bicara

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See also: bicará

Buginese

Noun

bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

  1. language

Verb

bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

  1. to talk
  2. to speak
    ᨆᨌ ᨀᨚ ᨆᨅᨗᨌᨑ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ?
    Maca ko mabicara ugi?
    Can you speak Buginese?

Galician

Verb

bicara

  1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of bicar

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

bicara

  1. to have dealing
  2. (informal) to talk, to speak

Conjugation

Conjugation of bicara (ber-, intransitive)
Root bicara
Active Involuntary Passive Imperative Jussive
Active berbicara terbicara dibicara bicara bicaralah
Locative – – – – –
Causative / Applicative1 membicarakan terbicarakan dibicarakan bicarakan bicarakanlah
Causative
Locative – – – – –
Causative / Applicative1 memperbicarakan terperbicarakan diperbicarakan perbicarakan perbicarakanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Noun

bicara

  1. thought
  2. (informal) negotiation, discussion
  3. (obsolete) opinion

Adjective

bicara

  1. on talk
  2. (informal) guaranteed

Derived terms

Derived terms

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

bicara

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦶꦕꦫ

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit विचार (vicāra, “thought, discussion”). From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Buginese ᨅᨗᨌᨑ (bicara), Indonesian bicara).

Pronunciation

Verb

bicara (used in the form berbicara)

  1. to talk, to speak

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: bicara

Portuguese

Verb

bicara

  1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of bicar

Ternate

Etymology

From Classical Malay بيچارا (bicara).

Pronunciation

Verb

bicara (Jawi بيچاره)

  1. (intransitive) to discuss, deliberate
  2. (intransitive) to speak

Conjugation

Conjugation of bicara
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tobicara fobicara mibicara
2nd nobicara nibicara
3rd Masculine obicara ibicara, yobicara†
Feminine mobicara
Neuter ibicara
† - archaic

References

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

Etymology

From Malay bicara, possibly through Ternate bicara.

Pronunciation

Verb

bicara

  1. (intransitive) to speak

Conjugation

Conjugation of bicara (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tebicara mebicara abicara
2nd person nebicara febicara
3rd person inanimate ibicara debicara
animate
imperative nibicara, bicara fibicara, bicara

Noun

bicara

  1. speech

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
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