sawah

If you called Bible Spice "sawah" she would wink and warm right up to you, since you are speaking her dialect.

There are no words ... CC 2008

It is strange, given their belief we are mental incompetents, that it was never considered that "sawah" could be a typo, given that "r" and "w" are two keyboard positions apart.

There are no words ... CC 2008

Apricot-colored boys astride smooth gray water buffaloes wallowed in the ooze of the sawah wet rice paddies; the slim, bent figures of working women in conical hats made them look like ambulating toadstools.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010

Apricot-colored boys astride smooth gray water buffaloes wallowed in the ooze of the sawah wet rice paddies; the slim, bent figures of working women in conical hats made them look like ambulating toadstools.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010

The only find involving sawah rats (Rattus rattus brevicaudatus) occurred on March 23, 1918, in Bogor on Java, where a rat king of ten young field rats was found.

Boing Boing 2008

Only about 1.4 percent of the original land area is still forested; the rest has been cleared away for agriculture, especially sawah rice.

Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests 2008

The name of _sawah_ is given to the rice fields, which can be irrigated artificially;

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

On sawah land the rice is grown in terraces, which are so arranged that, without any machinery for raising or cisterns for storing the water, a perfectly natural and perpetual supply is gained from the high mountains, which serve here the same useful purpose that the great river

A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore 1898

Before the English administration the peasant had paid -- (1) a land rent for his rice lands to the native princes, amounting to a sum equivalent to one-half of the produce of sawah (irrigated) and one-third of tegal

A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore 1898

Up went the mud-lake hundreds of feet into the air; out came the steam with the sound of a thousand trombones, and away went the two porters, head ever heels, down the outer slope of the cone and across the sawah as if the spirit of evil were after them.

Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859