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Javanese
Romanization
sikara
- Romanization of ꦱꦶꦏꦫ
Old Javanese
Etymology
Unknown, probably from Sanskrit स्वीकार (svīkāra, “appropriation, claiming, claim”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Verb
sikara
- to impose one's will,
- to insist on having one's own way
- to force
- to molest
- to vex
- to trouble
Adjective
sikara
- highly improbable, inconceivable
- incompatible
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- "sikara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.