acara

English

Etymology

From Portuguese acará, from Tupian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːkəˈɹɑː/

Noun

acara (plural acaras)

  1. Any of a number of Central American and South American freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae.

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Balinese

Romanization

acara

  1. Romanization of ᬆᬘᬵᬭ.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay acara, from Classical Malay اچارا (acara), from Sanskrit आचार (ācāra), from the root चर् (car), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (to move; to turn (around)). Doublet of acaram and ajar.

  • The sense of court examination is a learned borrowing from Old Javanese ācāra (custom, practice) as a semantic loan from Dutch proces (trial court, literally process, procedure).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈat͡ʃa.ra]
  • Hyphenation: aca‧ra
  • Rhymes: -ra, -a

Noun

acara (first-person possessive acaraku, second-person possessive acaramu, third-person possessive acaranya)

  1. agenda
    Synonym: agenda
  2. program (of television, radio, etc.)
    Synonym: programa
  3. event
    Synonym: kegiatan
  4. (law) court examination
    Synonym: perkara
  5. archaic form of cara.
  6. subject, theme

Alternative forms

  • atjara (superseded)

Derived terms

Affixations
  • beracara
  • kepengacaraan
  • mengacara
  • mengacarakan
  • pengacara (lawyer)
  • seacara
Compounds

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

acara

  1. Romanization of ꦲꦕꦫ.

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit आचार (ācāra), from the root चर् (car), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (to move; to turn (around)).

  • The sense of procedure (law) is a semantic loan from Indonesian acara (court examination).

Pronunciation

Noun

acara (Jawi spelling اچارا, plural acara-acara, informal 1st possessive acaraku, 2nd possessive acaramu, 3rd possessive acaranya)

  1. agenda
  2. program
  3. event (occurrence of social or personal importance)
  4. (law, dated) procedure
    Synonym: prosedur
    Kanun Acara JenayahCriminal Procedural Code

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