almarhum
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay [Term?], from Classical Malay المرحوم (almarhum), مرحوم (marhum), from Arabic اَلْمَرْحُوْمُ (al-marḥuwmu), مَرْحُوم (marḥūm).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈmarhʊm/
- Rhymes: -hʊm, -ʊm, -m
- Hyphenation: al‧mar‧hum
Noun
almarhum (plural almarhum-almarhum, first-person possessive almarhumku, second-person possessive almarhummu, third-person possessive almarhumnya)
- late (deceased)
Alternative forms
- marhum
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
- “almarhum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.