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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 .
Allah is the word for God even in Christian Bible translations. Many early Bible translators, when they came across some unusual Hebrew words or proper names, used the Arabic cognates. In the newer translations, this practice has been discontinued. They now turn to Greek names or use the original Hebrew word.
Babirusa, compound word from babi (pig) and rusa (deer) Banteng; Bantam, from the town of Banten / ᮝᮠᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪ wahanten ; Binturong; Cassowary from kasuari or suari, man suar [2] [3] Cockatoo from kakatua [4] Dugong from duyung; Gecko [5] Gourami from gurami; Komodo dragon, from Komodo; Orangutan [4] Pangolin from pengguling or ...
Bahasa Indonesia is sometimes improperly reduced to Bahasa, which refers to the Indonesian subject (Bahasa Indonesia) taught in schools, on the assumption that this is the name of the language. But the word bahasa (a loanword from Sanskrit Bhāṣā ) only means "language."
Indonesian Word Indonesian Meaning Sanskrit Word Sanskrit Transcription Sanskrit Meaning Note abrak: clear mining product, such as glass, mica: अभ्रक
This process is headed by Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa on the Indonesian side and Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka as its Malaysian counterpart through Majlis Bahasa Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia (MABBIM). Authorities in both Brunei and Singapore generally abide by the Malaysian standard in disputes.
Malay is an agglutinative language, and new words are formed by three methods.New words can be created by attaching affixes onto a root word (), formation of a compound word (composition), or repetition of words or portions of words (reduplication).
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...