risalah
English
Noun
risalah (plural risalahs)
- Alternative form of ressala
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay risalah, from Arabic رِسَالَة (risāla, “message, letter”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riˈsalah/
- Rhymes: -lah, -ah, -h
- Hyphenation: ri‧sa‧lah
Noun
risalah (plural risalah-risalah, first-person possessive risalahku, second-person possessive risalahmu, third-person possessive risalahnya)
- (archaic) letter, message.
- circular (letter)
- Synonym: selebaran
- treatise, paper, essay.
- minutes, proceeding
- Synonyms: laporan, notula
Derived terms
- perisalah
- risalah rapat
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
- “risalah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.