wiku

wiku f (definite singular wiką̊)

1. Alternative spelling of wikå (“week”)

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦶꦏꦸ (wiku, “priest; monk, nun”), from Old Javanese wiku (“sage; priest; monk, nun”), from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biku and biksu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈwiku]
• Hyphenation: wi‧ku

wiku

1. (obsolete) monk.

• “wiku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

wiku

1. Romanization of ꦮꦶꦏꦸ

Borrowed from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biku.

• IPA^(key): /wi.ku/
• Rhymes: -ku
• Hyphenation: wi‧ku

wiku

1. holy man, sage
2. priest
3. monk, nun, ascetic, anchorite or anchoress, hermit

• biku

• > Javanese: ꦮꦶꦏꦸ (wiku) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: wiku
• → Balinese: ᬯᬶᬓᬸ (wiku)

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