biku

== Hiri Motu == === Noun === biku banana == Indonesian == === Etymology === From Malay biku from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bi.ku/ Hyphenation: bi‧ku === Noun === biku (Buddhism, informal) synonym of biksu ==== Alternative forms ==== biksu (formal) === Further reading === “biku”, 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 == Japanese == === Romanization === biku Rōmaji transcription of びく == Malay == === Etymology === From Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”) likely via Thai, from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biksu. === Noun === biku (Jawi spelling بيکو, plural biku-biku or biku2) (Buddhism) monk Synonym: biksu === References === Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, pages 34-5 Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “بيکو biku”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 96 Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “biku”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 139 === Further reading === "biku" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017 == Old Javanese == === Noun === biku alternative spelling of wiku (“holy man, sage; priest; monk, nun, ascetic, anchorite or anchoress, hermit”) == Serbo-Croatian == === Noun === biku (Cyrillic spelling бику) dative/locative singular of bik