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  • Asking Christians to call god 'betara' would be akin to although not precisely, asking Muslims to call god Odin.

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  • I personally have never encountered the word khalik and betara but that shows how, even for a native speaker of Malay, the full breadth of the language is larger, as it should typically be, than everyday popular vocabulary bank.

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  • As far as words like dewa and betara go, if my tenuous knowledge of Malaysian folklore goes, they refer not so much to a god, let alone a monotheistic god but to deities or even spirits, monsters, supernatural creatures et al which fall more under paganistic or animistic beliefs.

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  • Kamus Dwibahasa Bahasa Inggeris-Bahasa Malaysia adds another one and that is betara.

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