Tawa-tawa
from jawa
Verified
Standard
noun
sastra
Reduplication
From jawa
Definition
a component of the joget bumbung gamelan ensemble in the slendro scale
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese, referring to a part of a gamelan set
Semantic Category
Words that only or primarily exist in reduplicated form (e.g., gara-gara).
Reduplication