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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bahasa is a noun meaning "the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia". It carries one recorded sense.
the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bahasa come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.