"Merdeka" meaning in All languages combined

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          "word": "Merdeka Day"
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          "ref": "1946 April, P. Madhavan Nair, “Indonesia: The Land of Promise”, in Kedar Nath Chatterji, editor, The Modern Review, volume LXXIX, number 4 (number 472 overall), Calcutta, West Bengal: Nibaran Chandra Das, Prabasi Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 292, column 1:",
          "text": "The Indonesian struggle is being watched with intense interest and sympathy by all the subject peoples of Asia who are struggling for national independence. Their battle-cry ‘Merdeka’ which means freedom resounds throughout the length and breadth of Asia.",
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          "ref": "1957 August–September, D[onald] C[harles] MacGillivray, High Commissioner, Federation of Malaya, “Merdeka Messages”, in Ho Seng Ong, editor, Methodist Message: Official Publication of the Methodist Church, Southeastern Asia, volume 61, number 6, Singapore: Methodist Church, Southeastern Asia, →OCLC, page 143:",
          "text": "August 31st, 1957, the day on which the Federation of Malaya will achieve independence within the British Commonwealth, will be a time for rejoicing that Malaya has safely achieved Merdeka by peaceful means; […]",
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          "ref": "1972, Benedict R[ichard] O’G[orman] Anderson, “The Buchō Cabinet and Its Audiences”, in Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944–1946, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 117:",
          "text": "Animating these myriad proclamations of independence were the ideas of merdeka (freedom) and of the formless solidarity of the nation, not the controlling, organized authority of the center.",
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          "ref": "2011 March, Mahathir Mohamad, “Vision 2020”, in A Doctor in the House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: MPH Group Publishing, published April 2011, →ISBN, page 598:",
          "text": "We had achieved Merdeka, our Independence, in political terms and Malaysia had established its sovereignty. As individuals and as a society we had to achieve complete mental and psychological merdeka too. We had to stand up on our own terms and affirm our character and values.",
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