Java

See also: java, javā, Jáva, jäva, and Javą

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa), possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/, enPR: jäʹ-və

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvə
• Homophone: java

Proper noun

Java

1. An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
2. (computer languages) An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
3. (computer languages, proscribed) JavaScript (by confusion with Java).
   • 1996 October 6, Timothy Litwiller, “HOW TO MAKE A JAVA ALERT POP UP ON LOAD”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
   • 1996 December 10, Cédric Bouckaert, “onBlur event handler with input fields”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):

     In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a value and then a java... get the picture ?

   • 1997 January 7, Kenneth Roddy, “Java Alert Messages When Netscape Home Page Loads”, in comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows (Usenet):
   • 1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):

     I created an alert window using java script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens.

   • 2003 April 8, mpaulopes, “Passing values to a Java popup windows”, in macromedia.coldfusion.cfml_general_discussion (Usenet):

Hyponyms

• (computer language): Java EE, Java ME, Java SE

Meronyms

island

• Banten
• Central Java
• East Java
• Jakarta
• West Java
• Yogyakarta

Holonyms

• (island): Greater Sunda Islands

Derived terms

• Blue Java
• Java black rot
• Java canvas
• Java cat
• Java mouse-deer
• Javanese
• Java pepper
• Java sparrow

computer language

• AspectJ
• Hyper/J
• Javadoc
• JavaFX
• JavaScript

Translations

island of Indonesia

Acehnese: Jawa Afrikaans: Java Amharic: ጃዋ (ǧawa) Arabic: جَاوَة f (jāwa) Hijazi Arabic: جاوة f (jāwa) Armenian: Ճավա (Čava) Azerbaijani: Yava Balinese: Jawa Basque: Java Belarusian: Ява (Java) Bengali: জাভা (bn) (jabha) Buginese: ᨍᨓ (Jawa) Bulgarian: Я́ва f (Jáva) Burmese: ယဝဒီပ (ya.wa.dipa.), ဂျားဗား (gya:ba:) Catalan: Java Cebuano: Java Chinese: Cantonese: 爪哇 (zaau2 waa1) Mandarin: 爪哇(島) / 爪哇(岛) (zh) (Zhǎowā (dǎo) or Zhuǎwā (dǎo)) Czech: Jáva (cs) f Danish: Java Dutch: Java (nl) n Esperanto: Javo (eo) Estonian: Jaava Farefare: Iava, Yava, Zava Finnish: Jaava (fi) French: Java (fr) f Galician: Xava (gl) f Georgian: იავა (iava) German: Java (de) Gorontalo: Jawa Greek: Ιάβα (el) (Iáva) Gujarati: જાવા (jāvā) Hebrew: ג׳אווה Hindi: जावा (hi) m (jāvā), यवद्वीप (hi) m (yavadvīp) Hungarian: Jáva (hu) Icelandic: Java Indonesian: Jawa (id), pulau Jawa (island) Interlingua: Java Irish: Iáva f Italian: Giava Japanese: ジャワ (Jawa), ジャワ島 (Jawa-tō) Javanese: Jawa, pulo Jawa (Java Island) Kannada: ಜಾವಾ (jāvā) Kazakh: Ява (Äva) Khmer: ជ្វា (km) (cvie) Korean: 자와 (Jawa) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Java (ku) f Kyrgyz: Ява (Yava) Latvian: Java Lithuanian: Java Macedonian: Јава f (Java) Madurese: Jhâbâ Malagasy: Java (mg) Malay: Jawa Malayalam: ജാവ (ml) (jāva) Marathi: जावा (jāvā) Minangkabau: Jawa Mongolian: Жава (Žava) Nepali: जावा (jāwā) Odia: ଜାଭା (jābhā) Persian: جاوه (fa) (jâve) Polish: Jawa (pl) f Portuguese: Java (pt) f Punjabi: ਜਾਵਾ (jāvā) Romanian: Java Russian: Я́ва (ru) f (Jáva) Sanskrit: यव (sa) m (yava), यवद्वीप (sa) m (yavadvīpa), यव द्वीप (yava dvīpa) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Јава f Roman: Java (sh) f Sinhalese: ජාවා (si) (jāwā) Slovak: Jáva Slovene: Java Spanish: Java (es) Sundanese: Jawa Tagalog: Haba Tajik: Ҷава (Java) Tamil: ஜாவா (ta) (jāvā), இயவதீவு (iyavatīvu) Telugu: జావా (te) (jāvā), యవద్వీపము (yavadvīpamu) Thai: ชวา (th) (chá-waa) Tibetan: ཇ་ཝ (ja wa) Toba Batak: Jawa Turkish: Java (tr), Cava Ukrainian: Ява (Java) Urdu: جاوا (jāvā) Uzbek: Java Volapük: Yafeän (vo)

programming language

Arabic: جَافَا (ar) f (jāfā), جَافَا (ar) f (javā), Java f Hijazi Arabic: جافا f (jāfa, jāva) Belarusian: Джава f (Džava), Ява f (Java), Java f (Džáva, Jáva) Bulgarian: Джа́ва f (Džáva), Java f (Džáva, Jáva) Chinese: Mandarin: 爪哇 (zh) (Zhǎowā or Zhuǎwā), Java (zh) Czech: Java (cs) f Danish: java n, Java n Dutch: Java (nl) n Finnish: Java (fi) French: Java (fr) m Georgian: ჯავა (ǯava) German: Java (de) n Hebrew: ג׳אווה Hindi: जावा (hi) (jāvā) Hungarian: Java (hu) Italian: Java (it) m Japanese: ジャバ (jaba), ジャヴァ (java) Korean: 자바 (ko) (Jaba) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Java (ku) f Macedonian: Џава f (Džava), Јава f (Java), Java f (Džáva, Jáva) Marathi: जावा f (jāvā) Persian: جاوا (fa) (jâvâ) Polish: Java (pl) Portuguese: Java (pt) m Russian: Джа́ва f (Džáva), Я́ва (ru) f (Jáva) (colloquial), Жа́ба (ru) f (Žába, literally “toad”) (slang) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Џава f, Јава f Roman: Džáva f, Java (sh) f Swedish: Java (sv) Thai: จาวา (jaa-wâa) Turkish: Java (tr) Ukrainian: Джа́ва f (Džáva), Я́ва (Jáva), Java f (Džáva, Jáva)

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Noun

Java (plural Javas)

1. A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.

Further reading

• Java (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Java on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Proper noun

Java f

1. Java (an island in Indonesia)

Derived terms

• javanès

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

The neighbourhood is named after the Indonesian island.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaː.vaː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ja‧va

Proper noun

Java n

1. Java (island of Indonesia)
2. a neighbourhood of Almelo, Overijssel, Netherlands

Derived terms

• Javaan
• Javazee

Related terms

• Javaans

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.va/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Java f

1. Java (Island)

   L’île de Java. ― Java island.

Proper noun

Java m

1. Java (programming language)

Derived terms

• javanais
• Javanais

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Java n (proper noun, genitive Javas or (optionally with an article) Java)

1. Java (an island in Indonesia, the world's most populous island)

Related terms

• Javaner
• Javanerin
• Javanisch
• javanisch

Proper noun

Java n (proper noun, strong, genitive Javas)

1. Java (programming language)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Java

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Java, from Javanese ꦗꦮ (jawa), possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʐa.va/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ava
• Syllabification: Ja‧va

Proper noun

Java f

1. Java (programming language)

Declension

	singular
nominative	Java
genitive	Javy
dative	Javie
accusative	Javę
instrumental	Javą
locative	Javie
vocative	Javo

Declension of Java

Further reading

• Java in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒa.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒa.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒa.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒa.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒa.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒa.bɐ/ [ˈʒa.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: Ja‧va

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Java f

1. Java (an island of Indonesia)

Related terms

• javanês, jau

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English Java.

Proper noun

Java m

1. (computing) Java (programming language)

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Java

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxaba/ [ˈxa.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: Ja‧va

Proper noun

Java f

1. Java (an island of Indonesia)

Derived terms

• rinoceronte de Java
• té de Java
• tigre de Java

Descendants

• → Tagalog: Haba

Proper noun

Java m

1. Java (programming language)

Derived terms

• javanés

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

Java

Wikipedia ^sv

Proper noun

Java n (genitive Javas)

1. Java (an island in Indonesia)

Related terms

• javakaffe
• javanes
• javanesisk
• javanesiska
• javansk
• javanska

See also

• java

Further reading

• Java in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

Anagrams

• vaja