biwara

== Indonesian == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from English (possibly American) beaver. Coined by Maria Sanjayani in a 1996 book titled Biwara dan Cucurut (original title: Beaver and shrew) to translate beaver. The term became more widely known in 2020 after being used on the Indonesian Wikipedia in December 2019. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bi.ˈwa.ra/ Rhymes: -ra, -a Hyphenation: bi‧wa‧ra === Noun === biwara (plural biwara-biwara) beaver === References === === Further reading === “biwara”, 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