indah

indah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦃ (indah), from Old Javanese indah.

Adjective

indah

1. beautiful, lovely, attractive, fine, precious

Further reading

• “indah” 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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Javanese

Alternative forms

Other scripts
Carakan	ꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦃ
Roman	indah

Etymology

From Old Javanese indah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈīn.dɑːh]
• Hyphenation: in‧dah

Verb

indah

1. hear, listen

Adjective

indah

1. being different, extraordinary beauty

Related terms

• endah

 

Descendants

• Banyumasan: indah
• → Betawi: indah
• → Indonesian: indah
• → Malay: indah

References

• “[ indah]” in Bausastra Jawa, Yogyakarta: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Yogyakarta].

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Malay

Etymology

From Javanese ꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦃ (indah), from Old Javanese indah.

Adjective

indah (Jawi spelling اينده‎)

1. beautiful, lovely, attractive, fine, precious

   indah permai ― very beautiful

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• pengindah (“beautifier”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• pengindahan (“beautification”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
• keindahan (“beauty”) [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• indah-indah [reduplication] (redup)
• seindah (“as beautiful as”) [comparability] (se-)
• perindah (“to decorate”) [causative passive] (peR-)
• memperindah (“to embellish”) [causative passive + agent focus] (peR- + meN-)
• diperindah (“to be beautified”) [causative passive + patient focus] (peR- + di-)
• indahkan (“to treat or regard as precious”) [causative benefactive] (-kan)
• indahi [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
• mengindahkan (“to beautify”) [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• diindahkan (“to be beautified”) [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
• terindah (“the most beautiful”) [agentless action] (teR-)

Further reading

• “indah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈīn.dɑːh]
• Hyphenation: in‧dah

Verb

indah

1. hear, listen
   • 1982, P.J. Zoetmulder, S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary, Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff:

     hear! listen! (in addressing gods and persons of high rank)

Adjective

indah

1. being different, extraordinary beauty
   • 1982, P.J. Zoetmulder, S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary, Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff:

     out of the ordinary, unusual, extraordinary, striking, astounding, extraordinarily beautiful (etc); it is amazing!

Related terms

• endah

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦢꦃ (indah)
  • Banyumasan: indah
• ⇒ Betawi: indah
• ⇒ Indonesian: indah
• ⇒ Malay: indah
• Osing: indah
• Tengger: indah

References