kaidah
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay kaidah (Standard Malay kaédah), from Arabic قَاعِدَة (qāʿida).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kaˈidah]
- Hyphenation: ka‧i‧dah
Noun
kaidah (plural kaidah-kaidah, first-person possessive kaidahku, second-person possessive kaidahmu, third-person possessive kaidahnya)
- rule:
- (biology, chemistry, economics, linguistics, physics) A regulation, law, guideline.
- (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
- (medicine) method
- (philosophy) maxim
Synonyms
- (biology): aturan
Further reading
- “kaidah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.