bicara

See also: bicará

Buginese

Noun

bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

1. language

Verb

bicara (Lontara spelling ᨅᨗᨌᨑ)

1. to talk
2. to speak

   ᨆᨌ ᨀᨚ ᨆᨅᨗᨌᨑ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ?

   Maca ko mabicara ugi?

   Can you speak Buginese?

Galician

Verb

bicara

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

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• bitjara (1901–1947, 1947–1972)

Etymology

• 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?].

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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

Verb

bicara

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of bicara (ber-, intransitive)

root	bicara
	active	reflective passive	ordinary passive	imperative	emphatic / jussive
	ordinary
active	berbicara	terbicara	dibicara	bicara	bicaralah
locative	–	–	–	–	–
perfective causative / applicative1	membicarakan	terbicarakan	dibicarakan	bicarakan	bicarakanlah
	causative
active	–	–	–	–	–
locative	–	–	–	–	–
perfective causative / applicative1	memperbicarakan	terperbicarakan	diperbicarakan	perbicarakan	perbicarakanlah

¹ The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Noun

bicara

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

Adjective

bicara

1. on talk
2. (informal) guaranteed

Derived terms

• berbicara (“talk”)
• lawan bicara (“interlocutor”)
• membicarakan (“to discuss, to talk about”)
• pembicara (“speaker (person)”)
• pembicaraan (“discussion”)

Further reading

• “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.

Javanese

Romanization

bicara

1. Romanization of ꦧꦶꦕꦫ

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bicara (used in the form berbicara)

1. to talk, to speak

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Indonesian: bicara

Portuguese

Verb

bicara

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

Ternate

Etymology

From Classical Malay بيچارا (bicara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.ˈt͡ʃa.ɾa/

Verb

bicara (Jawi بيچاره)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of bicara

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tobicara	fobicara	mibicara
2nd person		nobicara	nibicara
3rd person	masculine	obicara	ibicara yobicara (archaic)
	feminine	mobicara
	neuter	ibicara

References

• 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

Etymology

From Malay bicara, possibly through Ternate bicara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.ˈt͡ʃa.ra/

Verb

bicara

1. (intransitive) to speak

Conjugation

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

bicara

1. speech

References

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