wara-wara

Hausa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wá.ɽá.wá.ɽá/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [wə́.ɽə́.wə́.ɽə́]

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 (first-person possessive wara-waraku, second-person possessive wara-waramu, third-person possessive wara-waranya)

(obsolete) announcement
Synonyms: pengumuman, pemberitahuan

Alternative forms

wewara

Further reading

“wara-wara” 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.

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