kebijaksanaan
Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed ke- + bijaksana + -an, from Malay kebijaksanaan.
- Semantic loan from Javanese ꦮꦶꦕꦏ꧀ꦱꦤ (wicaksana) for the sense of policy, introduced in The Speech of President Sukarno, 28 December 1964 and reached the peak during the Suharto administration.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəbid͡ʒaksaˈnaan/
- Hyphenation: kê‧bi‧jak‧sa‧na‧an
- Rhymes: -an, -n
Noun
kêbijaksanaan (plural kebijaksanaan-kebijaksanaan, first-person possessive kebijaksanaanku, second-person possessive kebijaksanaanmu, third-person possessive kebijaksanaannya)
- wisdom
- cleverness
- Synonyms: kepandaian, kecakapan
- (dated, government) policy, measure
Synonyms
(policy, measure):
- amanat
- garis haluan
- kebijaksanaan
- mandat
- manifesto
- polisi (Standard Malay)
- politik
References
- Zulfa Sakhiyya (2021-09-06), “Problematizing policy: a semantic history of the word ‘policy’ in the Indonesian language”, in Critical Policy Studies, DOI:, ISSN 1946-0171, page 1–16
Further reading
- “kebijaksanaan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.