zahid

Arabic زَاهِد (zāhid)

zahid (plural zahids or zuhhad)

1. (Islam) An ascetic.

Inherited from Malay zahid, from Arabic زَاهِد (zāhid).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈzahid/ [ˈza.hɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ahid
• Syllabification: za‧hid
• Homophone: Zahid

zahid (plural zahid-zahid)

1. pious man
2. ascetic (one who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence)

   Synonyms: aulia, asket, petapa, pertapa

• “zahid”, 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