daya.
power:
Meaning & usage
power: physical force or strength
power: electricity or a supply of electricity
power: a measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy, a measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time
power: the strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image
trick
ability
effort
Where this word comes from
From Malay daya, probably from one of which: # Proto-Malayic *daya (“to trick, to fool”) # Sanskrit उदय (udaya, “rise, result”) # Old Javanese daya (“inner feelings; heart”), from Pali hadaya (“feeling”, literally “heart”), from Sanskrit हृदय (hṛdaya, “soul, mind, spirit”, literally “heart”) # Old Javanese daya, dāya, deya (“(future) act; plan”), de- (“action; condition; by”); aya, haya, ayah (“effort”) The sense of a measure of the rate of work or transferring energy in physics is a semantic loan from Dutch vermogen (“power (physics)”, literally “ability”).
used only in the noun phrase barat daya (“southwest”)
Where this word comes from
From Malay daya, from Proto-Malayic *daya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daya, from Proto-Austronesian *daya (“towards the inland; south”).
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