wiśuddha

Old Javanese

Etymology

Affixed wi- +‎ śuddha (“clean, pure, clear; bright, white; faultless, blameless, right, correct; subtracted, diminished subtraction”), borrowed from Sanskrit विशुद्ध (viśuddha, “clear, virtuous, completed”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /wi.su.da/
  • Rhymes: -da
  • Hyphenation: wi‧su‧da

Noun

wiśuddha

  1. completely cleansed

Descendants
  • → Indonesian: wisuda (“convocation, commencement, graduation”) (learned)

Further reading
  • "wiśuddha" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
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