budaya

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bu‧da‧ya

Noun

budaya

1. (obsolete) culture

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay budaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.da.ja/
• Hyphenation: bu‧da‧ya

Noun

budaya (first-person possessive budayaku, second-person possessive budayamu, third-person possessive budayanya)

1. intellectual capacity (the faculty of reasoning and understanding)

   Synonym: akal budi

2. culture (the arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation)

   Synonym: adat istiadat

3. (colloquial) tendency, habit, norm (a pervasively engrained practice, especially one that is hard to give up)

   Synonyms: kelaziman, kebiasaan

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• kebudayaan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• sebudaya [comparability] (se-)
• berbudaya [stative / habitual] (beR-)
• membudaya [agent focus] (meN-)
• membudayakan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• dibudayakan [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
• terbudayakan [agentless action + causative benefactive] (teR- + -kan)
• terbudaya [agentless action] (teR-)
• pembudaya [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• pembudayaan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)

Further reading

• “budaya” 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.

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Javanese

Noun

budaya

1. culture

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Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit बुद्धयः (buddhayaḥ), plural of बुद्धि (buddhi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.da.ja/
• Hyphenation: bu‧da‧ya

Noun

budaya (plural budaya-budaya, informal 1st possessive budayaku, 2nd possessive budayamu, 3rd possessive budayanya)

1. intellectual capacity (the faculty of reasoning and understanding)

   Synonym: akal budi

2. culture (the arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation)

   Synonym: adat istiadat

3. (colloquial) tendency, habit, norm (a pervasively engrained practice, especially one that is hard to give up)

   Synonyms: kelaziman, kebiasaan