mahkamah
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay mahkamah, from Classical Malay mahkamah, from Arabic مَحْكَمَة (maḥkama, “court”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mahˈkamah]
- Rhymes: -mah, -ah, -h
- Hyphenation: mah‧ka‧mah
Noun
mahkamah (plural mahkamah-mahkamah, first-person possessive mahkamahku, second-person possessive mahkamahmu, third-person possessive mahkamahnya)
- (law) court:
- Synonyms: meja hijau, pengadilan
- the administration of law.
- the persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
- the session of a judicial assembly. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
Usage notes
The term usually used for highest tier court, preferred used if the court only have one tier.
Compounds
- mahkamah agung
- mahkamah agung internasional
- mahkamah dunia
- mahkamah internasional tetap
- mahkamah islam tinggi
- mahkamah konstitusi
- mahkamah militer
- mahkamah syariah
- mahkamah syariah provinsi
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
- “mahkamah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَحْكَمَة (maḥkama, “court”).
Noun
mahkamah (Jawi spelling محکمه, plural mahkamah-mahkamah, informal 1st possessive mahkamahku, 2nd possessive mahkamahmu, 3rd possessive mahkamahnya)
- (law) court; tribunal
Further reading
- “mahkamah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.