bicara

bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

1. language

bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

1. to talk
2. to speak

   ᨆᨌ ᨀᨚ ᨆᨅᨗᨌᨑ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ?

   Maca ko mabicara ugi?

   Can you speak Buginese?

bicara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of bicar

• bitjara (1901–1947, 1947–1972)

Inherited from Malay bicara, from Sanskrit विचार (vicāra, “thought, discussion”). Doublet of wicara.

• For sense of guaranteed, semantic loan from Betawi [Term?].

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /biˈt͡ʃara/ [biˈt͡ʃa.ra]

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: bi‧ca‧ra

bicara

1. to have dealing
2. to talk, to speak

   Synonym: berbicara

bicara

1. talk

   Synonym: (more common) pembicaraan

2. (rare) thought

   Synonym: pikiran

3. (informal) negotiation, discussion
4. (obsolete) opinion

bicara

1. on talk
2. (informal) guaranteed

• “bicara” 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.

bicara

1. romanization of ꦧꦶꦕꦫ

Borrowed from Sanskrit विचार (vicāra, “thought, discussion”).

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /biˈt͡ʃara/ [biˈt͡ʃa.ra]
  • Rhymes: -ara
• (Johor-Riau, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /biˈt͡ʃarə/ [biˈt͡ʃa.rə]
  • Rhymes: -arə
• Hyphenation: bi‧ca‧ra

bicara (used in the form berbicara)

1. to talk, to speak

• berbicara: to talk
• membicarakan: to discuss, to talk about
• pembicara: speaker (person)
• pembicaraan: discussion

• Indonesian: bicara
• → Dutch: pitsjaren, pasjaren
  • → Danish: passiare
  • → Norwegian: passiare
  • → Swedish: passiare
• → Maranao: bitiyara
• → Tausug: bissara

• “bicara” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

bicara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of bicar

From Classical Malay بيچارا (bicara).

• IPA^(key): /bi.ˈt͡ʃa.ɾa/

bicara (Jawi بيچاره)

1. (intransitive) to discuss, deliberate
2. (intransitive) to speak

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Malay bicara, possibly through Ternate bicara.

• IPA^(key): /bi.ˈt͡ʃa.ra/

bicara

1. (intransitive) to speak

bicara

1. speech

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics