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bicara

See also: bicará

Buginese

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Noun

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bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

  1. language

Verb

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bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

  1. to talk
  2. to speak
    ᨆᨌ ᨀᨚ ᨆᨅᨗᨌᨑ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ?
    Maca ko mabicara ugi?
    Can you speak Buginese?

Galician

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bicara

  1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of bicar

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /biˈt͡ʃara/ [biˈt͡ʃa.ra]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ara
  • Syllabification: bi‧ca‧ra

Verb

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bicara

  1. to have dealing
  2. (informal) to talk, to speak

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bicara (ber-, intransitive)
Root bicara
Active Involuntary Passive Basic /
Imperative 		Jussive
Active berbicara terbicara dibicara bicara bicaralah
Locative – – – – –
Causative / Applicative1 membicarakan terbicarakan dibicarakan bicarakan bicarakanlah
Causative
Locative – – – – –
Causative / Applicative1 memperbicarakan terperbicarakan diperbicarakan perbicarakan perbicarakanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Notes:
Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Noun

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bicara

  1. thought
  2. (informal) negotiation, discussion
  3. (obsolete) opinion

Adjective

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bicara

  1. on talk
  2. (informal) guaranteed

Derived terms

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Derived terms

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Javanese

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Romanization

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bicara

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦶꦕꦫ

Malay

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit विचार (vicāra, “thought, discussion”). From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Buginese ᨅᨗᨌᨑ (bicara), Indonesian bicara).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bicara (used in the form berbicara)

  1. to talk, to speak

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: bicara

Portuguese

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bicara

  1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of bicar

Ternate

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Etymology

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From Classical Malay بيچارا (bicara).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bicara (Jawi بيچاره)

  1. (intransitive) to discuss, deliberate
  2. (intransitive) to speak

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bicara
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tobicara fobicara mibicara
2nd nobicara nibicara
3rd Masculine obicara ibicara, yobicara†
Feminine mobicara
Neuter ibicara
† - archaic

References

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  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

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Etymology

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From Malay bicara, possibly through Ternate bicara.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bicara

  1. (intransitive) to speak

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bicara (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tebicara mebicara abicara
2nd person nebicara febicara
3rd person inanimate ibicara debicara
animate
imperative nibicara, bicara fibicara, bicara

Noun

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bicara

  1. speech

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[1], Pacific linguistics
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