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Old Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit स्वीकार (svīkāra, “claim, claiming”). Doublet of sikara.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swi.ka.ra/
- Rhymes: -ra
- Hyphenation: swī‧kā‧ra
Adjective
swīkāra
- insistent
- urgent
Adverb
swīkāra
- insistently
- urgently
- tenaciously
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- "swīkāra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.