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}
],
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"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "kaw",
"3": "gaway",
"t": "work, task, occupation; work, product; feast, celebration; use, purpose"
},
"expansion": "Old Javanese gaway (“work, task, occupation; work, product; feast, celebration; use, purpose”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*gaway",
"t": "religious feast; festivity"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gaway (“religious feast; festivity”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "jv",
"2": "ꦒꦮꦺ",
"t": "work, use"
},
"expansion": "Javanese ꦒꦮꦺ (gawé, “work, use”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "iba",
"2": "gawa"
},
"expansion": "Iban gawa",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "gaway",
"t": "witchcraft"
},
"expansion": "Tagalog gaway (“witchcraft”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gadget"
},
"expansion": "“gadget”",
"name": "m-g"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "en",
"3": "gadget",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "semantic loan from English gadget",
"name": "semantic loan"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "iba",
"2": "gawai"
},
"expansion": "Iban gawai",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Javanese gaway (“work, task, occupation; work, product; feast, celebration; use, purpose”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gaway (“religious feast; festivity”). Compare with Javanese ꦒꦮꦺ (gawé, “work, use”), Iban gawa plus Tagalog gaway (“witchcraft”) and gawa (“work”).\n* Sense “gadget” is a semantic loan from English gadget via Indonesian.\n* Sense of celebration influenced by dialect contact with Iban gawai in Borneo.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ݢاواي",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
]
},
{
"form": "gawai-gawai",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "gawaiku",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"informal",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "gawaimu",
"tags": [
"possessive",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "gawainya",
"tags": [
"possessive",
"third-person"
]
}
],
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},
"expansion": "gawai (Jawi spelling ݢاواي, plural gawai-gawai, informal 1st possessive gawaiku, 2nd possessive gawaimu, 3rd possessive gawainya)",
"name": "ms-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ga‧wai"
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"work, job, task"
],
"id": "en-gawai-ms-noun-wU8Vhehw",
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"work",
"work#English"
],
[
"job",
"job#English"
],
[
"task",
"task#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) work, job, task"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kerja"
},
{
"word": "pekerjaan"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Riau Malay",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"gadget, tool, equipment."
],
"id": "en-gawai-ms-noun-AqyzAH-N",
"links": [
[
"gadget",
"gadget#English"
],
[
"tool",
"tool#English"
],
[
"equipment",
"equipment#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Riau) gadget, tool, equipment."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "alat"
},
{
"word": "peranti"
},
{
"word": "perkakas"
}
],
"tags": [
"Riau"
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Sarawak Malay",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "11 11 78",
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"name": "Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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{
"_dis": "18 15 67",
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"name": "Malay terms with redundant script codes",
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],
"glosses": [
"celebration, particularly of the Iban harvest festival."
],
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"celebration",
"celebration#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Sarawak) celebration, particularly of the Iban harvest festival."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈɡawai̯]"
}
],
"word": "gawai"
}
{
"categories": [
"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay lemmas",
"Malay nouns",
"Malay terms derived from Old Javanese",
"Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
"Malay terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Malay terms with redundant script codes"
],
"derived": [
{
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}
],
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"1": "ms",
"2": "kaw",
"3": "gaway",
"t": "work, task, occupation; work, product; feast, celebration; use, purpose"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*gaway",
"t": "religious feast; festivity"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "jv",
"2": "ꦒꦮꦺ",
"t": "work, use"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "iba",
"2": "gawa"
},
"expansion": "Iban gawa",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "gaway",
"t": "witchcraft"
},
"expansion": "Tagalog gaway (“witchcraft”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gadget"
},
"expansion": "“gadget”",
"name": "m-g"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "en",
"3": "gadget",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "semantic loan from English gadget",
"name": "semantic loan"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "iba",
"2": "gawai"
},
"expansion": "Iban gawai",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Javanese gaway (“work, task, occupation; work, product; feast, celebration; use, purpose”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gaway (“religious feast; festivity”). Compare with Javanese ꦒꦮꦺ (gawé, “work, use”), Iban gawa plus Tagalog gaway (“witchcraft”) and gawa (“work”).\n* Sense “gadget” is a semantic loan from English gadget via Indonesian.\n* Sense of celebration influenced by dialect contact with Iban gawai in Borneo.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ݢاواي",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
]
},
{
"form": "gawai-gawai",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "gawaiku",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"informal",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "gawaimu",
"tags": [
"possessive",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "gawainya",
"tags": [
"possessive",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"j": "ݢاواي"
},
"expansion": "gawai (Jawi spelling ݢاواي, plural gawai-gawai, informal 1st possessive gawaiku, 2nd possessive gawaimu, 3rd possessive gawainya)",
"name": "ms-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ga‧wai"
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Malay terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"work, job, task"
],
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"work",
"work#English"
],
[
"job",
"job#English"
],
[
"task",
"task#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) work, job, task"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kerja"
},
{
"word": "pekerjaan"
}
],
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"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Riau Malay"
],
"glosses": [
"gadget, tool, equipment."
],
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"gadget",
"gadget#English"
],
[
"tool",
"tool#English"
],
[
"equipment",
"equipment#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Riau) gadget, tool, equipment."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "alat"
},
{
"word": "peranti"
},
{
"word": "perkakas"
}
],
"tags": [
"Riau"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Sarawak Malay"
],
"glosses": [
"celebration, particularly of the Iban harvest festival."
],
"links": [
[
"celebration",
"celebration#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Sarawak) celebration, particularly of the Iban harvest festival."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈɡawai̯]"
}
],
"word": "gawai"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Sarawak",
"path": [
"gawai"
],
"section": "Malay",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "gawai",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Sarawak",
"path": [
"gawai"
],
"section": "Malay",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "gawai",
"trace": ""
}
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