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English: An Arabic, Malay, and Sundanese dictionary. قاموس عربية ملايو سوندا. Kamus kecil قاموس كچيل. Published in 1890. The author was Sayyid Uthmān ibn ʻAbdallāh ibn ʻAqīl ibn Yaḥyā Al-ʻAlawī, سيد عثمان بن عبد الله بن عقيل بن يحيى العلوي d.1914 who self published his works on his own lithographic press in Batavia.
The Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI ; lit. ' Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language ' ) is the official dictionary of the Indonesian language compiled by Language Development and Fostering Agency and published by Balai Pustaka .
In Indonesia, however, there is a clear distinction between "Malay language" (bahasa Melayu) and "Indonesian" (bahasa Indonesia). Indonesian is the national language which serves as the unifying language of Indonesia; despite being a standardized form of Malay, it is not referred to with the term "Malay" in common parlance. [ 18 ]
The Dutch adaptation of the Malay language during the colonial period resulted in the incorporation of a significant number of Dutch loanwords and vocabulary. This event significantly affected the original Malay language, which gradually developed into modern Indonesian. Most terms are documented in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia. [1]
The establishment of the Lembaga Bahasa (Language Board) began with the approval of an usul during a Legislative Council meeting on 18 April 1960. [1] The motion was to establish an independent body answerable to the government with the function of consolidating the status of Malay as the official language of Brunei, as enacted in the Constitution (Perlembagaan) which was promulgated in the ...
Kamus Bahasa Melayu Brunei is a dictionary of Brunei Malay, the native lingua franca in Brunei. [1] It is published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Brunei . The current publication is in its second edition, and contains more than 15,000 word entries.
The back of the Kamus Dewan dictionary. Kamus Dewan (Malay for The Institute Dictionary) is a Malay-language dictionary compiled by Teuku Iskandar and published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. This dictionary is useful to students who are studying Malay literature as they provide suitable synonyms, abbreviations and meanings of many Malay words.
But the word bahasa (a loanword from Sanskrit Bhāṣā) only means "language." For example, French language is translated as bahasa Prancis, and the same applies to other languages, such as bahasa Inggris (English), bahasa Jepang (Japanese), bahasa Arab (Arabic), bahasa Italia (Italian), and so on.