buah

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq. Doublet of woh.

• IPA^(key): /buah/

buah (Balinese script ᬩᬸᬯᬄ)

1. (kasar) fruit

   Synonym: (alus) woh

• “buah” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

• IPA^(key): /buah/

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• Hyphenation: bu‧ah

buah

1. fruit

buah

1. (Classifier for anything generally concretely big and has volume.)

From Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

buah

1. fruit (food)
2. fruit (part of plant)

Inherited from Malay buah, from Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

• The sense of result and outcome are probably semantic loan from Sanskrit फल (phala, “result, yield, consequence”, literally “fruit”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbuah/ [ˈbu.ah]

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• Rhymes: -ah
• Syllabification: bu‧ah

buah (plural buah-buah or buah-buahan)

1. fruit
2. (figurative) result, outcome

   Synonym: hasil

3. (figurative) origin, subject, topic, theme

   Synonyms: bahan, pokok

buah (singular sebuah)

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and having volume, as well as abstract things.

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “buah” 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.

From Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq. First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (vuaḥ).

• The sense of result and outcome are probably semantic loan from Sanskrit फल (phala, “result, yield, consequence”, literally “fruit”). Compare with Tagalog bunga with both fruit and result senses, while Malay bunga means flower.

• (Baku, Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈbwah/ [ˈbwah]

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• Rhymes: -ah
• Hyphenation: buah

buah (Jawi spelling بواه, plural buah-buah or buah-buahan)

1. fruit (part of plant)
2. fruit (food)
3. any small and/or roundish holdable object resembling fruit or otherwise

   buah catur: chess piece

   buah dadu: dice

   buah tasbih: beads on a rosary or the like

• Indonesian: buah

buah (singular sebuah)

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and has volume.

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “بوه boewah”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 66
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بوه buwah”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 96
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “buah”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 154-5

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

buah (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮃᮂ)

1. fruit
2. (Bandung) mango^[1]