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Clipping of English Javanese or French javanais.
Java
- (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Javanese.
From Franco-Italian or Latin: Java
Java f
- 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

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.
Java
- An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
- (computer languages) An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
- (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):
- (island): Greater Sunda Islands
island of Indonesia
- Acehnese: Jawa
- Afrikaans: Java
- Amharic: ጃዋ (ǧawa)
- Arabic: جَاوَة f (jāwa)
- Hijazi Arabic: جاوة f (jāwa)
- Armenian: Ճավա (Čava)
- Azerbaijani: Yava
- Balinese: Jawa
- Basque: Java
- Batak:
- Toba Batak: Jawa
- Belarusian: Ява (Java)
- Bengali: জাভা (bn) (jabha)
- Buginese: ᨍᨓ (Jawa)
- Bulgarian: Я́ва f (Jáva)
- Burmese: ယဝဒီပ (ya.wa.dipa.), ဂျားဗား (gya:ba:)
- Catalan: Java
- Cebuano: Java
- Chinese:
- Czech: Jáva (cs) f
- Danish: Java
- Dutch: Java (nl) n
- Esperanto: Javo (eo)
- Estonian: Jaava
- Farefare: Iava, Yava, Zava
- Finnish: Jaava (fi)
- French: Java (fr) f
- Galician: Xava (gl) f
- Georgian: იავა (iava)
- German: Java (de)
- Gorontalo: Jawa
- Greek: Ιάβα (el) (Iáva)
- Gujarati: જાવા (jāvā)
- Hebrew: ג׳אווה
- Hindi: जावा (hi) m (jāvā), यवद्वीप (hi) m (yavadvīp)
- Hungarian: Jáva (hu)
- Icelandic: Java
- Indonesian: Jawa (id), pulau Jawa (island)
- Interlingua: Java
- Irish: Iáva f
- Italian: Giava
- Japanese: ジャワ (ja) (Jawa), ジャワ島 (ja) (Jawa-tō)
- Javanese: Jawa, pulo Jawa (Java Island)
- Kannada: ಜಾವಾ (jāvā)
- Kazakh: Ява (Äva)
- Khmer: ជ្វា (km) (cvie)
- Korean: 자와 (Jawa)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: Ява (Yava)
- Latvian: Java
- Lithuanian: Java
- Macedonian: Јава f (Java)
- Madurese: Jhâbâ
- Malagasy: Java (mg)
- Malay: Jawa
- Malayalam: ജാവ (ml) (jāva)
- Marathi: जावा (jāvā)
- Minangkabau: Jawa
- Mongolian: Жава (Žava)
- Nepali: जावा (jāwā)
- Odia: ଜାଭା (jābhā)
- Persian: جاوه (fa) (jâve)
- Polish: Jawa (pl) f
- Portuguese: Java (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਜਾਵਾ (jāvā)
- Romanian: Java
- Russian: Я́ва (ru) f (Jáva)
- Sanskrit: यव (sa) m (yava), यवद्वीप (sa) m (yavadvīpa), यव द्वीप (yava dvīpa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: ජාවා (si) (jāwā)
- Slovak: Jáva
- Slovene: Java
- Spanish: Java (es)
- Sundanese: Jawa
- Tagalog: Haba
- Tajik: Ҷава (Java)
- Tamil: ஜாவா (ta) (jāvā), இயவதீவு (iyavatīvu)
- Telugu: జావా (te) (jāvā), యవద్వీపము (yavadvīpamu)
- Thai: ชวา (th) (chá-waa)
- Tibetan: ཇ་ཝ (ja wa)
- Turkish: Java (tr), Cava
- Ukrainian: Ява (Java)
- Urdu: جاوا (jāvā)
- Uzbek: Java
- Volapük: Yafeän (vo)
programming language
- Arabic: جَافَا (ar) f (jāfā), جَافَا (ar) f (javā), Java f
- Hijazi Arabic: جافا f (jāfa, jāva)
- Belarusian: Джава f (Džava), Ява f (Java), Java f (Džáva, Jáva)
- Bulgarian: Джа́ва f (Džáva), Java f (Džáva, Jáva)
- Chinese:
- Czech: Java (cs) f
- Danish: java n, Java n
- Dutch: Java (nl) n
- Finnish: Java (fi)
- French: Java (fr) m
- Georgian: ჯავა (ǯava)
- German: Java (de) n
- Hebrew: ג׳אווה
- Hindi: जावा (hi) (jāvā)
- Hungarian: Java (hu)
- Italian: Java (it) m
- Japanese: ジャバ (jaba), ジャヴァ (java)
- Korean: 자바 (ko) (Jaba)
- Kurdish:
- Macedonian: Џава f (Džava), Јава f (Java), Java f (Džáva, Jáva)
- Marathi: जावा f (jāvā)
- Persian: جاوا (fa) (jâvâ)
- Polish: Java (pl) f
- Portuguese: Java (pt) m
- Russian: Джа́ва f (Džáva), Я́ва (ru) f (Jáva) (colloquial), Жа́ба (ru) f (Žába, literally “toad”) (slang)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swedish: Java (sv)
- Thai: จาวา (jaa-wâa)
- Turkish: Java (tr)
- Ukrainian: Джа́ва f (Džáva), Я́ва (Jáva), Java f (Džáva, Jáva)
Java (plural Javas)

- A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
Java f
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
The neighbourhood is named after the Indonesian island.
Java n
- Java (island of Indonesia)
- a neighbourhood of Almelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
Java f
- Java (Island)
- L'île de Java. ― Java island.
Java m
- Java (programming language)
Java n (proper noun, genitive Javas or (optionally with an article) Java)
Java n (proper noun, strong, genitive Javas)
- Java (programming language)
Unadapted borrowing from English Java, from Javanese Jawa, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa).
Java f
- Java (programming language)
Declension of Java
- Java in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Java f
Unadapted borrowing from English Java.
Java m
Java f
- → Tagalog: Haba
Java m
- Java (programming language)
Java n (genitive Javas)