biku
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Hiri Motu[edit]
Noun[edit]
biku
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Malay biku from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
biku
Alternative forms[edit]
- (formal) biksu
Further reading[edit]
- “biku” 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.
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
biku
Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”) likely via Thai, from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biksu.
Noun[edit]
biku (Jawi spelling بيکو, plural biku-biku, informal 1st possessive bikuku, 2nd possessive bikumu, 3rd possessive bikunya)
References[edit]
- Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, pages 34-5
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بيکو biku”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 96
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “biku”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 139
Further reading[edit]
- “biku” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Old Javanese[edit]
Noun[edit]
biku
- Alternative spelling of wiku (“holy man, sage; priest; monk, nun, ascetic, anchorite or anchoress, hermit”)
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Noun[edit]
biku (Cyrillic spelling бику)
Categories:
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- Hiri Motu nouns
- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Pali
- Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit
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- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Buddhism
- Indonesian informal terms
- id:Monasticism
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Malay terms derived from Pali
- Malay terms derived from Sanskrit
- Malay doublets
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- ms:Buddhism
- Old Javanese lemmas
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- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
- Serbo-Croatian noun forms