The story
- Sanskrit · derived fromभाषा“language”
- Malay · borrowed frombahasa“language”
- English todayBahasa
Borrowed from Indonesian and Malay bahasa (“language”), itself from Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā, “language”), as a shortening of Bahasa Indonesia/Bahasa Malaysia. Compare the use of Irish Béarla (“English”), originally simply meant "language".
Words from the same roots
Malaybahasa all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.