bicara

bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

1. language

bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

1. to talk
2. to speak

   ᨆᨌ ᨀᨚ ᨆᨅᨗᨌᨑ ᨕ��ᨁᨗ?

   Maca ko mabicara ugi?

   Can you speak Buginese?

bicara

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

• bitjara (pre-1947, 1947-1972)

• Inherited from Malay bicara, possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian or Sanskrit विचार (vicāra, “thought, discussion”). Doublet of wicara.
• For sense of guaranteed, semantic loan from Betawi [Term?].

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /biˈt͡ʃara/ [biˈt͡ʃa.ra]

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: bi‧ca‧ra

bicara

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

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
Active	–	–	–	–	–
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.

bicara

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

bicara

1. on talk
2. (informal) guaranteed

• “bicara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

bicara

1. Romanization of ꦧꦶꦕꦫ

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

• (Johor-Selangor, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /bit͡ʃarə/
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /bit͡ʃara/
• Rhymes: -arə, -rə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a, -ra

bicara (used in the form berbicara)

1. to talk, to speak

• berbicara: to talk
• membicarakan: to discuss, to talk about
• pembicara: speaker (person)
• pembicaraan: discussion

• Indonesian: bicara

bicara

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

From Classical Malay بيچارا (bicara).

• IPA^(key): /bi.ˈt͡ʃa.ɾa/

bicara (Jawi بيچاره)

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

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

• 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

From Malay bicara, possibly through Ternate bicara.

• IPA^(key): /bi.ˈt͡ʃa.ra/

bicara

1. (intransitive) to speak

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

bicara

1. speech

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