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bedah.

surgery: a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun[bəˈd̪ah]
  1. surgery: a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body

  2. ellipsis of ilmu bedah (“surgery (specialisation)”)

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis
  3. review: a second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights

    figuratively
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay bedah (“cracked; broken; lanced by a surgeon”), from Javanese ꦧꦼꦝꦃ (bedhah, “broken through, ripped open; to be overcome by force”), from Old Javanese bĕḍah (“to break, to burst”).

adj[bəˈd̪ah]
  1. torn, broken

    dialectal
  2. surgical

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay bedah (“cracked; broken; lanced by a surgeon”), from Javanese ꦧꦼꦝꦃ (bedhah, “broken through, ripped open; to be overcome by force”), from Old Javanese bĕḍah (“to break, to burst”).

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