warung

English

Alternative forms

• waroeng, warong

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay warung.

Noun

warung (plural warungs)

1. (Malaysia, Indonesia) A type of small family-owned business — often a casual, usually outdoor restaurant (in both countries) or convenience store (in Indonesia).
   • 1995 June 9, “Fly menace hits village stalls and homes”, in New Straits Times, page 6:

     Daud Yusof who runs one of the four warungs in the kampung said his business has been affectred because of the flies and claimed his earnings from selling nasi berlauk has dropped by 40 percent.

   • 2007, Mohamad Tajuddin Haji Mohamad Rasdi, Housing Crisis: Back to a Humanistic Agenda, Penerbit Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, →ISBN, page 63:

     Walking allows us to know precisely what kind and where to put convenient and comfort shelters like public toilets, benchs, kiosks, warungs and wakafs.

   • 2009 March 22, John Bowe, “How Green Is My Bali”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And of Mozaic Restaurant, an absolutely trumped-up Wine Spectator/Grandes Tables du Monde affair where tabs can run up to $100 or more that served food far less interesting and tasty than the $1.50 plates of nasi campur at the local restaurants called warungs.

Anagrams

• Rungwa

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay warung from Javanese ꦮꦫꦸꦁ (warung, “small shop, food stall”), from Old Javanese warung, waruṅ (“temporary lodging-place”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwaruŋ/ [ˈwa.rʊŋ]
• Rhymes: -aruŋ
• Syllabification: wa‧rung

Noun

warung (first-person possessive warungku, second-person possessive warungmu, third-person possessive warungnya)

1. warung

   Synonyms: kedai, lepau

   Warung tersebut menjual barang-barang konsumsi sehari - hari. ― The shop sell daily needs.

Alternative forms

• waroeng

Hyponyms

• warung hidup
• warung internet
• warung kagetan
• warung kopi
• warung remang-remang
• warung sekadup
• warung tegal
• warung telekomunikasi

 

Further reading

• “warung” 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.

Javanese

Romanization

warung

1. Romanization of ꦮꦫꦸꦁ

Malay

Etymology

From Javanese warung (ꦮꦫꦸꦁ, “small shop, food stall”), from Old Javanese warung, waruṅ (“temporary lodging-place”). Doublet of barung.

Noun

warung (Jawi spelling واروڠ, plural warung-warung, informal 1st possessive warungku, 2nd possessive warungmu, 3rd possessive warungnya)

1. warung

   Synonyms: kedai, lepau

Hyponyms

• warung hidup
• warung internet
• warung kagetan
• warung kopi
• warung remang-remang
• warung sekadup
• warung siber
• warung tegal
• warung telekomunikasi

 

Descendants

• → English: warung
• → Min Nan: 亞朗／亚朗 (a-lóng), 阿朗 (a-lóng)
• Indonesian: warung
  • → Tetum: warung

References

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “وارڠ warong”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 677
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “warong”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 647

Further reading

• “warung” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.