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buah.

fruit

4 characters1 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbuah/Standard-Indonesian[ˈbu.ah]Standard-Indonesian

  1. fruit

  2. result, outcome

    figuratively

  3. origin, subject, topic, theme

    figuratively
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay buah, from Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq. * The sense of result and outcome are probably semantic loan from Sanskrit फल (phala, “result, yield, consequence”, literally “fruit”).

classifier/ˈbuah/Standard-Indonesian[ˈbu.ah]Standard-Indonesian

  1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and having volume, as well as abstract things.

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay buah, from Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq. * The sense of result and outcome are probably semantic loan from Sanskrit फल (phala, “result, yield, consequence”, literally “fruit”).

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