sunah
Indonesian
Etymology
From Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “a recommended practice”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsunah]
- Hyphenation: su‧nah
Noun
sunah (plural sunah-sunah, first-person possessive sunahku, second-person possessive sunahmu, third-person possessive sunahnya)
- habit, custom
- Synonym: kebiasaan
- (Islam) a traditional practice for which there is a divine reward but for whose omission there is no punishment, a supererogatory act.
- (Islam) a religiously canonized tradition or practice which attributed to Islamic religious figures (typically Prophet Muhammad).
- Synonym: hadis
Alternative forms
- sunat, sunnah
Affixed terms
- disunahkan
- menyunahkan
Compounds
- sunah nabi
- sunah rasul
Further reading
- “sunah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.