mustahik
Indonesian
Etymology
From Arabic مُسْتَحِقّ (mustaḥiqq, “deserving; one who deserves”), from the active participle of اِسْتَحَقَّ (istaḥaqqa).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʊsˈtahɪk̚/
- Rhymes: -hɪk, -ɪk, -k
- Hyphenation: mus‧ta‧hik
Noun
mustahik (first-person possessive mustahikku, second-person possessive mustahikmu, third-person possessive mustahiknya)
- one who deserves; deserver
Related terms
- mustahak
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
- “mustahik” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.