suara

See also: suará and suarà

Balinese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Javanese swara (“sound, voice; vowel”) from Sanskrit स्वर (svara, “sound”).

Noun

suara (Balinese script ᬲ᭄ᬯᬭ)

1. sound

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Javanese śwara, īśwara (“master, lord, king”), from Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvara, “God; the Supreme Being”).

Noun

suara (Balinese script ᬰ᭄ᬯᬭ)

1. prime, chief, major, main

Catalan

Etymology

From sus + ara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [suˈa.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [suˈa.ɾa]

Adverb

suara

1. just (a while ago)

   Synonym: adés

Galician

Verb

suara

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

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• soeara (1901–1947, 1947–1972)

Etymology

Inherited from Malay suara, from Sanskrit स्वर (svara, “voice, sound”). The sense of "opinion, vote" is a semantic loan from Dutch stem (“vote”, literally “voice”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /suˈara/ [suˈa.ra]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: su‧a‧ra

Noun

suara (plural suara-suara)

1. voice, utterance
2. (figurative) opinion
3. (figurative) vote (formalized choice)

   Synonyms: balot, setem, undi (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

• bersuara
• disuarakan
• menyuarakan
• penyuara
• penyuaraan

• suara bulat
• suara hati
• suara isian
• suara minor
• suara miring
• suara rakyat
• suara remang-remang
• suara samaran
• suara sumbang

• alih suara
• kalah suara
• kotak suara
• paduan suara
• pemungutan suara
• sulih suara

Further reading

• “suara”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्वर (svara, “voice, sound”).

Pronunciation

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈsuarə/ [ˈswa.rə]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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• Rhymes: -rə, -ə
• (/a/-variety, Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈsuara/ [ˈswa.ra]
• Rhymes: -ra, -a
• Hyphenation: su‧a‧ra

Noun

suara (Jawi spelling سوارا, plural suara-suara or suara²)

1. voice, utterance
   • 2021, “Dijangka”, Nur Wahidah (lyrics), performed by Subsonic Eye:

     Suaramu sebelahku
     Seperti lagu kegemaranku

     Your voice beside me
     is like a favourite song of mine

Derived terms

Affixations

• menyuarakan (“to voice (an opinion or a demand); to sing”)

Compounds

• alih suara (“dubbing”)
• kalah suara
• kotak suara (“larynx; voice box”)
• paduan suara
• pemungutan suara
• sulih suara

Descendants

• > Indonesian: suara (inherited)
• → Kapampangan: siuala
• → Maguindanao: suala
• → Tausug: swara

References

• Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, page 171
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “سوار soewara”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek‎^[1], John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 35
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “سوار suwara”, in A Malay-English dictionary‎^[2], Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 416
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “suara”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised)‎^[3], volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 491

Further reading

• "suara" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su‧a‧ra

Verb

suara

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