falsafah

falsafah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay falsafah, from Classical Malay falsafah, from Arabic فَلْسَفَات‎‎ (falsafāt), فَلْسَفَة‎ (falsafa),[1] either constructed based on فَيْلَسُوف‎ (faylasūf, “philosopher”), or based directly on Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía), compounded from φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) +‎ σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”). Doublet of filosofi and filsafat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [falˈsa.fah]
• Rhymes: -fah, -ah, -h
• Hyphenation: fal‧sa‧fah

Noun

falsafah (first-person possessive falsafahku, second-person possessive falsafahmu, third-person possessive falsafahnya)

1. philosophy: a view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.

   Synonyms: filsafat, pandangan hidup

Related terms

• filosofi
• filsafat
• filsuf

 

References

1. Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, OCLC 29420936

Further reading

• “falsafah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

From Arabic فَلْسَفَة‎ (falsafa), either constructed based on فَيْلَسُوف‎ (faylasūf, “philosopher”), or based directly on Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía), compounded from φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) +‎ σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /falsafah/
• Rhymes: -afah, -fah, -ah

• Audio (MY)

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Noun

falsafah (Jawi spelling فلسفه‎, plural falsafah-falsafah, informal 1st possessive falsafahku, 2nd possessive falsafahmu, 3rd possessive falsafahnya)

1. philosophy (academic discipline)

Synonyms

• (Indonesia) filsafat