biwara
Indonesian
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Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from English (possibly American) beaver. Coined by Maria Sanjayani in a 1996 book titled Biwara dan Cucurut (original title: Beaver and shrew) to translate beaver.[1] The term became more widely known in 2020 after being used on the Indonesian Wikipedia in December 2019.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]biwara (plural biwara-biwara)
References
[edit]- ^ Julivert, Maria Angels; Sanjayani, Maria (alihbahasa). 1996. Biwara dan Cucurut. Jakarta: Elex Media Komputindo. →ISBN. Katalog Perpustakaan Nasional RI: https://web.archive.org/web/20231002211739/https://opac.perpusnas.go.id/DetailOpac.aspx?id=238182
- ^ Page move log for "Beaver" to “Biwara”. Indonesian Wikipedia, 12 December 2019. https://id.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biwara&diff=prev&oldid=16297899. Accessed 03 March 2026.
Further reading
[edit]- “biwara”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
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