benua

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Malay vanua, from Proto-Malayic *bənua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Austronesian *banua.

benua

1. awed

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Malay vanua, from Proto-Malayic *bənua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Austronesian *banua. Doublet of banua and wanua.

• IPA^(key): [bəˈnua̯]

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• Hyphenation: bê‧nua

bênua (first-person possessive benuaku, second-person possessive benuamu, third-person possessive benuanya)

1. (geography) continent

   Synonym: kontinen

2. (archaic) land, country

   Synonyms: kerajaan, negeri

• “benua” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayic *bənua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Austronesian *banua. Cognate with Iban menua and Maori whenua.

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (vanua).

• IPA^(key): /bənua/
• Rhymes: -ənua, -nua, -ua, -a

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1. (geography) continent (each of main land-masses on earth's surface)

   Synonym: tanah raya

   Benua Afrika ― The African continent

2. (Classical Malay) land, country

   Synonyms: tanah, negara, negeri

   Benua Sumatera ― Land of Sumatra

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “benua” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua (“inhabited land”), from Proto-Austronesian *banua. Doublet of banua.

benua (mutated form mbenua)

1. fallow (uncultivated land)

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 33.