wara-wara
Hausa
Pronunciation
Ideophone
wara-wara
- spaced apart, irregularly placed
Indonesian
Etymology
Reduplication of wara, from Javanese ꦮꦫꦮꦫ (wara-wara, “public announcement, proclamation”), from Old Javanese warah-warah (“communication, information, report, instruction, teaching”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈwara ˈwara]
Noun
wara-wara (plural wara-wara)
- (obsolete) announcement
- Synonyms: pengumuman, pemberitahuan
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “wara-wara”, 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
Javanese
Romanization
wara-wara
- romanization of ꦮꦫꦮꦫ