Definition of Sawah

1. a paddy-field [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawah

saw buck
saw fit
saw in
saw log
saw logs
saw off
saw palmetto
saw sam sai
saw set
saw sets
saw through
saw tooth
saw wood
sawah (current term)
sawahs
sawbellies
sawbelly
sawbench
sawbenches
sawbill
sawbills
sawblade
sawblades
sawbones
sawboneses
sawbuck
sawbucks
sawder

Literary usage of Sawah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1851)
"A woman of sawah acted the part of Potiphar's wife towards him. Having no other escape, ... sawah ..."

2. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1892)
"... for the war against the Khaqan of China, whose name was sawah Shah. ... to collect an army numerous as locusts, wherewith to march against sawah Shah. ..."

3. Simulation of Ecophysiological Processes of Growth in Several Annual Crops by F. W. T. Penning de Vries (1989)
"Thus, sawah covers every one-day period of the crop in many small steps. ... The integration period in sawah can be explicitly chosen (parameter DTFX), ..."

4. Management of Secondary and Logged-over Forests in Indonesia: Selected by Plinio Sist, C. Sabogal, Yvonne Byron (1999)
"In Jambi and West Kalimantan there is a clear preference of local farmers for perennial crops, compared to rice, upland (ladang) or irrigated (sawah), ..."

5. With the Dutch in the East: An Outline of the Military Operations in Lombock by Wouter Cool (1897)
"The wounded, 28 in number, were carried to the northern exit, and the open sawah was soon reached, notwithstanding the incessant fire; a halt was made and ..."

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