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lawa.

salad

4 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/la.wa/

  1. salad

  2. Buginese dish made from raw fish or banana blossoms, mixed with grated or fried coconut, spices, and vinegar

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Makasar and Buginese [Term?].

adj/la.wa/

  1. beautiful

Where this word comes from

inherited from Malay lawa (“beautiful”).

noun/la.wa/

  1. crossbar on boats and so on

    archaic

  2. barrier, obstacle

    archaic

  3. roadblock

    archaic
Where this word comes from

Unknown, inherited from Malay lawa (“board”), probably from Old Javanese lawa (“fragment, piece”), from Sanskrit लव (lava).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.