In a traditional Javanese burial, before the grave is filled in, someone close to the deceased will go down into it and shout into his ear the Muslim profession of faith. The message is "Don't forget. Especially not now."
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Javanese
Synonyms for "javanese" (4 found)
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Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
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64 translations across 27 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ճավայերեն name (language)
Catalan
2 entries- javanès name (language)
- javanès noun (person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 爪哇語 /爪哇语 name (language)
- 爪哇人 noun (person)
Czech
1 entries- javánština name (language)
Danish
4 entries- javanesisk name (language)
- javansk name (language)
- javaner noun (person)
- javaneser noun (person)
Dutch
3 entries- Javaans name (language)
- Javaan noun (person)
- Javaanse noun (person)
Finnish
3 entries- jaava name (language)
- jaavan kieli name (language)
- jaavalainen noun (person)
French
3 entries- javanais name (language)
- Javanais noun (person)
- Javanaise noun (person)
Galician
2 entries- xavanés name (language)
- xavanés noun (person)
Georgian
4 entries- იავის name (language)
- იავური name (language)
- იაველი noun (person)
- იავის მცხოვრები noun (person)
German
3 entries- Javanisch name (language)
- Javaner noun (person)
- Javanerin noun (person)
Hindi
1 entries- यवद्वीपी noun (person)
Hungarian
2 entries- jávai name (language)
- jávai noun (person)
Indonesian
3 entries- Jawa name (language)
- bahasa Jawa name (language)
- orang Jawa noun (person)
Irish
2 entries- Iáivis name (language)
- Iávach noun (person)
Italian
2 entries- giavanese name (language)
- giavanese noun (person)
Japanese
1 entries- ジャワ語 name (language)
Javanese
3 entries- basa Jawa name (language)
- tiyang Jawi noun (person)
- wong Jawa noun (person)
Khmer
2 entries- ជ្វា name (language)
- ជ្វា noun (person)
Malay
4 entries- Jawa name (language)
- bahasa Jawa name (language)
- Jawa noun (person)
- orang Jawa noun (person)
Marathi
1 entries- यवद्वीपी noun (person)
Polish
3 entries- (język) jawajski name (language)
- Jawajczyk noun (person)
- Jawajka noun (person)
Portuguese
4 entries- jau name (language)
- javanês name (language)
- jau noun (person)
- javanês noun (person)
Russian
3 entries- ява́нский name (language)
- ява́нец noun (person)
- ява́нка noun (person)
Spanish
2 entries- javanés name (language)
- javanés noun (person)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- Yampanesi noun (person)
Swedish
2 entries- javanesiska name (language)
- javanes noun (person)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Traditional Javanese villages partitioned their most essential resource into house land and rice land.
Source: tatoeba (2119620)
He speaks Indonesian and also speaks Cantonese, because he is Javanese from Nunukan Regency, North Kalimantan is close to the Malaysian border.
Source: tatoeba (11077629)
How do we write companion in Javanese?
Source: tatoeba (11285230)
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