widya
Indonesian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Javanese ꦮꦶꦢꦾ (widya, “knowledge; body scrub, fragrance”), from Old Javanese widyā (“knowledge, science, learning; learned”), from Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge; science”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwidya (plural widya-widya, first-person possessive widyaku, second-person possessive widyamu, third-person possessive widyanya)
- science
- Synonym: ilmu pengetahuan
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “widya” 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.
Javanese
editRomanization
editwidya
- Romanization of ꦮꦶꦢꦾ
Malay
editEtymology
editLearned 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
editwidya (plural widya-widya, informal 1st possessive widyaku, 2nd possessive widyamu, 3rd possessive widyanya)
References
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