warna bahasa
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of warna (“colour”) + bahasa (“language”), calque of Balinese ᬯᬃᬦᬩᬲ (warna basa, “register”, literally “variety of language”), from Sanskrit वर्ण (varṇa, “colour”) + भाषा (bhāṣā, “language”).
Noun
[edit]warna bahasa (first-person possessive warna bahasaku, second-person possessive warna bahasamu, third-person possessive warna bahasanya)
- (linguistics) register: a style of a language used in a particular context, which is related to honorific.
- Synonym: laras bahasa
Further reading
[edit]- “warna bahasa” 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.