Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kuˈasa/ [kuˈa.sa]Category:Indonesian 3-syllable words#KUASACategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#KUASA
• Rhymes: -asaCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/asa#KUASACategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/asa/3 syllables#KUASA
• Syllabification: ku‧a‧sa

Etymology 1

From MalayCategory:Indonesian terms inherited from Malay#KUASACategory:Indonesian terms derived from Malay#KUASA kuasa, ke- +‎ *wasaCategory:Indonesian terms prefixed with ke-#WASA, from JavaneseCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Javanese#KUASA ꦏꦸꦮꦱ (kuwasa), ꦏꦮꦱ (kawasa), from Old JavaneseCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese#KUASA kawaśa, from SanskritCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit#KUASA वश (vaśa, “authority, power, control, dominion”).

• Semantic loan from DutchCategory:Indonesian semantic loans from Dutch#KUASACategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#KUASA mandaat (“mandate”).^[1]

Etymology 2

Ultimately from SanskritCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit#KUASA अङ्कुश (aṅkuśa, “hook, elephant-driver's hook”). Doublet of kusaCategory:Indonesian doublets#KUASA.

References

Further reading

• “kuasa”, 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

Etymology

From JavaneseCategory:Malay terms borrowed from Javanese#KUASACategory:Malay terms derived from Javanese#KUASA ꦏꦸꦮꦱ (kuwasa), ꦏꦮꦱ (kawasa), from SanskritCategory:Malay terms derived from Sanskrit#KUASA वश (vaśa, “authority, power, control, dominion”). Reconstructed as ke- +‎ *wasaCategory:Malay terms prefixed with ke-#WASA.

Pronunciation

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈkwasa/ [ˈkwa.sa]Category:Malay 2-syllable words#KUASACategory:Malay terms with IPA pronunciation#KUASA
• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈkwasə/ [ˈkwa.sə]Category:Malay 2-syllable words#KUASACategory:Malay terms with IPA pronunciation#KUASA
• Rhymes: -asa, -saCategory:Rhymes:Malay/asa#KUASACategory:Rhymes:Malay/sa#KUASA

• Audio (Malaysia):

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• Rhymes: -aCategory:Rhymes:Malay/a#KUASACategory:Rhymes:Malay/a/3 syllables#KUASA

Noun

kuasa (Jawi spelling کواس, plural kuasa-kuasa or kuasa²)Category:Malay lemmas#KUASACategory:Malay nouns#KUASACategory:Malay entries with incorrect language header#KUASACategory:Pages with entries#KUASACategory:Pages with 2 entries#KUASA

1. power

   Synonym: tenaga

   1. (mathematicsCategory:ms:Mathematics#KUASA) product of equal factors.

      Synonym: pangkat (Indonesia)

   2. (physicsCategory:ms:Physics#KUASA) rate of doing work or transferring energy.

      Synonym: daya (Indonesia)

2. strength

   Synonym: kekuatan

3. authority

   Synonym: autoriti

References

• Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, pages 100-1
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “کواس koewasa”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, pages 91-2
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “کواس kuwasa”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 542
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “kuasa”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 616

Further reading

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