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Noun [Indonesian]

IPA: /biˈola/ [Standard-Indonesian], [biˈo.la] [Standard-Indonesian] Forms: biola-biola [plural]
Rhymes: -ola Etymology: Inherited from Malay biola, from Portuguese viola, from Old Galician-Portuguese viola, from Old Occitan viola, from Medieval Latin vitula, from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory. Semantic loan from Dutch viool and English violin for soprano-voiced bowed string musical instrument sense. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|id|ms|biola|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Malay biola, {{inh+|id|ms|biola}} Inherited from Malay biola, {{der|id|pt|viola}} Portuguese viola, {{der|id|roa-opt|viola}} Old Galician-Portuguese viola, {{der|id|pro|viola}} Old Occitan viola, {{der|id|la-med|vitula}} Medieval Latin vitula, {{semantic loan|id|nl|viool}} Semantic loan from Dutch viool, {{sl|id|en|violin|notext=1}} English violin Head templates: {{id-noun}} biola (plural biola-biola)
  1. (music) violin: A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family Derived forms: biola listrik (english: electric violin), les biola Derived forms (Affixafions): berbiola (english: to play a violin), membiola

Noun [Malay]

IPA: /ˈbiolə/ (note: schwa-variety), [ˈbjo.lə] (note: schwa-variety), /ˈbiola/ (note: /a/-variety, Literary Standard), [ˈbjo.la] (note: /a/-variety, Literary Standard) Forms: بيولا [Jawi], biola-biola [plural], biola² [plural]
Rhymes: -lə, -ə, -la, -a Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese viola, from Old Galician-Portuguese viola, from Old Occitan viola, from Medieval Latin vitula, from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory. Semantic loan from English violin. Etymology templates: {{bor+|ms|pt|viola}} Borrowed from Portuguese viola, {{der|ms|roa-opt|viola}} Old Galician-Portuguese viola, {{der|ms|pro|viola}} Old Occitan viola, {{der|ms|la-med|vitula}} Medieval Latin vitula, {{semantic loan|ms|en|violin}} Semantic loan from English violin Head templates: {{ms-noun|j=بيولا}} biola (Jawi spelling بيولا, plural biola-biola or biola²), {{tlb|ms|musical instrument|string instrument}} (music)
  1. violin Derived forms (Affixations): berbiola (english: to play a violin) Derived forms (Compounds): biola elektrik (english: electric violin)

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.