Where does “multibahasa” come from?

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

multibahasa (Indonesian): multilingual

Definitions

  1. multilingual

Ancestry of “multibahasa”, step by step

multibahasa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian Bahasa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1IndonesianBahasalanguage
2Malaybahasalanguage; decorum, appropriate social behavior
3Sanskritभाषाspeech, language; any Prakrit dialect or a...
4Sanskritभाष—

via Indonesian multi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianmulti—

Words derived from “multibahasa”

Every word from Sanskrit भाष →Every word from Sanskrit भाषा →Every word from Malay bahasa →
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