wacana

wacana

1. Romanization of ᬯᬘᬦ

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).

• IPA^(key): [waˈt͡ʃa.na]
• Hyphenation: wa‧ca‧na

wacana (first-person possessive wacanaku, second-person possessive wacanamu, third-person possessive wacananya)

1. verbal communication.
2. discourse
3. 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.
4. systematic thinking.

• → Malay: wacana

• “wacana” 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.

wacana

1. Romanization of ꦮꦕꦤ

Borrowed from Sanskrit वचन (vacana).

• IPA^(key): /wa.t͡ʃa.na/
• Rhymes: -na
• Hyphenation: wa‧ca‧na

wacana

1. speech, word
2. sound, voice

   Synonyms: ābhā, dhwani, śabda, swabawa, swara, uni, wuni

3. teaching

• > Javanese: ꦮꦕꦤ (wacana) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: wacana
    • → Malay: wacana
• → Balinese: ᬯᬘᬦ (wacana)

• "wacana" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.