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wajang

wajang is the alternative form of wayang.

Meaning of wayang

Noun

wayang (countable and uncountable, plural wayangs or wayang)

  1. A theatrical performance of mythological events employing puppets or human dancers in Malaysia and Indonesia (especially Java).
  2. A shadow theatre performance, or such performances in general.
  3. (Malaysia, Singapore) Any traditional theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
    1. (Malaysia, Singapore) Traditional Chinese opera, performed outdoors. The equivalent term in Mandarin is 街戲 /街戏 (jiēxì, literally “street opera”).
  4. (Malaysia, Singapore, Singlish) Insincere behaviour; an act meant to deceive or mislead.
    • There had been two important reservations made on the practice of consultation and consensus. […] The other reservation is that consultation and consensus is no more than a “wayang”, because views are not accepted and no changes are made to the original policy.1991 January 3, Lim Boon Heng, “CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE (AMENDMENT NO. 3) BILL”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 56, quoted in Jack...

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Forms of wajang

pluralwajangs

Origin of wajang

Borrowed from Dutch wajang, from Javanese ꦮꦪꦁ (wayang), from Old Javanese wayaṅ.

Questions about wajang

What is wajang the alternative form of?
Wajang is the alternative form of wayang.

Words near wajang in the dictionary

  1. Waiwai
  2. waiwode
  3. waiwodes
  4. waiwodeship
  5. waiwodeships
  6. wajang
  7. wajangs
  8. Wajda
  9. Wajdas
  10. wajib
  11. wajib saum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wajang (page history and authors); wayang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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