widya

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦶꦢꦾ (widya, “knowledge; body scrub, fragrance”), from Old Javanese widyā (“knowledge, science, learning; learned”), from Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge; science”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwid.ja/, [ˈwit̪̚.ja]
  • Rhymes: -ja
  • Hyphenation: wi‧dya

Noun

widya (plural widya-widya)

  1. science
    Synonym: ilmu pengetahuan

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

widya

  1. romanization of ꦮꦶꦢꦾ

Malay

Etymology

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

widya (plural widya-widya)

  1. (Malaysia, uncommon) science

References

  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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