biara

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /biˈara/ [biˈa.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: bi‧a‧ra

Inherited from Malay بيارا (biara, “monastery”), from Old Malay vihāra (“monastery”), from Sanskrit विहार (vihāra, “monastery, academy”). Doublet of wihara.

biara (plural biara-biara)

1. monastery: a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits)
   1. (Christianity) monastery

This word (biara) is used for non-Buddhist monastery in Indonesian, especially the Christian one. For the Buddhist monastery, wihara, which is the cognate and loanword from Javanese, is used instead in Indonesian. This is different from Malay biara which used for all meaning of monastery.

Borrowed from Kambera [Term?]

biara

1. to separate each previously colored stream to make one according to the same color

• “biara” 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.

From Sanskrit विहार (vihāra).

• Rhymes: -a

biara (Jawi spelling بيارا, plural biara-biara)

1. monastery

Unlike in Malay, Indonesian biara has developed specialised meaning.