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Javanese   /dʒˌɑvənˈiz/   Listen
Javanese

noun
1.
A native or inhabitant of Java.  Synonym: Javan.
2.
The Indonesian language spoken on Java.





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"Javanese" Quotes from Famous Books



... two days a year only. The writer who mentions the custom regards the blood shed on these occasions as a propitiatory sacrifice offered to spirits who control the showers; but perhaps, as in the Australian and Javanese ceremonies, it is an imitation of rain. The prophets of Baal, who sought to procure rain by cutting themselves with knives till the blood gushed out, may have acted on ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... through the Indian Archipelago, towards Australasia, we skirt the coast of Java. Every Javanese of rank has large packs of dogs with which he hunts the muntjak, the deer of that country. The dogs are led in strings by the attendants until they scent the prey: they are then unloosed, while the sportsmen follow, but ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt


Words linked to "Javanese" :   Bahasa Indonesia, java, Bahasa, Indonesian, Javan


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