widya

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Javanese

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Romanization

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widya

  1. Romanization of ꦮꦶꦢꦾ

Malay

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge”), compare with Javanese ꦮꦶꦢꦾ (widya) and Eastern Cham ꨝꨪꨖꨪ. Popularized as the name of a nationally distributed school magazine in Malaysia from the 1970s to the 1980s.[1]

Noun

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widya (plural widya-widya, informal 1st possessive widyaku, 2nd possessive widyamu, 3rd possessive widyanya)

  1. (Malaysia, uncommon) science

References

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  1. ^ Shaharir Mohamad Zain (2021) “Bahasa Campa sebelum abad ke-19 M : pencapaian ilmunya dan pengayaan bahasa Melayu kini.”, in Jurnal Arkeologi Malaysia‎[1], volume 34, number 2, pages 100-1
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