wacana

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Balinese

Romanization

wacana

  1. Romanization of ᬯᬘᬦ

Indonesian

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Etymology

Borrowed 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

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  • Hyphenation: wa‧ca‧na

Noun

wacana (first-person possessive wacanaku, second-person possessive wacanamu, third-person possessive wacananya)

  1. verbal communication.
  2. discourse
  3. 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.
  4. systematic thinking.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Malay: wacana

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

wacana

  1. Romanization of ꦮꦕꦤ

Old Javanese

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Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वचन (vacana).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa.t͡ʃa.na/
  • Rhymes: -na
  • Hyphenation: wa‧ca‧na

Noun

wacana

  1. speech, word
  2. sound, voice
    Synonyms: ābhā, dhwani, śabda, swabawa, swara, uni, wuni
  3. teaching

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • "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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