akhlak
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay akhlak, from Classical Malay اخلاق (akhlak), from Arabic أَخْلَاق (ʾaḵlāq), plural form of خُلُق (ḵuluq, “character; morals, morality”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaxlaʔ/
- Rhymes: -laʔ, -aʔ, -ʔ
- Hyphenation: akh‧lak
Noun
akhlak (first-person possessive akhlakku, second-person possessive akhlakmu, third-person possessive akhlaknya)
- character, morals, ethics
- Synonyms: budi pekerti, kelakuan
Alternative forms
- ahlak,
- akhlaq
Derived terms
- berakhlak
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
- “akhlak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.