suara

Borrowed from Old Javanese swara (“sound, voice; vowel”) from Sanskrit स्वर (svara, “sound”).

suara (Balinese script ᬲ᭄ᬯᬭ)

1. sound

Borrowed from Old Javanese śwara, īśwara (“master, lord, king”), from Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvara, “God; the Supreme Being”).

suara (Balinese script ᬰ᭄ᬯᬭ)

1. prime, chief, major, main

From sus + ara.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [suˈa.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [suˈa.ɾa]

suara

1. just (a while ago)

   Synonym: adés

suara

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

From Malay suara, from Sanskrit स्वर (svara, “voice, sound”). The sense of "opinion, vote" is a semantic loan from Dutch stem (“vote”, literally “voice”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /suˈara/ [suˈa.ra]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: su‧a‧ra

suara (plural suara-suara)

1. voice, utterance
2. (figurative) opinion
3. (figurative) vote (formalised choice)

   Synonym: sêtèm

   Synonym: undi (Standard Malay)

• “suara” 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 स्वर (svara, “voice, sound”).

• Audio (Malaysia):

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suara (Jawi spelling سوارا, plural suara-suara)

1. voice, utterance
   • 2021, “Dijangka”, Nur Wahidah (lyrics), performed by Subsonic Eye:

     Suaramu sebelahku
     Seperti lagu kegemaranku

     Your voice beside me
     is like a favourite song of mine

• Indonesian: suara
• → Kapampangan: siuala
• → Maguindanao: suala
• → Tausug: swara

• Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, page 171
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “سوار soewara”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek‎^[1], John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 35
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “سوار suwara”, in A Malay-English dictionary‎^[2], Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 416
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “suara”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised)‎^[3], volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 491

• Hyphenation: su‧a‧ra

suara

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