biola

Inherited from Malay biola, from Portuguese viola, from Old Galician-Portuguese viola, from Old Occitan viola, from Medieval Latin vitula, from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory. Semantic loan from Dutch viool and English violin for soprano-voiced bowed string musical instrument sense.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /biˈola/ [biˈo.la]

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• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: bi‧o‧la

biola (plural biola-biola)

1. (music) violin: A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family

• “biola”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Portuguese viola, from Old Galician-Portuguese viola, from Old Occitan viola, from Medieval Latin vitula, from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory. Semantic loan from English violin.

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈbiolə/ [ˈbjo.lə]
• Rhymes: -lə, -ə
• (/a/-variety, Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈbiola/ [ˈbjo.la]
• Rhymes: -la, -a
• Hyphenation: bio‧la

biola (Jawi spelling بيولا, plural biola-biola or biola²) (music)

1. violin

• > Indonesian: biola (inherited)
• → Tausug: biyula

• "biola" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017