Where does “Bahasa” come from?

Bahasa (English) comes from Indonesian Bahasa, from Malay bahasa, from Sanskrit भाषा, from Sanskrit भाष.

Bahasa (English): the Malay-Indonesian language

Definitions

  1. the Malay-Indonesian language

Ancestry of “Bahasa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1IndonesianBahasalanguage
2Malaybahasalanguage; decorum, appropriate social behavior
3Sanskritभाषाspeech, language; any Prakrit dialect or a...
4Sanskritभाष—
Every word from Sanskrit भाष →Every word from Sanskrit भाषा →Every word from Malay bahasa →