[
US
/ˌdʒɑvəˈniz/
]
NOUN
- a native or inhabitant of Java
- the Indonesian language spoken on Java
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language
Javanese temples
Javanese dialects
How To Use Javanese In A Sentence
- Choose bright, solid colors or exotic prints, like Hawaiian botanicals or Javanese batiks.
- Grotesque; spined and tusked, spiked and antlered, wenned and breasted; as chimerically angled, cusped and cornute as though they were the superangled, supercornute gods of the cusped and angled gods of the Javanese, they strove against the sledge-headed and smiting, the multiarmed and blasting square towers. The Metal Monster
- The Javanese system comprises thousands of Islamic boarding schools that have been set up to teach the core texts of Islam, along with critiques and commentaries on those texts.
- As many of them can no longer speak the high form of Javanese, these young people have greater constraints in appreciating the traditional Javanese stage show.
- After dinner, at dusk, as Mr Jukes was strolling round the house smoking a cigar, a man with a long spear came up to him, and began to turn him back with an earnest speech, of which the only word he understood was _machan_; but it was an important one, and the point of the whole oration, for it is the Javanese for tiger. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
- Javanese dialects
- But regardless, circa 75\% of West Malaysian Austronesians are migrants from the Island of Java (Batavia), thus should be called Javanese instead of 'malay'. Shanghai fish
- The fatalistic quality of Javanese horoscopy is readily apparent in four different interpretations for Selasa Pon, which I have freely translated below.
- Suriname Hindustani (a variant of Bhoqpuri), Javanese The 1994 CIA World Factbook
- Having 40 homestays, the village offers the beautiful landscape of a typical Javanese kampong along with ancient rituals, exotic food and daily agricultural activities.