kata sifat
Indonesian
Etymology
- From Malay kata sifat.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˌkata ˈsifat/ [ˌka.t̪a ˈsi.fat̪̚]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ifat
- Syllabification: ka‧ta si‧fat
Noun
kata sifat (plural kata-kata sifat)
- (linguistics) adjective
- Synonym: adjektiva
Further reading
- “kata sifat”, 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
Malay
Etymology
kata + sifat. Loaned from Arabic صِفَة (ṣifa, “adjective”) for adjective sense[1]
Noun
kata sifat (Jawi spelling کات صيفت, plural kata-kata sifat or kata2 sifat)
References
- ^ Versteegh, Kees (September 2020), “Extended grammar: Malay and the Arabic tradition”, in Histoire Épistémologie Langage, volumes 42-1, , pages 13–31