jadi

• jaadi

jadi (uncountable)

1. (Asia) Pickled fish.

• DJIA

jadi

1. become, come about, reach a successful conclusion.

   Festival Hutan Hujan Sedunia (RWMF) ke-13 dipenyadika malam hari empat digulu 20 ra­ban pemusik enggau 200 iku pengarang berita ari serata dunya.

   The 13th edition of the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) came about on Thursday night where 20 musicians and 200 news reporters from around the world assembled.

• Richards, Anthony. An Iban-English Dictionary, Volume 1 Clarendon Press. 1981.
• Bisi 20 raban pemusik dunya datai enggau RWMF ke-13 The Borneo Post. 10 July 2010.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒadi/ [ˈd͡ʒa.di]
• Rhymes: -adi
• Syllabification: ja‧di

From Malay jadi, from either:

• Proto-Malayic *jadi, *maka-jadi (“become, for, to”). Cognate with Malagasy zary, and Old Javanese dadi (“to become”) (compare Javanese ꦢꦢꦶ (dadi)),^[1] or
• Sanskrit जाति (jāti, “birth”) or जात (jāta, “become”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of jata, jati, jelata, and gen.

jadi

1. so (in order that, for that reason)

jadi (active menjadi)

1. to become (to come into being)
2. to be
   • 2025 July 24, Kompas.id‎^[1]:

     Harsh Vardhan Jain (47) ditangkap polisi karena melancarkan penipuan dengan berpura-pura menjadi diplomat.

     Harsh Vardhan Jain (47) was arrested by the police for carrying out fraud by pretending to be a diplomat.

3. to succeed

   Synonym: berhasil

4. to be completed

   Synonym: diselesaikan

5. (stative) to be ready for use

   Synonym: siap

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْجَدْي (al-jady, “young goat, Capricorn”).

Jadi

1. (astrology, astronomy) Capricorn

   Synonyms: Kaprikornus, Makara

• “jadi”, 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

• From Sanskrit जाति (jāti, “birth”). Doublet of jati and jelata.
• Or probably cognate with Old Javanese dadi (“to become”) (compare Javanese ꦢꦢꦶ (dadi)).^[1]
• From Proto-Malayic *jadi. Cognate with Malagasy zary.

• (Baku, schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒadi/ [ˈd͡ʒa.di]
• Rhymes: -adi, -di, -i
• Hyphenation: ja‧di

jadi (Jawi spelling جادي)

menjadi

1. to become, to be something
2. to come into being, to appear, to exist

   Synonyms: muncul, terbit

3. to be born

   Synonym: lahir

4. to happen

   Synonym: berlaku

5. (of processes, methods) to work, to succeed

   Synonyms: jalan, berkesan, berjaya

jadi (Jawi spelling جادي)

1. so; therefore; thus; consequently.

   Synonyms: maka, oleh itu

   Beri saya wang, jadi saya dapat membeli sebuah buku komik

   Give me money, so I can buy a comic

   Jadi, apa keputusan awak?

   So, what is your decision?

• Indonesian: jadi
• → Tagalog: yari ?

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “جادي djadi”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 97
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “جادي jadi”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 213
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “jadi”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 434

• “jadi”, in Kamus Dewan [The Institute Dictionary] (in Malay), Fourth edition, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2005, →ISBN
• "jadi" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Borrowed from Arabic جَدّ (jadd, literally “grandfather”).^[1]

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jadi class IX (plural jadi class X)

1. tradition
2. lineage, ancestry, genealogy

From Malay jadi, from Sanskrit जाति (jāti).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒa.d̪i/

jadi

1. so, therefore

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): [hʷaɾ̠i]

jadi

1. white clay

• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005), Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 191: “jadi”
• Guss, David M. (1989), To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 51: “fade”