Java

Name

1. An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
2. An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
3. (proscribed) JavaScript (by confusion with Java).

Noun

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese 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.

Synonyms

Djawa

Translations

Java

Java

Java

Java

Giava

Java

Jawa

Java

Java

Ιάβα

Java

جاوة

Java

Java

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