Crossword-Solution: JAWA 4 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

When Kayans and Kenyahs who have been at feud desire to meet peaceably, it is necessary to go through a sort of sham fight, called JAWA, so that both parties can, as it were, blow off steam.

Some of our authors, by a curious mistake, have confounded Moslem Jawa (by the Egyptians pronounced Gawa), with "Goa," the Christian colony of the Portuguese.

The kasumba (simply) or kasumba jawa, as it is sometimes called, is the Carthamus tinctorius, of which the flowers are used to produce a saffron colour, as the name imports.

Just as from _Makah_, Meccah, is derived the word _Makk-i_, of or belonging to Meccah, so from _Jawa_, Java, we get _Jawi_, of or belonging to Java.

Without very strict regard to ethnical divergencies, they described all the brown races of the eastern islands under the comprehensive and convenient term _Jawi_, and the Malays, who alone among those races adopted the Arabic alphabet, adopted also the term in speaking of their language and writing.[48] [Footnote 48: “_Sawa_, _Jawa_, _Saba_, _Jaba_, _Zaba_, &c., has evidently in all times been the capital local name in Indonesia.