filsafat
Indonesian
Etymology
- From Arabic فَلْسَفَات (falsafāt), فَلْسَفَة (falsafa), either constructed based on فَيْلَسُوف (faylasūf, “philosopher”),[1] or based directly on Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía), compounded from φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) + σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”). Doublet of falsafah and filosofi.
- First vowel changed influenced by filosofi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɪlˈsa.fat̚]
- Rhymes: -fat, -at, -t
- Hyphenation: fil‧sa‧fat
Noun
filsafat (first-person possessive filsafatku, second-person possessive filsafatmu, third-person possessive filsafatnya)
- philosophy,
- an academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
- a view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
- Synonym: falsafah
Derived terms
- berfilsafat
Related terms
- falsafah
- filsuf
References
- 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
- “filsafat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Noun
filsafat (plural filsafat-filsafat, informal 1st possessive filsafatku, 2nd possessive filsafatmu, 3rd possessive filsafatnya)
- (Indonesia) philosophy (academic discipline)
Synonyms
- falsafah