin

• “kakawin” 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.

kakawin

1. romanization of ꦏꦏꦮꦶꦤ꧀

Affixed kawi +‎ ka- -(a)n.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka.win/
• Rhymes: -win
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka‧win

kakawin

1. poem

• Javanese: ꦏꦏꦮꦶꦤ꧀ (kakawin)
  • → Indonesian: kakawin
• → Balinese: ᬓᬓᬯᬶᬦ᭄ (kakawin)

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