wacana
Balinese edit
Romanization edit
wacana
- Romanization of ᬯᬘᬦ
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
wacana (first-person possessive wacanaku, second-person possessive wacanamu, third-person possessive wacananya)
- verbal communication.
- discourse
- 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.
- systematic thinking.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Malay: wacana
Further reading edit
- “wacana” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
wacana
- Romanization of ꦮꦕꦤ
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit वचन (vacana).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
wacana
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- "wacana" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.