jauhar
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
jauhar (uncountable)
- (historical) The mass suicide of Rajput women in order to escape defilement by foreign conquerors.
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Malay jauhar, from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar), from Classical Persian گوهر (gawhar).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
jauhar (plural jauhar-jauhar, first-person possessive jauharku, second-person possessive jauharmu, third-person possessive jauharnya)
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References[edit]
- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
Further reading[edit]
- “jauhar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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