Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦶꦢꦾ (widya, “knowledge; body scrub, fragrance”), from Old Javanese widyā (“knowledge, science, learning; learned”), from Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge; science”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwid.ja/, [ˈwit̪̚.ja]
• Rhymes: -ja
• Hyphenation: wi‧dya

widya (plural widya-widya)

1. science

   Synonym: ilmu pengetahuan

• “widya”, 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

widya

1. romanization of ꦮꦶꦢꦾ

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge”), compare with Javanese ꦮꦶꦢꦾ (widya) and Eastern Cham ꨝꨪꨖꨪ. Popularized as the name of a nationally distributed school magazine in Malaysia from the 1970s to the 1980s.^[1]

widya (plural widya-widya or widya²)

1. (Malaysia, uncommon) science