Java

Clipping of English Javanese or French javanais.

Java

1. (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Javanese.

From Franco-Italian or Latin: Java

Java f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pompilidae – certain tarantula wasps.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Hymenoptera – order; Apocrita – suborder; Pompiloidea – superfamily; Pompilidae – family; Pepsinae – subfamily; Pepsini – tribe

• (genus): Java nigrita – type species; Java caroliwaterhousei – selected other species

• “Java”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Java (wasp) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pepsini on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Java (Pompilidae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/, enPR: jäʹ-və

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvə
• Homophone: java

Java

2. An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
4. (computer languages) An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
   • 2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 June 2022:

     The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking.

5. (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):

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

• (island): Greater Sunda Islands

Java (plural Javas)

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

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

Java f

1. Java (an island of Indonesia)

• javanès

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The neighbourhood is named after the Indonesian island.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaː.vaː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Ja‧va

Java n

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

• Javaan
• Javazee

• Javaans

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.va/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Java f

1. Java (Island)

   L'île de Java. ― Java island.

Java m

1. Java (programming language)

• javanais
• Javanais

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːvaː/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Ja‧va

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

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

• Javaner
• Javanerin
• Javanisch
• javanisch

Java n (proper noun, strong, genitive Javas)

1. Java (programming language)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʐa.va/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ava
• Syllabification: Ja‧va

Java f

1. Java (programming language)

• “Java”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

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

Java f

1. Java (an island of Indonesia)

• javanês, jau

Unadapted borrowing from English Java.

Java m

1. (computing) Java (programming language)

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

Java f

1. Java (an island of Indonesia)

• → Tagalog: Haba

Java m

1. Java (programming language)

Java n (genitive Javas)

1. Java (an island of Indonesia)

• java

• “Java”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• vaja