biku
Hiri Motu
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Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Malay biku from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbiku
Alternative forms
edit- (formal) biksu
Further reading
edit- “biku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
editRomanization
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Malay
editEtymology
editFrom Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”) likely via Thai, from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biksu.
Noun
editbiku (Jawi spelling بيکو, plural biku-biku, informal 1st possessive bikuku, 2nd possessive bikumu, 3rd possessive bikunya)
References
edit- Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, pages 34-5
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بيکو biku”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 96
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “biku”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 139
Further reading
edit- “biku” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Old Javanese
editNoun
editbiku
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editbiku (Cyrillic spelling бику)
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