sauvinisme
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch chauvinisme, from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. Reconstructed as sauvinis + -isme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sauviˈnɪsmə]
- Hyphenation: sau‧vi‧nis‧mê
Noun
sauvinisme (first-person possessive sauvinismeku, second-person possessive sauvinismemu, third-person possessive sauvinismenya)
- (politics) chauvinism
Alternative forms
- cauvinisme (Standard Malay)
Related terms
- sauvinis
Further reading
- “sauvinisme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.