biwara

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from English (possibly American) beaver. Coined by unknown translator in a 1996 book titled Biwara dan Cucurut (original title: Beaver and shrew) to translate beaver, popularized in 2020 after Indonesian Wikipedia used the term for the title of the article.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bi.ˈwa.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ra, -a
  • Hyphenation: bi‧wa‧ra

Noun

biwara (plural biwara-biwara)

  1. beaver

Further reading

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