释义 |
Jawi|ˈdʒɑːwɪ| [Malay.] Formerly, the Malay vernacular; now, the Malay language written in Arabic script.
1808Asiatick Researches X. iii. 164 The Basa Jawi or written language of composition, is nearly the same in all [dialects]. 1812W. Marsden Gram. Malay Lang. p. xiv, Jāwī or bhā sa jāwī is..employed in writings to denote the vernacular language of the Malays, especially that of books, as distinguished from all foreign languages. 1920R. O. Winstedt Colloquial Malay (ed. 2) 138 The Malay word spelt in Arabic characters is a puzzle to be solved by the possession of a large vocabulary. And it is impossible to draw up a logical system of Jawi spelling. 1964M. Taib bin Osman in Wang Gungwu Malaysia iii. xv. 210 Traditional literature as known today is the literature written in the Perso-Arabic script known as Jawi. 1972Straits Times (Malaysian ed.) 24 Nov. 21/1 A tombstone found in the same area has inscriptions in Jawi, stating that it was erected in 1292. |