laksana
Balinese
Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay laksana, from Sanskrit लक्षण (lakṣaṇa, “characteristic, trait”).
- The senses of action, doing, performing are semantic loan from Old Javanese lakṣaṇa (“action, doing”), from the same Sanskrit word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laksana/
- Hyphenation: lak‧sa‧na
Noun
laksana (plural laksana-laksana, first-person possessive laksanaku, second-person possessive laksanamu, third-person possessive laksananya)
- (archaic) auspicious sign, deed
- (just) like; similar to
- (archaeology) the characteristic of a statue.
- (derivation) action, doing, performing.
Further reading
- “laksana” 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
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