Betawi
noun
Betawi is a noun meaning “A member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-T-A-W-I, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Betawi is Betawis.
What does Betawi mean?
noun
- 1
A member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Betawi
- Betawis plural
- Batavian
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Betawi?
Betawi appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Betawi in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Indonesian ethnic group:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | betawi, batavien |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Betawi come from?
Borrowed from Indonesian Betawi. Doublet of Batavia and Passau.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).