Crossword-Solution: JAWI 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Among the "Malays and other natives of the Archipelago" are included, Achinese, Boyanese, Bugis, Dyaks, Jawi-Pekans, and Manilamen.

The cow, called sapi (in another dialect sampi) and jawi, is obviously a stranger to the country, and does not appear to be yet naturalized.

This is the jawi-jawi and ulang-ulang of the Malays, the banyan tree of the continent, the Grossularia domestica of Rumphius, and the Ficus indica or Ficus racemosa of Linnaeus.

However this be, the jawi-jawi, growing on buildings without earth or water, and deriving from the genial atmosphere its principle of nourishment, proves in its increasing growth highly destructive to the fabric where it is harboured; for the fibrous roots, which are at first extremely fine, penetrate common cements, and, overcoming as their size enlarges the most powerful resistance, split, with the force of the mechanic wedge, the most substantial brickwork.

Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap, xxxix.] From this subject it is natural to proceed to another disputed etymology, namely, the origin of the word _Jawi_, which is often used by the Malays for the word _Malayu_ in speaking of their language and written character, _bahasa jawi_ meaning Malay language, and _surat jawi_ a document written in Malay.