Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old JavaneseCategory:Balinese terms borrowed from Old Javanese#SUARACategory:Balinese terms derived from Old Javanese#SUARA swara (“sound, voice; vowel”) from SanskritCategory:Balinese terms derived from Sanskrit#SUARA स्वर (svara, “sound”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old JavaneseCategory:Balinese terms borrowed from Old Javanese#SUARACategory:Balinese terms derived from Old Javanese#SUARA śwara, īśwara (“master, lord, king”), from SanskritCategory:Balinese terms derived from Sanskrit#SUARA ईश्वर (īśvara, “God; the Supreme Being”).

Etymology

From sus + ara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [suˈa.ɾə]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#SUARA
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [suˈa.ɾa]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#SUARA

Adverb

suaraCategory:Catalan lemmas#SUARACategory:Catalan adverbs#SUARACategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#SUARACategory:Pages with entries#SUARACategory:Pages with 6 entries#SUARA

1. just (a while ago)

   Synonym: adés

Verb

suaraCategory:Galician non-lemma forms#SUARACategory:Galician verb forms#SUARACategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#SUARACategory:Pages with entries#SUARACategory:Pages with 6 entries#SUARA

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

Alternative forms

• soeara (1901–1947, 1947–1972)

Etymology

Inherited from MalayCategory:Indonesian terms inherited from Malay#SUARACategory:Indonesian terms derived from Malay#SUARA suara, from SanskritCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit#SUARA स्वर (svara, “voice, sound”). The sense of "opinion, vote" is a semantic loan from DutchCategory:Indonesian semantic loans from Dutch#SUARACategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#SUARA stem (“vote”, literally “voice”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /suˈara/ [suˈa.ra]Category:Indonesian 3-syllable words#SUARACategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#SUARA

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Indonesian terms with audio pronunciation#SUARA
• Rhymes: -araCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ara#SUARACategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ara/3 syllables#SUARA
• Syllabification: su‧a‧ra

Noun

suara (plural suara-suara)Category:Indonesian lemmas#SUARACategory:Indonesian nouns#SUARACategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#SUARACategory:Pages with entries#SUARACategory:Pages with 6 entries#SUARA

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

   Synonyms: balot, setem, undi (Standard Malay)

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

Etymology

Borrowed from SanskritCategory:Malay terms borrowed from Sanskrit#SUARACategory:Malay terms derived from Sanskrit#SUARA स्वर (svara, “voice, sound”).

Pronunciation

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈsuarə/ [ˈswa.rə]Category:Malay 3-syllable words#SUARACategory:Malay terms with IPA pronunciation#SUARA

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

    Category:Malay terms with audio pronunciation#SUARA
• Rhymes: -rə, -əCategory:Rhymes:Malay/rə#SUARACategory:Rhymes:Malay/rə/3 syllables#SUARACategory:Rhymes:Malay/ə#SUARACategory:Rhymes:Malay/ə/3 syllables#SUARA
• (/a/-variety, Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈsuara/ [ˈswa.ra]Category:Malay 3-syllable words#SUARACategory:Malay terms with IPA pronunciation#SUARA
• Rhymes: -ra, -aCategory:Rhymes:Malay/ra#SUARACategory:Rhymes:Malay/ra/3 syllables#SUARACategory:Rhymes:Malay/a#SUARACategory:Rhymes:Malay/a/3 syllables#SUARA
• Hyphenation: su‧a‧ra

Noun

suara (Jawi spelling سوارا, plural suara-suara or suara²)Category:Malay lemmas#SUARACategory:Malay nouns#SUARACategory:Malay entries with incorrect language header#SUARACategory:Pages with entries#SUARACategory:Pages with 6 entries#SUARA

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

     Category:Malay terms with quotations#SUARA

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, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 35
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “سوار suwara”, in A Malay-English dictionary‎, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 416
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “suara”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised)‎, 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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su‧a‧ra

Verb

suaraCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#SUARACategory:Portuguese verb forms#SUARACategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#SUARACategory:Pages with entries#SUARACategory:Pages with 6 entries#SUARA

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