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Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦶꦢꦾ (widya, “knowledge; body scrub, fragrance”), from Old Javanese widyā (“knowledge, science, learning; learned”), from Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge; science”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwid.ja/,
- Rhymes: -ja
- Hyphenation: wi‧dya
Noun
widya (plural widya-widya, first-person possessive widyaku, second-person possessive widyamu, third-person possessive widyanya)
- science
- Synonym: ilmu pengetahuan
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
widya
- Romanization of ꦮꦶꦢꦾ
Malay
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge”), compare with Javanese ꦮꦶꦢꦾ (widya) and Eastern Cham ꨝꨪꨖꨪ. Popularized as the name of a nationally distributed school magazine in Malaysia from the 1970s to the 1980s.[1]
Noun
widya (plural widya-widya, informal 1st possessive widyaku, 2nd possessive widyamu, 3rd possessive widyanya)
- (Malaysia, uncommon) science
References
- ^ Shaharir Mohamad Zain (2021) “Bahasa Campa sebelum abad ke-19 M : pencapaian ilmunya dan pengayaan bahasa Melayu kini.”, in Jurnal Arkeologi Malaysia, volume 34, number 2, pages 100-1