awatāra

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root तरति (√tṝ, “to cross”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awa.ta.ra/

Noun

awatāra

1. embodiment, incarnation
2. appearance

Verb

awatāra

1. to appear

Descendants

• → Balinese: ᬅᬯᬢᬵᬭ (awatara)
  • → Indonesian: awatara

Further reading

• "awatāra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.