amanat
English
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Fur traders from the Caucasus, Khiva, Bukhara and Tashkent at a wholesale fair in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1914
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian амана́т (amanát, “hostage”), via a Turkic language from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʾamāna, “surety”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æməˈnɑːt/
- Hyphenation: a‧ma‧nat
Noun
amanat (plural amanats or amanaty)
- (historical) A Native American hostage taken by Russian colonists.
- 1990, Richard A. Pierce, Russian America: A Biographical Dictionary, page xvii:
- Kuznetsov — his Aleut name is unknown — had been given to Russian fur traders as an amanat (hostage).
- 2002, European Review of Native American Studies:
- According to Davydov (1812, 2:54, 132), the chief of the Ugalakhmiut Eyak specially came to Kodiak for a meeting with his son, who was an amanat among the Russians.
- 2005, Grinev, The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867, page 260:
- Toion Fedor accepted Orthodoxy in the winter of 1795–96 when he lived at Kodiak as an amanat.
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay amanat, from Classical Malay امانت (amanat), from Classical Persian امانت (amānat), from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʾamāna).[1] Doublet of amanah.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈamanat̚/
- Rhymes: -nat, -at, -t
- Hyphenation: ama‧nat
Noun
amanat (plural amanat-amanat, first-person possessive amanatku, second-person possessive amanatmu, third-person possessive amanatnya)
- message:
- (communication, linguistics) a communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
- amanat anggaran ― budget message
- Synonym: pesan
- (literature) an underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
- Synonym: pesan
- (communication, linguistics) a communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
- statement
- Synonym: keterangan
- instruction; advice; guidance
- Synonym: wejangan
Derived terms
- beramanat
- diamanati
- diamanatkan
- mengamanati
- mengamanatkan
- pengamanatan
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
- “amanat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.