mukadimah
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مُقَدِّمَة (muqaddima, “front part, forefront, lead; introduction, preface, prelude; prologue; premise”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /mukaˈdimah/ [mu.kaˈdi.mah]
- Rhymes: -imah
- Syllabification: mu‧ka‧di‧mah
Noun
mukadimah (plural mukadimah-mukadimah)
- preamble (short statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute)
- Synonyms: pendahuluan, preambul
Derived terms
- mukadimah tahlil
Further reading
- “mukadimah”, 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