[bah-hah-suh] 
| official name of the Indonesian language. |
[in-duh-nee-zhuhn, -shuhn, -zee-uhn, -doh-] | 1. | a member of the ethnic group consisting of the natives of Indonesia, the Filipinos, and the Malays of Malaysia. |
| 2. | a member of a population supposed to have been resident in the Malay Archipelago before the Malays, and believed to constitute one element of the present mixed population of Malaysia and perhaps Polynesia. |
| 3. | Official name, Bahasa Indonesia. an Indonesian language that is based on the form of Malay spoken in Java and has the status of official language in the Republic of Indonesia. |
| 4. | the westernmost branch of the Austronesian family of languages, including Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Malagasy. |
| 5. | of or pertaining to the Malay Archipelago. |
| 6. | of or pertaining to Indonesia, the Indonesians, or their languages. |
| Ba·ha·sa Indonesia (bä-hä'sə) n. See Indonesian. [Indonesian, Indonesian language, from Sanskrit bhāṣā, speech, language.] |
| In·do·ne·sian (ĭn'də-nē'zhən, -shən) n.
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