a. and sb. [f. JAVA + -AN.] a. adj. Of Java. b. sb. A native of Java.
1606. E. Scott (title), An exact Discovrse … of the East Indians, as well Chyneses as Iauans.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 541. A Iavan King … which had a hundred wives.
1883. G. Allen, Colin Clout’s Calendar, xii. 69. The Javan and Indian fauna.
