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bima
Wiktionary
n. (lb en Judaism) The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the rabbi stands.
Wikipedia
Bima ( Indonesia: Kota Bima) is a city on the eastern coast of the island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia's province West Nusa Tenggara. It is the largest city on the island of Sumbawa, with a population of 142,443 at the 2010 Census, but the latest official estimate (as at January 2014) is 148,984. It is separate from (but surrounded by) the adjoining Regency of Bima which had a population of 407,636 at the 2010 Census.
The people of Bima and the entire eastern side of Sumbawa speak what is known as Bima language ( Indonesia: Bahasa Bima ; Bima: Nggahi Mbojo). From 1620 to 1958 it was the capital of the Bima Sultanate. In modern times, Bima is the largest regional and economic hub of Eastern Sumbawa with transmigrants from other parts of Indonesia, especially Java, Bali, and Lombok. It has a central downtown commercial zone. It is home to the Sultan Salahuddin mosque and the Sultan Salahuddin museum (former Bima Sultanate palace). It is connected by provincial road to Dompu and Sape.
Bima may stand for:
- A former state in Indonesia and its people, language, location:
- Bima, a city in Indonesia.
- Sultanate of Bima, a former sultanate in Indonesia
- Bima Regency, a regency surrounding the city of Bima.
- Bahasa Bima, the language of Bima.
- Bima ethnicity Suku Bima
- Other:
- Bima, Nepal, a village in Nepal.
- BIMA at Brandeis University, a Jewish summer program.
- BImA, Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben, a German government agency.
- The British Interactive Media Association
- Bima (train), an express train in Indonesia from Jakarta to Surabaya via Yogyakarta
- BIMA Satria Garuda, an Indonesian tokusatsu series.
- Bema (also spelled Bimah), a raised platform or stage in a Jewish synagogue or an Eastern Christian church
Usage examples of "bima".
On the same day that Atoon arrived in Ranganar, prince Bima Singa of Gamartha stood in an ante chamber, waiting.
This was not the Dapur, but behind Bima a light screen, veiled with draperies, had been put across the room as a mark of respect.
On the Peninsula prince Bima and Atoon moved about, according to the Wave bulletins, like tom-cats getting ready to fight.
The suggestion was that Bima should give the renegades one last chance.
To Bima the causeway people were not a last stand, but a place for a decisive stroke to end the bloodshed.
A moment of intense quietness, then Bima sighed, and the balance dropped.
Mount Washington in the late afternoon, between Bima and Arcedes, and two hundred years of rivalry will be settled.
While Aaron recites the responsive prayers without glancing at his prayer book, Eliza focuses on a spot on the bima between Rabbi Mayer and her father and tries to block out the robotic monotone of the congregation reading as one.
He is contemplatively sucking on a sugar flower when he decides that what he experienced on the bima was God.
He knows that what he felt on the bima was an experience denied to many.
The auditorium is Beth Amicha on a gargantuan scale, its bima reaching twenty feet into the air.
Her number is torn from her neck and she is tossed off the bima into a teeming sea of heads and hands, where her mouth is held open, her old teeth are ripped out, and a set of smaller, sharper teeth is shoved in.