wiśuddha

Old Javanese

Etymology

Affixed wi- +‎ śuddha (“clean, pure, clear; bright, white; faultless, blameless, right, correct; subtracted, diminished subtraction”), borrowed from Sanskrit विशुद्ध (viśuddha, “clear, virtuous, completed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi.su.da/
• Rhymes: -da
• Hyphenation: wi‧su‧da

Noun

wiśuddha

1. completely cleansed

Descendants

• → Indonesian: wisuda (“convocation, commencement, graduation”) (learned)

Further reading

• "wiśuddha" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.