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Where does “bhāṣa” come from?
bhāṣa (Old Javanese) comes from Sanskrit भाषा, from Sanskrit भाष.
bhāṣa
(Old Javanese): speech
Definitions
speech
Ancestry of “bhāṣa”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Sanskrit
भाषा
speech, language; any Prakrit dialect or a...
2
Sanskrit
भाष
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Words derived from “bhāṣa”
basa
ꦧꦱ
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