warna bahasa
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Compound of warna (“colour”) + bahasa (“language”), calque of Balinese ᬯᬃᬦᬩᬲ (warna basa, “register”, literally “variety of language”), from Sanskrit वर्ण (varṇa, “colour”) + भाषा (bhāṣā, “language”).
Noun edit
warna bahasa (first-person possessive warna bahasaku, second-person possessive warna bahasamu, third-person possessive warna bahasanya)
- (linguistics) register: a style of a language used in a particular context, which is related to honorific.
- Synonym: laras bahasa
Further reading edit
- “warna bahasa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.