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daya

Pronunciation: /ˈdaja/

“daya” is an Indonesian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. physical force or strength
  2. electricity or a supply of electricity
  3. a measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy, a measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time
  4. the strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image
  5. trick
  6. ability
  7. effort
  8. used only in the noun phrase barat daya (“southwest”)

Etymology

From Malay daya, probably from one of which: # Proto-Malayic *daya (“to trick, to fool”) # Sanskrit उदय (udaya, “rise, result”) # Old Javanese daya (“inner feelings; heart”), from Pali hadaya (“feeling”, literally “heart”), from Sanskrit हृदय (hṛdaya, “soul, mind, spirit”, literally “heart”) # Old Javanese daya, dāya, deya (“(future) act; plan”), de- (“action; condition; by”); aya, haya, ayah…

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