acara - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese acará, borrowed from Old Tupi akará, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akara.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːkəˈɹɑː/

acara (plural acaras)

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

• araca

acara

1. Romanization of ᬆᬘᬵᬭ.

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”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃara/ [aˈt͡ʃa.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: a‧ca‧ra

acara (plural acara-acara)

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

• atjara (superseded)

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• “acara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

acara

1. Romanization of ꦲꦕꦫ.

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”).

• (Johor-Selangor, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /at͡ʃarə/
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /at͡ʃara/
• Rhymes: -arə, -rə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a

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 Jenayah ― Criminal Procedural Code

• pengacara

• “acara” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.