wacana
Balinese
editRomanization
editwacana
- Romanization of ᬯᬘᬦ
Indonesian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Javanese ꦮꦕꦤ (wacana, “word; commandment; speech; to speak, to talk”), from Old Javanese wacana (“speech, word; sound, voice; teaching”), from Sanskrit वचन (vacana).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwacana (first-person possessive wacanaku, second-person possessive wacanamu, third-person possessive wacananya)
- verbal communication.
- discourse
- exposition: the act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing; an essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
- systematic thinking.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Malay: wacana
Further reading
edit- “wacana” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
editRomanization
editwacana
- Romanization of ꦮꦕꦤ
Old Javanese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Sanskrit वचन (vacana).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwacana
Derived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- "wacana" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
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- Balinese non-lemma forms
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- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit
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- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Indonesian uncountable nouns
- Javanese non-lemma forms
- Javanese romanizations
- Old Javanese terms borrowed from Sanskrit
- Old Javanese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Old Javanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Javanese/na
- Rhymes:Old Javanese/na/3 syllables
- Old Javanese lemmas
- Old Javanese nouns